Shoes: Knit Booties

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A pair of white knit Cabbage Patch kid knit booties.

Knit booties were manufactured by Coleco from 1983 to 1987. However, the characteristics varied by factory.

I do not have any examples of Hong Kong period booties, so I do not know if there are any significant differences.

Yellow and white booties came with one regular-sized outfit, and white booties came with several preemie outfits.

Outfit #9 – Bubble Romper: The booties match the colour, tension, and knit pattern of the sweater.
Preemie outfit #1 – Gown with Vest
Preemie outfit #2 – Hooded Gown
Preemie outfit #3 – Gown with Hooded Blanket
Preemie outfit #4 – Gown with square yoke
Preemie outfit #5 – A-Line Gown
Preemie outfit #6 – Frilly Gown
BSeries Outfit B502 – Hooded Frilly Gown
BSeries Outfit B503 – Hooded Frilly blanket with tie and gown
I think all the outfits in the 1987 Preemie Mimic Series, #707 – #716, came with OK factory-made booties. I still need to confirm one or two through MIB kids.

Variation

So far I know that booties were manufactured by the following factories:

OK
P
KT (only made Bubble Romper booties)
PMI (only made Bubble Romper booties)
IC (only made Bubble Romper booties)
SS (only made preemie booties)
FW (only made preemie booties)
CC (only made preemie booties)
FD (only made preemie booties)

It seems that each factory used a different knitting pattern. You can see visual differences between them. I have one pattern that I cannot associate with a factory, but I think it might be the CC factory. I am still missing examples of many factories. Do you have them?

The booties also appear to come in two different sizes, but I do not know why. It would make sense that the larger ones were for the #9 Bubble Romper outfit and regular-sized kids, while the smaller ones were for the preemie outfits. However, I have seen the smaller-sized booties in yellow, which never came with the preemie outfits.

Three OK factory knit booties, all of various sizes. The middle is white, the other two are yellow.

Finally, there is a Play Along 25^th Anniversary version of the Bubble Romper outfit. These booties look like OK factory booties, but the yarn is thinner and finer.