A pink outing

Nov 15, 2024 19:07

Today I went to the Barbie exhibition at The Design Museum in Kensington. It's a bit of a longer journey for me to get to as I have to get a train and then a tube, but fairly easy. As usual, both trains meshed together beautifully ( Read more... )

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pondhopper November 16 2024, 12:31:44 UTC
So, I came directly to your page and see the Barbie post. I am thinking it's not showing on anybody's friends feed since you have no comments. Hmmm....
In any case, SO MANY BARBIES. And my daughters and I have so many of them. I had the original Barbie in the striped swimsuit...my older daughter Vicki has her now. I was 7 in 1959 and remember how excited I was to get her for Christmas.
How I would love to see this exhibition.

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kazzy_cee November 16 2024, 14:00:57 UTC
Hopefully I’ve sorted out the error.

You sound like you would love the exhibition - there were all the different faces from over the years (I didn’t post all of them!) and it was so interesting to see how the fashion changed over time. I’m going to go back with a friend as she’s keen to see it ;)

The original Barbie is worth some money now!

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one_raido November 16 2024, 15:54:11 UTC
We are like-minded in our dolls. My doll that had adjustable hair was named Chrissy. I never did Barbies, either, but we are the same age, lol.

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kazzy_cee November 16 2024, 16:15:05 UTC

I much preferred playing with the hair. I always wanted one of those really large heads that you could style the hair - I never got one :(

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webgirluk November 17 2024, 14:38:40 UTC

The Barbie expo looks interesting. I used to have loads of Barbies growing up and would make a school class out of them and take the register. Things got more interesting when Ken came along, LOL! In recent years I ended up with some again and keep meaning to complete an online story I began about them but from a more adult perspective.

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kazzy_cee November 17 2024, 16:51:59 UTC
It was an interesting exhibition - I was fascinated at how they had changed their faces over the years!

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lblanchard November 17 2024, 18:44:08 UTC

Did the exhibition include anything about the racy German call-girl doll that was Barbie's predecessor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

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kazzy_cee November 17 2024, 18:54:17 UTC
It did not! I’m not surprised though having read that article!

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