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Do Maplelea Clothes Fit American Girl Dolls? Part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american girl, charlsea, maplelea on January 27, 2016| 3 Comments »

I have recently declared myself Maplelea’s biggest fan. I have all 7 characters and a Maplelea Friend doll, and a whole bunch of outfits. My American Girl dolls love having these Canadian friends, but for the most part, these 2 groups do not share clothes in my house. They just don’t have a need to. The American Girls have their clothes, and the Maplelea girls have their clothes. The end.

But I realize that there are other people who want their doll clothes to fit their entire dolly family, so I thought it might be a nice time to have the American Girl dolls try on the Maplelea outfits, and share my results. It will take me a while to get through all the outfits, but here’s a start. Let’s start with the smallest Maplelea collection (so far), that of the newest Maplelea character Charlsea.

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This first photo shows McKenna in the outfit Charlsea comes in (sadly not available without the purchase of a Charlsea doll), Chrissa in Charlsea’s Sea Otter Sleepwear, and Lea in the wetsuit from Charlsea’s West Coast Waterwear. These 3 outfits fit wonderfully, including Charlsea’s pink rainboots! The Maplelea feet are entirely different from American Girl feet, so most of the time when the shoes do fit, they still look silly. But the pink rainboots work really well. McKenna is not wearing Charlsea’s tights, because I didn’t want them to stretch out, but they will probably fit fine too because they’re stretchy.

Let’s put in a photo of Lea in Charlsea’s kayak, because that definitely fits dolls of many sizes.

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I didn’t have anyone try on Charlsea’s two-piece swimsuit that comes in the set with the wetsuit, but it’s stretchy, so will fit fine.

Let’s move on to the other 2 outfits not in that first photo: Charlsea’s snowsuit called Weekend at Whistler and Charlsea’s fun outfit called Gulf Island Stylin. Well, they’re not pictured because they don’t fit. Both outfits come with pants with a slim fit, and Maplelea legs are significantly thinner than AG legs. So both pairs of pants are a no-go on American Girl dolls.

Here’s McKenna trying to put on the Gulf Island Stylin pants:
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and the snow pants from Weekend at Whistler:
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She also tried on the jacket from Weekend at Whistler, and the sleeves didn’t quite fit:
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but the jacket still looks pretty cute on McKenna:
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And that’s all for the Charlsea outfits I had last week when I took these photos! This week I got Charlsea’s newest dress called Granville Island Groovy (and last weekend I went to Granville Island…if the outfit had arrived earlier Charlsea totally would have accompanied me, but it didn’t, so she didn’t!) Anyway, it’s a simple shift dress made with a stretch knit, so it will fit a wide variety of dolls. The outfit’s flip flops are another story. I’ll get you a photo of this dress eventually, probably the next time I go to Granville Island!

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