Recently, dolls used to be only dolls. Small girls (and sometimes boys as well) played with them, until they became older. Afterwards, they were not children anymore, that’s why dolls were thrown away and left alone. These dolls hold little appeal to them now. Everything has changed with the appearing of the 1^st Barbie girl, it turned the world upside down. We began: “Think Pink!”. We fell in love with her at the 1^st sight and still can’t find the remedy.

Really, she is beautiful, slim, and attractive, she has everything she wants and no matter the event, Barbie girl always looks stunning. Most designers in a very quick way have realized how profitable it is. And they started creating their own variants of Barbie-dolls.

Actually, they are not simply dolls anymore. They are cool dolls, cool and extremely expensive toys, nobody plays with them, most people buy such dolls in order to show them to their friends and to feel proud, that they are capable of spending more than $300 to buy a single doll.

Dear fashion-lovers, 3 cool dolls are to your attention and we start from Barbie, she deserves it.

• Barbie dolls

  The first Barbie-doll was created in 1959, the American business woman – Ruth Handler considered to be its creator. Design of dolls was inspired by a doll from Germany – Bild Lilly. Barbie dolls had incredible market success and only in recent years they faced the music – competitors – Bratz dolls.

  History

  Ruth had a young daughter – Barbara who while playing with her dolls, adored giving them adult roles. Most toys were made in the form of infants. In 1956 Ruth made a trip to Germany and there met a doll - Bild Lilli, this doll was not a child, she had a body of a young woman and children were gaga over dressing it. So, after returning to the USA Ruth designed her own doll, her husband worked at the Mattel Toy Company and on March 9, 1959 Barbie was born. Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

  Barbie is not a doll, it is a cultural icon, possessing many honours and awards (as a toy).

  Controversies

  Barbie doll became an idol, an example to follow for most girls-teenagers; they want to look like she looks, to behave the same as she behaves and to be as slim as she is. And they never care about the aftermaths.

  In slang Barbie-girl means a shallow and not interesting, even stupid girl. Also Barbie was criticized for promoting an unrealistic idea of constitution, thus, pushing girls to anorexia. And in 1997 the waist of a doll was redesigned in order to suit contemporary requirements.

  
  

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