Can BTS dolls wear 1960s Ken’s doll clothes? #Kpop #Jimin

A photo of Ken vintage doll clothes patterns from Sew-Easy by Advance, pattern #2899 shows the following outfits for Ken (top row starting on the left): a blue short-sleeved shirt with collar and a pair of drawstring white pants; a boat-neck charcoal colored T-shirt with maroon bermuda shorts; a white bathrobe; (bottom row from left) khaki trousers with a long-sleeved white shirt that has a collar and single front pocket; a brown dinner jacket; a pair of yellow pajamas including a collarless pajama shirt and pants. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I’m back with another analysis of my Advance 2899 sewing pattern for male fashion dolls. Last week we looked at how modern Ken and Ryan dolls fit into this pattern, and today, by request from one of my followers, I’m going to show you how well these patterns work for my Jimin doll from the Mattel BTS doll collection.

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White trousers and a matching long-sleeved white shirt with a collar, cuffs, and a single front pocket are accompanied by a black and white horizontally striped ascot scarf and a black and white checkered dinner jacket with three patch pockets (two at the bottom of the front of the jacket and one as a breast pocket). — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

The image above shows each piece of the ensemble I created, using Advance 2899. The ensemble includes the jacket from View 1 along with the ascot, plus the pants/trousers and shirt from view 2.

Now that I’ve unboxed my Jimin BTS doll, I was able to try these clothes on him. Here’s how he looked:

On the left, Jimin models a black and white checkered jacket from the back, his arms spread wide. His white trousers beneath the jacket look a little wrinkled, like they're a bit too big and baggy. In the center, he models the entire ensemble from the side, with the ascot neatly tied and puffy at the front of the jacket. He looks ready for winter! On the right, with his hands at the side, we can really tell that the jacket's sleeves are too long for this Park Jimin doll. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

My BTS Park Jimin doll was the only male fashion doll who could wear the white cotton shirt from Advance 2899 under the jacket, and still get the ascot tucked into the jacket properly, as you can see in the center image…

However, it’s noticeable on both the right and the left images of Jimin, that the sleeves of the jacket are just too long for him. This wouldn’t be too hard to alter, of course.

With all the blobby wrinkles in the trousers, you might think they’re too big for him, and in a sense, you could be right to think that.

In this image, a BTS doll, Park Jimin, models a pair of handmade trousers that were sewn using the vintage Ken doll clothes pattern Advance 2899, and the photos show that the waist of the trousers it a bit too wide, while the legs of the trousers seem to fit the inseam for Jimin. The outseam (the leg measurement from the ankle to the waist) is a bit long for Jimin. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

However, I don’t think this is a lost cause. The inseam of the trousers (the measurement from the crotch to the ankle bone) looks perfect! The trousers look blobby because his shoes are high-tops. Without the shoes, as you can see in the photo above, they don’t crinkle up at all.

Now granted, the waist is both too high and too wide. I think this could easily be resolved, though, by turning these pants or trousers into elastic-waist pants instead of snap-front trousers.

So in my humble opinion, these doll clothes are going to fit Jimin just fine, with just a few simple pattern alterations.

A BTS Jimin doll (Park Jimin) has his foot shoved half-way into a Ken doll's white penny loafer from the 1970's. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I was a little disappointed to discover that my Park Jimin BTS doll cannot fit into Ken’s shoes.

Some of you may have seen that I had Jimin’s original clothes up for sale on eBay, but I didn’t sell his shoes with the outfit. Once I make him some “Chelly Wood” doll clothes patterns, I’ll need a pair of shoes that do fit his rather oddly-shaped feet, so he can model the clothes I’ll be making for him.

Does anyone know if he can fit into any other dolls’ shoes? Maybe GI Joe’s shoes, perhaps? Please let me know in the comments if you’ve found a successful shoe-swap for your BTS dolls! Thanks!

On the left is a pair of white plastic penny loafers; on the right is a pair of black plastic penny loafers. The text below these reads "Ken's shoes from the 1970's." — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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