Hello! Today, I’m going to be reviewing an outfit from the collection of Lea Clark, American Girl’s newest GOTY doll: the Rainforest Hike Outfit.
The outfit comes with a T-shirt, cargo pants, hiking boots, a belt, a watch, and a headband. It’s priced at $34.
The white T-shirt has a beautiful butterfly design on it, described by American Girl as a “watercolor butterfly.” The shirt velcros in the back.
Lea’s cropped cargo pants are a grayish-green color. There are parallel lines in the fabric, but you don’t really notice them until you look closer.
There are two nicely sized pockets.
The pocket flaps lift, and there’s enough space to put something small into the pockets.
Functional belt loops go the whole way around the pants.
The striped green belt is not attached to the pants. It closes with a large plastic belt buckle.
The belt is surprisingly long.
A complaint is that little hands might have trouble feeding the belt through the loops. Also, I’ve found it hard to style the belt. The shirt covers it, and the buckle bulges in an unattractive way. Here, let me show you:
With belt.
Without belt.
The outfit in the second image is more pleasing, because the belt isn’t making a lump beneath the shirt. I’ll most likely use the Rainforest Hike Outfit without the belt.
Of course, I could hike (pun intended XD) the shirt up above the belt so that it can be seen, or tuck the shirt into the pants, but I like it better without the belt at all.
Moving on to Lea’s shoes! They are made of a tough, leathery fabric, with thick plastic soles. The hiking boots have beige, pink, and green fabric on them.
Side view.
The boots lace up with a green stretchy rope. In order to put them on, you don’t have to loosen strings or undo velcro or anything like that; the fabric is simply flexible enough to let the doll’s foot slip right in.
Next up, Lea’s watch! It’s made out of hot pink plastic. Clear plastic protects the watch face. There are bumps on the sides of the watch that are supposed to be buttons.
A better look at the watch face.
The watch goes on like the real thing: you have to stick the lime green clasp through one of the holes in the flexible watch strap.
You can even slip the end of the strap through a hard plastic thing that slides back and forth (such great description on my part! *eye roll* But seriously, does anyone know what this thing is called?)!
The Rainforest Hike Outfit also includes a yellow headband. It’s about a centimeter wide, and made of elastic.
There’s a bow on the headband, but I prefer to style it so that the bow is in the back.
Overall, I absolutely love the Rainforest Hike Outfit. It looks amazing on Lea Clark, and I bet it would look great on other American Girl dolls as well.
It’s got a lot of mix-n-match potential! I can see the T-shirt and the cargo pants going with lots of different outfits.
-Loren
I love that outfit! The shirt is so pretty. :) Awesome review!
-Clara
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Thanks, Clara! I know, the shirt is awesome. :)
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:D
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Yay, a review! :D I don’t really like this outfit, just the watch and headband. XD But, the pictures are really pretty! I like the last one the best. <3
And. . . . I looked up what that thing on the watch is called. :roll: It's called a "free loop" (if it slides back and forth), or a "fixed loop" (if it is attached to the watch band). :mrgreen:
~Ms. AGdoll~
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:D Well, we all have different opinions, right? ;) Thanks!
Whoa! It really does have a name? Cool! Thanks for looking it up. :)
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You’re welcome! :lol:
~Ms. AGdoll~
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I like your review style, Loren. Very authentic :). Would love to feature your reviews in our weekly curated email digest that goes out to thousands of people.
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Thank you! Wow, really? Well, you’re welcome to do that, as long as you give me credit and link back to my blog. :)
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Sure thing :). If you let me know your email we’ll send the details. Thanks!
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You can reach me through the “Contact Me” page at the top of my blog.
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Sent :)
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Great review. :)
-Leah
americangirlchick.blogspot.com
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Thanks, Leah!
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Great review. This outfit looks great on Lea!
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Thanks! Yep, it sure does. :)
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I love the shirt! Do they make it in human size… :P But I’m guessing it would be around a hundered dollars so… XD
The watch is really cool too! :)
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Me too! Sadly, they don’t . . . I’m not sure why, since the shirt is one of my favorite clothing pieces from Lea’s collection!
Yeah, it is!
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Hehe! :D
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great job Loren I love this outfit and hope to get it soon!! Beautiful pictures!!
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Thanks, Paige! I hope you get it — it’s well worth it. :)
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I think the belt bulging is weird too !!=)
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Mm-hmm!
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I LOVE the boots! XD
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Me too!
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Great review, Loren! The shirt is really pretty. :)
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Thanks, Allison!
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Great review! I don’t particularly love the hiking outfit, but I do love the shirt!
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Thank you! Yeah, the shirt is my favorite part. :)
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I love the authentic looking hiking pants and preppy belt, while the watch to me is horrifying and ugly, neon color hurts my eyes and it’s quite bulky, honestly looks like it is from a dollar store gumball machine, but my kindergartener loves it. The shirt is just passable-okay, I can see the appeal to children and young women, while headband simple but sweet. The fun hiking boots are cute but wish that socks were included. Who wears hiking boots without socks? Even in steamy Brazil! I still miss the strings on Leah and won’t buy her as a protest. I went to a Valentine’s dance today and got into a big conversation with a group of 12 year old girl AG fans about the lack of the strings. They all prefer the strings!
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And may I add that I think your photos are as beautiful as ever! 🌟
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Wow, thank you. :)
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Nice review, Loren. :) I wasn’t thinking about buying this, but you may have changed my mind. I think the belt bulge looks like she stuffed something into her shirt. XD Maybe candy to hide from her sisters? :D
-Catlover02 =^-^=
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Thanks! It’s definitely worth it. ;) LOL!
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Love the watch :)
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Me too!
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Thank you for the review. I am definitely adding it to my collection before the year is out. I made mistakes with Grace’s wardrobe and don’t plan to repeat in 2016.
I like the striping on the pants. A nice detail. Perhaps the belt would work on different outfits instead of here.
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Thank you so much for the review! I was wondering whether or not to ask for this for Christmas, and your review was exactly what I needed.
I do have one question… Are the pants super tight? Like when the doll sits down while wearing them, do they slide down her bottom? :P I’ve seen some AG pants do this and it’s super annoying.
•Madison•
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Oh, and did you ever decide on how to style her shirt? Do you still just prefer on the outfit without the belt or have you found a better way to style it since then?
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