Snow White Pet Costumes

Just in time for Halloween, it's a Snow White puppy costume for the "trick-or-treating" pet lover. Includes doggie dress and red bow hair clip. Available in pet sizes XS, S and M. Disney licensed. Original retail price $26.00 (USD).

Image via Costume Kingdom

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Collared Snow White bodice for the larger discerning dog. Includes bodice, sleeves, cape and headband. Disney licensed. Originally $11.99.

Image via buycostumes.com.

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This doggie dress features a royal blue and white striped bodice, a ruffled yellow skirt, and two red bows. Disney licensed. Originally $16.99.

Image via Tea Cups Puppies.

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And finally, the dress that can turn any frumpy old pup into a princess. Sleeved bodice, frilly dress and red ribbons. Disney licensed. Original retail price $19.99.

Image via Pet Coupons and Deals.

Fan Art to Cosplay for Snow White Costume

Artist Claire Hummel, aka shoomlah, has created a series of impressive illustrations featuring the Disney princesses in historical dress. Her Snow White design, for instance, is set in 16th century Germany. She says on her deviantArt page, "I took a wide swath from about 1500-1530 to come up with something that still maintained the spirit of the original design...Honestly? I just wanted to draw those damn slashed sleeves. I want them SO BAD."

Image copyright Claire Hummel

Claire says she receives requests from cosplayers asking permission to re-create her dress designs, though no one has ever sent her a photo of a finished dress...until now. Here's a glowing example from costumer Chibirinoa who made the outfit for Halloween this year.

 

Image copyright Chibirinoa

Re-creating Hummel's illustrated design is an amazing feat in itself. Making it work in the real world is something else entirely. Yet Chibirinoa seems to have done just that. From her website...

Snood: The snood was one of the most annoying parts of this costume. It's made of a bunch of trim with hand sewn pearls between the diamonds and sewn down to bias tape with elastic strung through it. I'm wearing two wigs just to get the net full enough!

Bodice: The main part of the bodice is suede and has center panel embroidery that I did free motion on my machine. The gold on the sleeves was also embroidered with zig zag stitching to mimic the artwork. The rest of the fabrics are a loose weave boucle and a cotton eyelet. The back laces up with gold laces.

Skirt: the skirt is casa collection satin with the jacquard band and bias tape. The skirt had to have shoulder straps to keep it sitting high enough on my waist!

Muchas gracias to Hana Street for the notice on this.

Frosted Glass Figurines

Dutch Disney collector H.P. Hogenboom was given this Dopey frosted glass figurine when he was a child. It stands about 4.13" (105mm) tall and has a "Walt Disney Productions" imprint along the base. Though, not much else was known about the figure.

Back in the 1980s, a series of Snow White and Dwarf frosted glass figurines were manufactured, probably in Italy. But these figures typically came with painted highlights. This Dopey appeared to be unique because it had none.

I found a Snow White piece (5.75" tall) featured in the 2007 Hake's Price Guide to Disney Collectibles. It shows the painted highlights seen in the other figurines in this series.

Not much info is available online about these figures, but recently, I came across this unpainted Snow White on ebay. Looks to be the same mold as the one above but with no highlights. It now seems possible that there were two separate releases of these figurines, painted and unpainted.

Snow image via beemaw.

A couple of the painted dwarfs were found online earlier in the year. Grumpy measures 4.875"" high...

Doc clocks in at about the same height with similar highlights...

Grumpy and Doc images via Mid Century Gallery.

Were all seven of the dwarfs created for this series? Who was the manufacturer? There's still more research to do.

The Art of the "Unusual" Disney Princess

Haunted Mansion Snow White by Robert Farrell, digital media.

Some of the more strange, yet unique Snow White artwork found in The Art of the Disney Princess book from Disney Editions, 2009. See earlier post for additional images.

Title Page

Snow White by Timothy Palin, digital media.

 Snow White by Alpesh Patel, digital media.

Snow White by Rebbecca Wong, watercolor, gouache and ink on watercolor paper.

Snow White by Dan Beltran, digital media.

Snow White by Katie Weekes, digital media.

Snow White by Ming Ong, acrylic on wood.

 Snow White by Jeff Shelly; watercolor, gouache and digital media.
All images copyright Disney Editions.

Disney Animators' Collection - Snow White Doll

In the previous post, we saw Snow White as an infant. Now she's a toddler.

Item No. 6070040580050P

Created under the guidance of Walt Disney Studio's master animators Glen Keane and Mark Henn, the new Disney Animators' Collection is the re-imagining of 10 different Disney heroines as toddler dolls.

Each doll stands 16'' tall. Retail price: $24.95 (USD). Currently available from the Disney Store.

The other dolls in the collection...

All images copyright Disney Store

75th Anniversary Baby Dolls

Prepare yourself. With the coming 75th anniversary in 2012 of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it's a certainty that we'll be seeing loads of commemorative items. Here's a look at the first dolls to be created for this milestone.

The Ashton-Drake Galleries has produced the It's Off To Sleep We Go collection. Honoring the 75th anniversary, this set features Snow White and the Dwarfs as...uh...baby dolls. A bit odd, but I have to admit, the facial expressions on some of these are quite good. Created by artist Cheryl Hill, the miniature figures are handcrafted in resin, and each measures about 6" tall (15.2 cm).

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Through a subscription plan, each doll is sold separately starting with the first issue, Happy. A new figure is then shipped to you about every month or two. Price per doll is $39.99 (USD) + $7.99 shipping. A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies each one.

All images copyright Ashton-Drake Galleries and Disney

Snow White in Paris

Collector and enthusiast Disney Showcase Key took a trip to Paris and the Disneyland Resort this past June. As he wandered the sites, his camera snapped photos of all things Snow White. Here's a look at a few of the images he saw...

Before arriving at the parks, DSK stopped into the Disney Store on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

Disney Store outside facade via Waymarking.com.

All other images courtesy of Disney Showcase Key unless noted.

In a chamber off the central hub of the store, we find a mural of Dopey as he sneaks up the cottage stairs. It's bordered on either side by a portrait of the princess and the Old Witch.

Tucked away in another room, a Snow White portrait shares space with Lilo and Cinderella.

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DSK stayed at the Disneyland Hotel which is located over the entrance to Disneyland Park.

The Bob Baker Queen and Witch marionettes (from earlier post) are on display in the hotel lobby.

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Inside Disneyland Park, DSK stopped into Walt's Restaurant on Main Street.

 Walt's Restaurant. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Among the other terrific theming found within the restaurant is this framed Tenggren lithography.

And a sculpture under glass of Grumpy (Grincheux) at his organ.

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A trip to Disneyland Paris would not be complete without a visit to Snow White's Scary Adventures.

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And a visit to the La Chaumière des Sept Nains, The Thatched Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs--a gift shop located in Fantasyland next door to the Scary Adventures attraction.

Special thanks to Disney Showcase Key for sharing his Snow White photos from Disneyland Paris.