WANTED

This group was last seen in the 1970s.

KEN - "Male" figure, known for bountiful molded plastic hair and perma-grin. Dressed in the hippest 70s attire; usually barefoot.

BARBIES 1 and 2 - "Female" figures with massacred hair and ears pierced with straight pins lodged just so in their heads. Clothing may be lacking in elasticity. Feet, typically bare, must surely be tired, after decades on tip-toes.

SKIPPERS  1, 2, and 3 - "Female" flat-footed figures.  Flat-chested too, except for Skipper 1, aka Growing Up Skipper. She grows and develops before your eyes when you crank her left arm. (Note before and after pictures.) Writer has tried same technique on herself without success. Skippers 2 and 3  also sport the massacred hair look. Poor things.

This group is not known to be armed or dangerous. However, they may evoke feelings of nostalgia.  Proceed with appropriate caution.

Comments

[Karen]

Hey, Marie! Greetings from Wisconsin. Barbies...gosh, they've really fallen off the radar, haven't they? My daughter played with them for about 5 minutes and then American Girls took over. Thanks for the "look back".

Michele sent me...

[Barbara]

I had a Skipper doll, I think the third one. I have no idea where she is.

[Marie]

The 3rd Skipper was my older sisters.... she's losing her hair! No bendee legs either -- how'd they survive without bendee legs?!

[Caltechgirl]

better than that, I had a Francie doll with a butch haircut. You remember Barbie's friend Francine, the one that looked like a big Skipper, with bendy legs and straight sandy hair......

I used to have that Ken doll too, although I only kept the dark haired ones.

[Shish]

Wow- these are collector's items now, aren't they? My mom, much to my sister's and my displeasure, gave away all our Barbies without our knowing to my two younger cousins. They prompty massacred them-cut their hair, amputated their limbs, etc. We were mad! Now, of course, I realize it wasn't all that great a loss. ;)

[InterstellarLass]

I only had one Skipper, but I had a dark-haired Ken and a blond Ken. I also had several Barbies on tip-toe. *sigh* I wonder if my mom still has these in her attic.

[Suzanne]

Oh my gosh, I remember that Skipper doll! I never had one, but I thought it was so cool that she could grow.

[Marie]

CTG,
Yes, I remember her! Never had her.

Shish,
Nah -- I don't think they're worth anything in the condition they're in. I thought maybe Growing Up Skipper would be worth something, but we looked on eBay & they're all over the place -- not rare at all!

[Marie]

InterstellarLass,
My fave was actually a Skipper-sized doll named Music. She had long curly black hair & came in the groovy purple dress Skipper #3 is wearing here. I think she came with a guitar. I have no clue where she ever went! ;-( She's not in my Barbie shoebox.

Suzanne,
I thought she was the coolest when I got her. I thought she'd be broken by now, but she still works!

[Holly]

Wow.. I never heard of that growing up Skipper... and I was a total Barbie fanatic growing up! I used to love to "make" my Barbie's clothes by taking pretty scarves of my Mother's and pinning them in the back with a safety pin.

I had Ken too. They had many adventures in my bedroom closet during my daily "quiet time", some even involved torrid love affairs which left Barbie pregnant - can you BELIEVE it??? I guess I must have been 10 or so. Geez.