Barbies Quality

Barbie has been sold around the world. In America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Russia etc. In these countries, these dolls vary in appearence. This has to do with the wealth of the country. If the country was a wealthy country eg. America, the Barbie would be made with great quality, if it was made in Russia, the Barbie would not be great quality.

Christmas Barbie

Here is a picture of Christmas Barbie. She came out on a special edition for the Christmas holidays. She wears a longs red dress with black lace, white fur and a black belt. She wears a white, furry hairband with a necklace and white long gloves. Her skin is tanned and she has black hair.

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Barbie Fashion Queen

This Barbie came out in 1963. She wore a striped gold and white one-piece swimsuit and a matching headscarf. She had a molted head with brown hair and a blue hairband. She had straight non-bendable legs and had painted facial features. She came with three wigs; blonde, black and brown. Each wig had a stand tobe put on.






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Miss Barbie

This is the first Barbie that was made with eyes that will open and close. She was made to look like Barbie was sleeping. She wore a pink swimsuit with pink frills at the bottom. She wore a pink wig which was removable and had short brown har with an orange hairband underneath. She also wore little flip flops. When you lay her down her eyes would close so she would look like she was sleeping. This product did not sell well because the doll scared children! But it is still a collectors item.








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First Bendable Legs Barbie

In 1965, Barbie was first created with bendable legs. She could only be bent at the knees. Barbie's clothes also changed, she wore a one-piece swimsuit with a turquoise bottom and multi-striped top. She had a page-boy haircut (a short bob). She had more intense makeup than the original Barbie doll and her hair colour ranged from blonde to dark brown. Here is a picture of what she looked like.








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Lilli Doll

Ruth Handler got her idea from the Lilli Doll. Lilli was orginally a German cartoon character and in 1953 they made her into a doll. Ruth saw these dolls and decided to make her Barbie similar. In 1964, Mattel acquired the rights to the doll so the Lilli Doll had to stop. The Lilli Doll and the Barbie doll were very much alike.










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When Was Barbie First Sold?

The first Barbie was first launched on March the 9th, 1959 at New York International American Toy Fair.
Here is a picture of the first Babie. She wore a white and black zebra print swimsuit with a ponytail in either blonde or brunette. Charlotte Johnson designed Barbie's clothes. The dolls were manufactured in Japan. 350,000 Barbies were sold in the first year of production.
Barbie had pale white skin, eyeshadow and lipstick on. She had round holes of copper tubes in the bottom of her feet like in the picture shown.



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Who Invented Barbie?

The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler. Her own daughter was named Barbra. The Ken doll was named after Ruth's son. Barbie first had bendable legs in 1965. This here is a picture of Ruth.
Ruth went to Mattel Corp with her ideas.

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