The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day.
VINTAGE BARBIE GROWING GROWIN UP SKIPPER 4 CLOTHES WHITE DOLL SANDALS SHOES HTF. Her attire, her teachers felt, was a little too mature for a junior high school student. Vintage Mattel Barbie 1975 Growing Up Skipper Ginger Hot Pink Sandals Shoes RARE. Someone I know has told me the story of being called into the principal's office to be queried about her home life. I suppose (again, never having been a prepubescent girl) geeklizzard isn't wrong to say that menstruation is more disruptive, if nothing else, than bigger tits, but the visible bodily changes can be traumatic too. A friend, a year younger than I, says she had one of these growing up.įor actual women, I imagine, it was a way to experience the phenomenon at a remove, as it were.
Ken was introduced into the market as Barbies Boyfriend in 1961 and Skipper Barbies little sister was introduced in 1964. Maybe it's because I'm a man that I found this disturbing when I first learned of it-after all, I never had to deal with my own breasts growing, and the ensuing change in how I was regarded by my peers (actually, my breasts did grow, but I digress). In 1964, when Skipper was introduced, Miss Barbie was reinvented, and became the only doll on the market with the ability to open and close her eyes.
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