Tag: tammy

• Rival Fashion Booklets (1962-66)

  Soft hues suffuse a 1962 fashion booklet for Ideal’s Tammy. Clothes are shown worn by the character in detailed scenes, with accessories, background figures, and other immersive touches. See the booklet cover above, left; just a few of its charming fashion illustrations are below. The following year, another booklet advertised all the same fashions and…

  sheathsensation

  December 20, 2025

  clones

  1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, bobbi, tammy, tressy

• The Two Abodes of Tammy

  In the early ’60s, the glory days of chipboard living, Barbie’s rivals enjoyed rooms and apartments of their own. Tammy, an early competitor from Ideal, came out with a pair of domestic play sets in 1963, hot on the heels of Barbie’s first Dream House. The first of these houses was not marketed specifically for…

  sheathsensation

  July 19, 2025

  built environment, clones

  1963, tammy

• Not Barbie on TV

  In an earlier post, we reviewed a handful of Barbie’s television appearances on early Barbie sets. But Barbie, her friends, and rivals watched other programs, too. Let’s view a few. First up is the 1963 Ideal house that was marketed for use by either Tammy or Barbie. This was a big house for its era,…

  sheathsensation

  January 13, 2024

  built environment, clones, Musings

  1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, francie, littlechaps, skipper, tammy, tressy, vintage barbie

• Fireplaces, 1963-79

  Winter weather moved in last week and put me in the mood to huddle near pictures of mid-century toy fireplaces. Join me!

  sheathsensation

  December 2, 2023

  built environment, clones

  bionic woman, ideal toy corp, jamie, sindy, tammy, tressy, tuesday taylor, vintage barbie

• Clone Carrying Cases

  We previously discussed some of the gorgeous fashion illustrations that graced the lids of Barbie’s early carrying cases and other various totables; concurrently with these, an assortment of off-brand and competitor cases boasted similar stylish graphics. Like Barbie’s official carrying cases, they also offered alternate color palettes in otherwise identical cases, as you may find…

  sheathsensation

  September 10, 2023

  clones, illustration

  ideal, miner, misty, tammy, tara toy, vanity fair, weldseal

• Deluxe Reading Dream Kitchen (1963)

  Barbie’s earliest abodes may suggest that she was not much of a cook: neither the ’62 Dream House nor her ’64 Campus dorm room provided kitchen facilities (predictably, in the latter case); the Go-Together rooms offered a dining room, but no kitchen; and the ’64 New Dream House had a very minimal kitchen in the…

  sheathsensation

  December 10, 2022

  built environment

  1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, clones, tammy, tressy, vintage barbie