Ms. P's dolls

This is sort of an epilogue to my Barbie doll haul in December.  Ms. P promised to show me her childhood dolls, and yesterday she came in with them!  She told me about bubble-cut Barbie, Midge, an Ken, but she had some other stuff too.  First out of the box was the bubble-cut.

All of these dolls have been played with and thus have some paint missing, but Mama's Barbie is missing paint too so that's no biggie.  Bubble-Cut was Ms. P's first doll (Ms. P was seven), and she's wearing a dress that an aunt made.  When I told Ms. P that she was my favorite of the dolls she told me she'd put that in her will, LOL.

Crew-cut Ken was there, the kind that loses his hair as time goes by.

I don't often get to see vintage Ken dolls, so seeing this young hunk was a real treat.  He's got a lovely face.

Then there was Ms. P's "first Midge," clad in a dress that I think her mother made.  I love the colors!

I was particularly excited to see Fashion Queen Midge, as I've never seen one of them IRL before.

For the uninitiated, Fashion Queen Barbie and Midge had short molded hairstyles that could accommodate three wigs that they were packaged with.  The wigs came in all three hair colors and in flip, pageboy, and bubble-cut styles, though these wigs have been...well, played with!  They do still have all their hair though.

Of course Midge has lost none of her girl-next-door cuteness.

There was a Twist 'n' Turn Barbie in the mix, clad in a lovely blue ballgown.

TNT's hair is in rough shape, but she's got a beautiful face.  I've always loved these late sixties dolls.

Rounding out the bunch were a blonde Skipper and a brunette Skooter.  I can't tell if that Skipper is a Malibu doll or not, but they're both cute.

Ms. P also saved a couple of old paper products, one Barbie-sized magazine and one booklet that had Barbie and co. inside.

Tutti, Casey, and Francie are listed on that booklet, giving y'all an idea about how old that thing is.  I didn't photograph the inside, but there was an advertisement for Francie's Afro-American variant in there, and the illustrations were bordered in Piet Mondrian-esque colored blocks.  It was all unabashedly sixties and I loved it.  I really loved seeing all of these dolls too; despite being rough around the edges they could be easily restored if Ms. P so wished, but she likes 'em as is because they've got so many memories attached.  She admitted to me that she played with the dolls well into junior high, which I got because the heyday of my Barbie days were in high school.  Hey, it was better than the dumb, sometimes dangerous things that some of my classmates did!  Anyway, I ended my bull session with Ms. P by showing her pictures of my vintage things, and she sounded very impressed.  Sadly, neither of us have Francie, despite us both liking her!  I may have to change that...

Warm hugs,
RagingMoon1987