Category: Musings
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Millennium Mod
Barbie’s Swinging Fashions, 1980-2020 The mod era–the Swinging Sixties, the Youthquake, fashion’s Space Age–was a time of major style upheaval. Short skirts with high boots, vibrant patterns and colors, and rejection of tradition reigned. Street fashion led the new trends while couturiers rushed to keep up. For Barbie, the period spanned approximately 1967 to 1973…
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Who wore it best? Mary Quant edition
In her 1965 memoir Quant wrote, “When you break a rule, you automatically arrive at something different and this is fun. Take stripes, checks and polka dots. For years these were worn on their own or teamed with a plain colour. Nobody asked why. I believe in mixing patterns and colours wildly. So far as…
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Great books for vintage Barbie fans
Recently, in a series of hilariously escalating blunders, someone at Mattel slipped on a banana peel, stepped on a rake, ran headlong through a sheet of plate glass being carried across the street by men in coveralls, and then accidentally ordered only two hundred copies printed of a new book on Barbie Dream Houses–all in…
Silken Flame 