Journey Girls Tribal Dress

Kayla Tries on the New Tribal Dress

In the last few weeks Toys R Us released 6 new outfits in their Italy line.  The one being reviewed today is called “Tribal Dress-Yellow Color”.  Not a very fancy name for really unique dress.  The outfit comes with the dress, a new style of sandals, a cloth headband, and a purse.

Made completely of cotton, this dress is soft and airy.  The top is a thicker cotton with a tribal print, with aqua, pink, blue, black and a little orange in it.  The print ends at the midriff, like an empire waist.  

From there down to Kyla’s feet, light yellow cotton makes up the skirt.  The fabric is gathered just a bit around her waist, to help the dress billow out.  Be aware that bright colored underwear will show through this skirt since the fabric is so light.  The fabric is perfect for a summer outfit, though.

With such a warm and fun outfit, the accessories need to be fun too, and they are.  The purse that comes with this outfit is a raffia style bag, which would look right at home on the beach.  It has a navy blue cloth bottom, with the raffia making up the main part of the bag, and then two brown leather handles.  The handles could be just a bit longer to make it easier to keep on Kyla’s shoulders, but they work.  It’s a very cute bag that goes really well with this outfit.

The headband is similar to many of the other Journey Girls headband.  Made with a dark blue ribbon and elastic at the bottom, the headband stretches easily to fit on Kyla’s head.   At the top is a navy blue, cloth rose.  Similar to many other headbands, but a nice addition.

Usually the shoes are an issue with Journey Girls outfits, but this time the shoes are wonderful….and they are a new design.  The sandals are similar to the plastic sandals that Mikaella came with in her Italy meet dress, except with fewer straps and they are made with “leather”.  Okay, so maybe they aren’t similar.  

They are kind of a combination of the plastic sandals and the newer fabric topped sandals.  The biggest different between these and the other fabric topped sandals that have come out in the last year is that they are higher up on Kyla’s ankle, and they attach at the back with Velcro.  Very well designed, very pretty shoe! Good job Journey Girls!

Ratings
All ratings are out of 10

Value 9 – You get three accessories, besides a beautiful dress, which is very good for Journey Girls.  Plus the accessories are nice.  The new sandals are wonderful and a welcome addition to the shoe collection.  Although similar to many other headbands in the Journey Girl collection, this one is a nice color and can be used with other outfits.  The raffia handbag is very cute.  A great bag for the beach.

Fitment 9 – The dress fits great.  It is fitted on the top and very free flowing and loose in the skirt.  Although not really a fitment issue, the semi translucentness of the dress is not awesome.  With so many of the new Journey Girls outfits they have sewn a secondary skirt into the dress, it would have been nice if that were added to this dress.  Honestly, this is a very small issue, and not an issue that will be noticed when playing with the doll.  For me photographing Kyla, certain lighting situations shown the issue.

Versatility 8 – Since this outfit has three good accessories that are able to be used for other outfits, it scores high in the versatility category.  The dress itself doesn’t have a lot of different uses, but that’s okay.  Because the sandals are a new design the score was almost a ten, just because it is so exciting to get a new set of shoes!

Cuteness 9 – What a cute outfit!  And so different than anything else Journey Girls has out.  It is awesome to have full-length dresses…and to have a casual full-length dress is just awesome.  Such a beautiful, simple dress!

Overall 9 – A wonderful dress, with many new ideas for Journey Girls.  Hopefully this outfit sells well and encourages Journey Girls and Toys R Us to be bold in some of their designs.  It is awesome to get a new style of shoe (even if it is semi similar to other sandals).  Kyla looks amazing in this outfit, as does Chavonne…okay; all of the girls look good in this outfit!  If you are also an American Girl fan and have Lea, the new Girl of the Year, this is a great outfit for your Journey Girls to hang out with Lea in!  Definitely pick it up!