QUICK CURL BARBIE & FRIENDS

Quick Curl Barbie Background Left Side

Quick Curl Barbie Background Center

Quick Curl Barbie Right Side

QUICK CURL BARBIE & FRIENDS.

While yesterday's posted fashions were more subdued the clothes here go to the extreme in both color and pattern (that brick patterned jumpsuit and marble skirt are a bit much!) but the various wigs are fun and overall it's a good set. The color dots on each doll match the tabs on their respective outfits. 

I've fashioned a tri-fold background from the inside folder artwork to pose the dolls in front of.

That's enough Barbie for now, more fun and different paper doll sets are coming up next week!

 

BARBIE & PJ

BARBIE & PJ.

Here's more Barbie, this time from the early 1990's. Unlike a lot of these sets that featured some pretty outlandish outfits these look like things someone might actually be seen wearing. So which do you prefer, Reality or Fantasy when clothing Barbie?

More Tomorrow!

 

BARBIE, STACEY & CHRISTIE 1978

BARBIE, STACEY & CHRISTIE  1978.

Barbie and her fashionable friends can all wear the same outfits and what outfits! The "Mod" look had transitioned by the late 1970's, with the hodge-podge of 1980's fashion just around the corner and that is reflected in this set.

More Barbie & Friends coming tomorrow.

 

BUTTERSCOTCH

BUTTERSCOTCH.

As we head into Fall here is a doll for Fall with a Fall colored wardrobe. 

More fun paper doll posts are coming next week!

 

CRISSY & VELVET

Crissy & Velvet Background Center.

Crissy & Velvet Background Hairstyle Wheel.

Crissy & Velvet Background Left & Right Sides.

CRISSY & VELVET.

Crissy was another marketing ploy by the Ideal Toy Company to compete with Mattel's Barbie. She famously had "growing hair" that could be pulled out or reeled back in on the whim of the little girls playing with her. And like Barbie, Crissy had an African American friend named Velvet with the same adjustable hairdo. This set from 1969 reflects the Groovy and Mod fashions that were supposedly popular at that time in history. Since different hairstyles were difficult to replicate on the flat paper dolls you got a folder cover with rotating wheel to give the dolls their "dos". I have turned that into a tri-fold background that you can pose the dolls in front of.