Barbie, the tip of a very strange iceberg

[muninnhuginn]

We have to confess that we knew very little about Barbie: when our "giddy" aunt offered to buy us one as a birthday present (6th) our mother refused to let her. They compomised on a Sindy for which our parents never bought a thing, thereby encouraging us to save our pocket money to buy the various accessories we wanted. (Note our mother would only buy our brother the one Action Man not to come with a gun--the mountain resue one with a more than passing resemblance to our uncle. J had to buy any toy guns for either himself or Action Man out of his pocket money. We weren't allowed to watched ITV either, because of all the pernicious advertising.) We rather envied our friends thait collections of Pippa dolls. So we have certain amount of sympathy with this (Torygraph, again).

We like the idea of a My Little Attorney doll. My Little Rocket Scientist would be good. (Our various Sindies (they never lasted long) spent their time borrowing Action Man's parachute and landrover and surviving in post-holocaust isolation, building a shelter, hunting for food.....)

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[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I had Barbies I admit. They were Valkyries and had lots of adventures bringing heros to Odin in Valhalla and Freya in Folkvangr. This has more to do with my childhood reading material than any Barbie ad. ;-) And that Tyr came to me in dreams when I was about 11. Hey, who knows what the Bratz would bring!

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I just found Valkyrie's doll gallery. My Barbies never had such cool costumes! Wow, coats of real mail for Brunhilda! Mine were crocheted by a neighbor. :-)

[muninnhuginn]

Those are superb.

No my Sindies never dressed that well, tho' I did fashion some gauzy Greek goddess-ish dresses out the ends of net curtains. Normally it was cast-off fatigues and polo neck jumpers--which means I've turned, fashion-wise at least, into my Sindy doll.