As the “Barbie” movie arrives, the Barbie doll itself is experiencing a cultural resurgence. One writer recalls her relationship with the world’s most famous doll.
; her chic trench belonged in “Charade.”
As much as I enjoyed dressing my Barbie in her store-bought outfits, I also had fun creating clothes for her myself. After plundering my mother’s storehouse of rickrack and ribbons, I used her pinking shears to cut material and became adept with glue, no sewing required. I even made a Barbie-sized bed for my doll by gluing pieces of balsa wood together, then crafting sheets, blankets and pillows from stray fabric.
By then I was at university, and my mother was the keeper of my doll and her various accoutrements. She invited Anne and Lise to play with my vintage Barbie within the confines of her living room coffee table, cautioning them to be “very careful” with her. Like me, Anne and Lise built houses, filling them with furniture they made. They created flowy ball gowns for Barbie out of Kleenex. in both “regular and Malibu” versions, as well as the dolls PJ and Skipper.
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