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Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part III

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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The History of Barbie

From 1992 to 1995 more than 10 million totally hair Barbies were sold April. Mattel's adult collectors division was doing around $35 million in annual sales, two years later by 1995 that number was over $180 million. In 1996 ad and parenting magazine said, over the course of your childhood you changed your clothes about a million times introducing Barbie collectibles because you're never too old for Barbie.

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