Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part I
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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The Origins of the Barbie Doll
In the early 1950s Ruth had pitched the idea of an adult-bodied fashion doll to Mattel team. The idea came to her after watching her young daughter and her friends playing with adult female paper dolls. Smaller scale dolls modeling the latest fashions had existed for centuries prior.
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