![]() ![]() Watson has tiny wigs, booklets that came in each Barbie box, sandwich bags of clothes, barbells and a tiny pretzel box Barbie took along on baby-sitting jobs. Watson has Candy Striper Volunteer Barbie, Plantation Belle Barbie, even Solo in the Spotlight Barbie - with the fabulous strapless black dress, pink chiffon scarf and tiny microphone that could be taken from its stand. See, like here, she has a little hat on." My sister had those," she said, pointing out another Barbie, Midge, Skipper and Ken. "Some of these are worth $200," the Barbie fan said, pointing out her favorite doll, dressed in a red sheath, white gloves, straw hat and silver clutch. The whole collector mentality, it's consumerism: I've gotta have the next one."įor Watson, who is an adult after all and whose mom no longer tells her that enough is enough, having the next one is the fun.Įvery day, somewhere, Barbie is turned down for play dates, but she's always welcome at Watson's. ![]() "I was a collector at a very young age, a collector who has to have the next one and the next one and the next one. "Barbie had everything," Moore said, thinking back. When each product line began, both had limited clothing and add-ons, but now, Moore said, the expanded choices don't seem to stop. Moore dislikes Barbie for several other reasons: yes, the maturity of Barbie's body and her exaggerated physique also the idea that a Barbie baby might lead to questions about where babies come from and the endless Barbies and Barbie accessories.įor her, that issue also developed with Mattel's miniature Polly Pocket dolls as well as its American Girl dolls. "Barbie has a ton of clothing, and these days the clothing she has is less than modest." "Another thing is the clothing," Moore said. Then you have those romantic boy/girl things going on at a very young age." But where there's a Barbie, there's usually a Ken. ![]() "They have Caucasian dolls as well as Latino dolls, a variety of different dolls." "The dolls take up the majority of the house," joked Byrd, department chairman of secondary education and school leadership at NSU. Byrd and his wife have provided a mix of dolls for their young daughters, Mia, 5, and Bria, 21 months, allowing them choices and opportunities for role play. She said it's good for you to have a Barbie doll that looks like you." If there were black Barbie dolls and I was a black child, I should have a black Barbie. "I talked to her about it, and she said that she didn't want to confuse me. She let me keep it, but I could tell it disturbed her. I brought it home, and my mother did not like it at all. "I really liked it, and I noticed it was a white Barbie. "But one Christmas somebody bought me a white dentist Barbie," Jones remembered. Jones, now 19 and a sophomore at ODU, loved Barbie dolls and enjoyed her mother's gifts of black Barbies. "That way," McSwain said, "if you're Asian American or African American or Latin American, if you choose the right kinds of toys, you expose children to what real life is about, and who they will see, and the jobs they will strive for." ![]()
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