1995 Pleasant Company Girl of Today, HTF#9 doll, 4 original Outfits, Accessories

This is the 1995 collection of Pleasant Company's line of dolls and accessories made to represent current fashion, called Girls of Today. Original dolls with varying skin, hair and eye color. This doll is Hard to Find original number 9, fair completion, light brown hair and grey eyes. She was available for less than 10 years.

She looked like Molly with the same hair color and eyes, though the wigs were different. This doll is always on the list of 20 hard to find American Girl dolls. One, because of the short time available and the second because the grey eyes are prone to get silver eyes.

Many of the original dolls were thrown away by their owners when this happened. The doll is wearing the first "Meet the doll" outfit available in 1995 called the Mix and Match Outfit and was replaced the next year. It has a large white shirt, magenta T-shirt, leggings and underwear, a reversible denim vast with magenta print inside and slip on black shoes. The doll came with a six-book writing set in the design of the Historical central series. There are 6 blank books, and an instruction booklet for each one. Also included is a blue plastic letter template.

These are almost always gone. 4 additional outfits were introduced in 1995 to go with this line of dolls, Blue Jeans Basics 1, Varsity Jacket and Cap, Slumber Shirt & Mini Bear, and The Nutcracker Ballet Costume. The Blue Jeans Basics includes blue jeans with a belt, red T-shirt, yellow socks and high top tennis shoes. Made to go with the Jeans was the purple varsity Jacket & Cap.

An accessory for this was the School Gear. It was a purple backpack containing a notebook cover, spiral notebook, pencil, report card, calculator and a math book. The red Slumber shirt came with a matching headband, and a mini Miss AG bear also dressed in a sleep slumber shirt. The last outfit was the pink nutcracker Ballet Costume. It contains the one piece top and tutu, iridescent wings, a tiara, a wand, slippers, and tights.

Included is the hard to find Nutcracker Ballet program. Introduced on the same page as the 4 outfits were the new Mini version of The Historic dolls. They were advertised as dolls for your American Girl of Today. The 5 dolls, Samantha, Molly, Kirsten, Felicity and Addy came in the white pinstripe box with the 5 cameo slip off band like the large version of the dolls. But in 1995, the box came inside an additional white box with the American Girl of Today slip off band.

This set of double boxes is a rare find. This original doll has the glass eyes and wig.

The dolls were changed by Mattel in 2000 to painted eyes and rooted hair. The mini doll comes with her mini book, and mini Meet Samantha pamphlet.

The doll, the 4 outfits, the meet accessories, the school supplies and the mini doll all come in white American Girl of Today boxes. The doll box is missing its band. I did not try to match codes on the boxes with the contents. I just used boxes that were appropriate for the item except for the mini doll which is the original box and band.