Let's take a look at the new Cleo!
TLDR: For clothes, she can wear PS sized clothes that are fitted in the upper body (blouses, dresses with gathered skirts) but not things fitted in the thighs (pants, non-stretch fitted dresses). You can even get away with some of the looser legged pants like the Palazzo & Gaucho wide-legged pants pattern!
So most everything fits, but if you have a question about a particular pattern you can send me a message :)
Ok, from left to right I've got a G1 Cleo, a G2 cleo with a G1 head because I really didn't like her G2 head, and also the G2 body is customized so that her wraps aren't weirdly flesh colored, G3 Cleo, and G1 Nefera. I included Nefera in there to show how the new Cleo skintone stacks up. I've heard people calling her Nefera-colored and while G3 Cleo is is darker, she has a warmer skintone while Nefera has a cooler one. Her body is slightly shiny like Nefera's though, and I love that.
Before she came out, lots of people were saying she has the same body as Draculaura, but taller. She does not. I understand that she looks similar with the super thick thighs, but here's what happens when you try to do a clothing swap:
....right! Let's examine that in more detail.
It's the side view that makes you realize why Drac's clothes are so much bigger: she doesn't just have width added, she has depth added. Cleo mostly has width added.
This is why side-to-side doll comparisons can be really deceptive. If you really want to see what's going on, you need numbers!
Numbers-wise, Cleo matches up to the other G3 dolls except her waist is 6cm (.5cm smaller) and her thighs are 6.8cm (.8cm larger). Everything else is pretty much the same.
I'm not really sure what to call this body type. Draculaura is a classic 'pear', but Cleo doesn't have a bigger lower body as much as bigger thighs and a same/smaller everything else.
Given that Mattel has a long history with Barbie's body being pointed to as extremely un-realistic and needing things like bones removed to work, I am surprised that they made a doll with a waist measurement smaller than her thighs. In humans, a waist measurement 12% smaller than one's thighs wouldn't just need ribs removed, the poor girl wouldn't be able to walk!
MH dolls are more stylized than Barbies, so I'm not sure if this is going to cause the kind of backlash that would happen if a Barbie was released with a similarly dysmorphic measurements. We'll see I guess.