Barbie
It all started in the 1950's when Ruth Handler saw her daughter, Barbara, and her friends playing on the floor with paper dolls. They enjoyed imagining the dolls being different people, who were working, swimming, playing with friends, being and doing grown up things. Ruth, who owned the company Mattel with her husband, understood that pretending how the future would be was part of growing up for kids. She did some research and found that there was room on the market for a doll like Barbie. Mattel had been making lots of toys before Barbie but when Ruth said that she wanted them to make a small doll for kids all the men in the staff had their doubts. Many different designs were done before the first Barbie was introduced on the 9th of March 1959. Barbie was named after Ruth's daughter, Barbara. Barbie was then a teen-age fashion model who was very different to the dolls the kids played with at that time. The buyers were at first skeptical to the doll but when Mattel started to make television commercials to reach out to the buyers, the commercials we
As the world changes their technology, well Barbie does too. There are many Computer software games with Barbie in them, being a star or you just designing your own Barbie, now let me tell you, that is a cool game. It is also a way to guide the kids in the high tech world that they live in. Right now Barbie owns about 120 new dresses. More than 105 million yards of fabric is used to create new clothes for her every year. After stamp collecting, Barbie collecting is the most popular hobby in America. Since Barbie was first introduced in 1959, she has had over 75 different jobs. Barbie was later given family and friends. She was also given a wonderful boyfriend, who was named after Ruth Handler's youngest son. She also has a cute little sister who we call Skipper. As Barbie gets hold the more friends seem to come her way. Barbie has given lots of kids a higher self-esteem by showing them that you can do anything you put your heart to. Barbie has been a surgeon, a president candidate, an airplane pilot, a dentist, etc. Many children look up to Barbie an
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