


An awesome Facebook group on Skipper has fantastic photos and the members are really nice! To learn more about vintage Skipper, I highly recommend visiting " A Guide to Vintage Skippers" or getting my favorite research book below, "Skipper, Barbie Doll's Little Sister, Second Edition." And here is some good info on Skipper head molds. Her fashion designs were her own and inspired by trends at those times - from op art prints to funky bell-bottoms! #Skipper doll Growing - Up Skipper is a machine - girl as well as being Barbie's younger sister according to Mattel's guidelines. She has the same head mold and body (with 'growing up mechanism') as Growing Up Skipper, but she comes with brown hair and eyes. Skipper's early outfits were inspired by Barbie's fashions but, by 1966, her clothing no longer imitated her older sister's styles. Growing Up Ginger 9222 is sold in 1976 only. Because puberty doesn’t have to be complicated Oh what I would have done to see a ‘Growing up Ken’ doll. This concept was later used for Mattel's My Scene brand in 2007 with the 'Growing Up Glam' line, which. The face molds for skipper are more 'year molds' like '1980s' than they are specifically named. The gimmick of the doll, which led to much controversy in the newspapers, was that if Skipper's arm was rotated, the doll would become an inch taller and small breasts would appear on her rubber torso. To reverse back to an A cup, you just had to turn the arm backwards again. Steffie was a friend of Barbie and I believe came only on Barbie sized dolls. VINTAGE 1981 WESTERN SKIPPER DOLL 5029 MATTEL BARBIE original in box. Vintage TEEN SWEETHEART SKIPPER, 1987, NRFB No 4855. NOTE: The Barbie Value or Price Guide is based on the. Skipper had her own line of fashions, her own bedroom furniture and fun friends like Scooter, Ricky, Tiff and Fluff. With just a flick of the wrist, girls would see their Skipper doll grow an inch taller on her stomach and develop breasts that popped out from her concave rubber chest. 1974 MATTEL GROWING UP SKIPPER DOLL 7259 BARBIES LITTLE SISTER W/ BOX. Shes 2 Dolls in 1 For Twice as Much Fun, Make Her Grow From a Young Girl to a Teenager in Seconds. Growing Up Skipper (1977) The proportionate size of Barbie doll's bust has always been questioned. Mattel created Skipper for younger children who couldn't relate to older teen Barbie. Four Decades of America's Favorite Doll Sharon Korbeck. Includes descriptions and pictures of Skipper, Ginger and their clothing. Skipper, Barbie's little sister, was introduced in 1964. Growing Up Skipper Doll is one of the most well known of all the vintage Skipper dolls.
