#vintage barbies

[killezramiller]

Silkstone Barbies

[valleydoll]

I’ve been wanting to try some vintage Mod Barbie clothes on my Modern Circle Barbies since they used the vintage Mod Barbie face sculpts for these dolls - and they look very cute in the Mod style (also, this was the first time I removed their stock outfits and discovered that there legs are strung on elastic, which I don’t think I’ve seen on any other Barbies before?):

[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 4: Career (Sub Round 2)

This is round 4 (sub round 2) of the bracket. All other polls in can be found here.

[theriaultsdolls]

Barbie Mod & Before - Saturday, April 15 at 11AM EST. Featuring rare and seldom-seen dolls and outfits, Japanese and European exclusives, in excellent to near mint condition. This is a live auction with absentee, telephone and internet bidding available. https://theriaults.proxibid.com https://www.theriaults.com

[barbielore]

The first "fully poseable" Barbie was 1970's Living Barbie and her little sister Living Skipper. The same doll was rereleased but with new accessories as Dramatic New Living Barbie (or Skipper, as applicable) later the same year.

"Fully poseable" is, of course, relative - different Barbies and Barbie-line toys over the years have used different mechanisms to pose Barbies, from the "bendable, poseable" bendy limbs like those used for Barbie's siblings Tutti and Todd, to the articulated Made to Move modern Barbies.

These dolls had clicklock knee joints, flexible wrists and a bendable waist. Some of the ways they were posed in advertising for the line is really unsettling, contorting their bodies in such strange ways just to show that they can.

The Barbie catalogue from that year shows much nicer demonstrations of her twists and turns though.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Not Very Old dolls, but in my grandparent’s Scary Basement there was an odd assortment of old toys and the favorite selection for my sister, my cousin, and I was this little wooden wagon, a tail-less breyer horse, and a vintage barbie in a blue and white polka dotted dress.

She looked weird to us, but she was The Toy at grandmas, so she’d always take a horse cart journey upstairs so the horse could graze on the green shag carpet in the family room.

Ooooh, vintage Barbies! Depending on what sort exactly she was, she might ahve been worth a fair amount. (If she was a number 1, with the white irises and ponytail and holes in the feet, we're talking potentially $10,000 or more).

But I'm glad you got to play with her. It makes me a little sad that collectors' dolls- mine fully included, to be clear -tend to just sit on shelves all day. It's why I try to take narrative pictures with them, hug them, kiss their cheeks, take them out to shows and events when I can do it safely, have Bonding Time while I sew for them...

Dolls are friend-shaped, and therefore they should be treated as friends. We literally made Small Fake People to keep us company as children (and adults) because humans are just that social. Let them do their job!

(Also shag carpeting would make THE BEST grass for a doll cart. 10/10; babby Marzi would be so jealous.)

[astrasdolliriumbadasdollz]

1980s barbie clothes genuine

some handmade clothes made in same era and later

all for a bulk lot of dolls barbie mainly i found from 1960-1980-90

they need serious help but who ever wins them all on my auction will be doll collectors and know what needs doing i guess and how to do it.

[jeniferprince]

this barbie likes other barbies

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[cheesy-cryptid]

Sharing a recent commission that holds a very special place in my heart 🥹🫶

My commissions are still open!!

[confessionsofarefashionista]

Definitely some the coolest things in my house! 💮🌸🌺

[theguythatcollectsdolls]

They are using Matte paintings in the Barbie Movie like in the early movie days instead of using CGI

And here’s a look at Skipper, she’s living with Midge in Chelsea’s treehouse :-)

[valleydoll]

I know I SAID that I was only going to get the Petite Miss Mary doll from Joey Versaw that is a tribute to the #1 ponytail Barbie as I already have a small Bild Lilli BUT I couldn’t sleep knowing I didn’t have the complete set since the Bild Lilli tribute doll is so so pretty. And of course this doll (like the first one) is made of resin, strung on elastic, came with a dress made by the artist, face painted by the artist, two resin wigs (blonde and brunette) and a stand and shoes.

And here they are together:

[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 1: Vintage (Final Sub Round)

Time to pick our winner for Round 1: Vintage Barbies! Pick the best Barbie to determine the ultimate Vintage Barbie! The winner will eventually move on to the all star round

This is round 1 (final sub round) of the bracket. All other polls in can be found here.

[theriaultsdolls]

Barbie Mod & Before - Saturday, April 15 at 11AM EST. Featuring rare and seldom-seen dolls and outfits, Japanese and European exclusives, in excellent to near mint condition. This is a live auction with absentee, telephone and internet bidding available. https://theriaults.proxibid.com https://www.theriaults.com

[barbielore]

hi! i was wondering if you had any knowledge of the first instances of barbie having jointed legs- not the bend and snap kind, but like balljoint-like? i'm having no luck on my own bc i'm just finding stuff about the snappy kind

I'm not 100% sure so please note that this post is mostly research done today and therefore might be wrong.

Also yes thank you for specifying the type of bendable legs you were talking about because otherwise I would have just talked about Tutti and that wouldn't have been fun for anyone.

(A reminder of my favourite girl Tutti.)

I didn't know the answer to your question to start off with, but I did know that I had a doll in the 90s with articulated knee and elbow joints, so that was a good place to start.

This particular Flickr poster backs up my thinking that the 1990s had these dolls, but I wouldn't necessarily call that definitive that the first time this articulation appeared was in the 90s. That being said, I can't find a source on there being any earlier dolls that had that kind of articulation as opposed to plasticizer bendable or bend and snap kind. So I am going to tentatively suggest that it was the early 90s.

This gymnast Barbie from 1994 isn't the one I had (I had the Olympic Gymnast Barbie for the Atlanta Games) but I'm pretty sure it's the same body, and is the earliest doll that I can be sure had that leg style.

That said if anyone knows better than me please let me know!

[dollulus]

How 2 clean vintage Barbie dolls! Featuring 1970's Malibu Barbies. Easy!