Somebody mentioned in one of the other threads that there is not any standard by which to judge if reborn is good or not.
I thought that the sole criterion would be whether the doll could be mistaken for a real baby. The only question is how real it needs to be, and how judge it?
Well, lets say that for reborn to be considered
#1 - of excellent, collector’s item quality, you would have to touch it to be sure it is a doll. Every detail when photographed (in good light and good quality photo) would have to look so real that people would not be able to decide if it is real baby or reborn.
#5 - To be considered not good enough it would be obvious at 1st glance it is not alive, and details in photos would also not fool anybody. Badly done with lot of chalkiness, no depth of skin, hair looking like grandfather’s hairpiece that the dog played with for a while etc.
If we put, let’s say 3 categories in between #1 & #5, how would you define them?
And more importantly, how do you rate yourself?
I, after almost 5 years, would think most of my babies would be about grade #3, some could aspire to make it to #2.