Look what I got in the mail today. A Barbie catalog. I love Barbies for what they are: a kitchy, fashion icon with sci-fi proportions. I do not want to look like Barbie, nor like the waif models who are still the dominant body type in fashion media today (by nature or by photoshop). But I still have my 13 year old moments, as described in this classic tune, where I tell myself the wrong story and believe it (Thanks for the spellbinding images, Ingmar Bergman). Thankfully, those moments are few and far between, the older I get.
On a related note, notice how my 4 year old daughter, Beatrix, has already put her mark on each Barbie? Hmmmm.
Or dear, I have a sentence with a double negative...Grammar gods please forgive me.
ReplyDeleteI didn't catch it. But I do love barbies too. I spent many hours as a little girl with my dolls. Fun memories.
ReplyDeleteI was never a fan of Barbie, I loved a real baby doll. But, I love the variety of Barbies you can find out there and I wouldn't mind a hot black dress.
ReplyDeleteI don't get the whole doll-collecting thing in the first place. I played with them when I was little, but I outgrew them eventually. The clothes were fun to play with, and I loved the Dream House. But Barbie always seemed distorted to me. No one I knew looked like that, so she was never an ideal to me. But we have all felt the specter of magazine fashion models, sadly.
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ReplyDeleteI'm more of a Ken doll kind of chick, so much so that I married him,
By the time the first Barbies were available for purchase I was getting too old for doll playing but I loved making clothes for my younger sister's Barbie. I think they have kind of revamped Barbie and she has a shape now that is a bit more reasonable. Barbie is less threatening than the models and stars woman measure themselves against. I think it would be great to view a fashion magazine with just regular people modeling the clothes.
I collect dishes instead of dolls.
Double negatives, now I'm sure I excel at that Apis, it is nothing to fret over.
Speaking of Ken dolls, Queen, several weeks ago I bought each of the girls a ballerina Barbie and got Mack a Ken doll so he would feel included. A couple days later Amelia was stripping Ken down and I said, "Why are you taking Ken's clothes off?" She replied, "Because I like him be naked."
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That's hilarious, Sue!
ReplyDeleteI am a little uncomfortable with that skanky outfit Barbie has on. :)
ReplyDeleteDragonfly - skanky is right. But I figured out why she's dressed that way. She's dressed as the character from Moulin Rouge, who was played by Nicole Kidman in the movie. Not that she needs to be on the cover, but it wasn't just random skankiness.
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