Tag: julia
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Fashions that weren’t (1959-1970)
Barbie’s early clothing designs, with their period detail and high-fashion perspective, never fail to fascinate. Buried within the illustrations and other ephemera that we browse here are a smattering of alternate-reality Barbie fashions that never quite made it to production or perhaps were never slated for production at all. Almost all that we’ll review here…
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Sidebar: Mattel Fashions for Julia
Among Barbie’s 1960s celebrity pals, Julia must have had the biggest star turn. Witness: the dolls are still plentiful 50+ years later, implying brisk sales; and of the three “personality” dolls, only Julia received both her own line of fashions and a re-release as a Talking doll (Twiggy also had a fashion line, while Truly…
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Gift sets Galore (1960-1970)
Could there be any controversy? Gift set packaging is the vintage Barbie art category most likely to make a good calendar.Consider: Many lush, color images Already an appropriate scale (12″ or so tall; many are roughly square) It would be fun to map gift set illustrations to seasons and holidays The earliest sets had “discreet”…
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Whitman paper dolls (1967-1973)
During Barbie’s mod years, the Whitman illustrators experimented with a diversity of art styles, demonstrated in the collage of Barbie paper dolls above. (If a couple of them look like Stacey to you, let me reassure you that Whitman identified all as Barbie herself–we’ll see Stacey in a moment.) Starting with the “Barbie has a…
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