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 commercial

Barbie isn’t just any doll, she happens to be the most famous of them all.

Barbie is still the most popular fashion doll ever created. That is simply because she is always changing when the fashion trends change. She wears everything from the Paris fashions to the more youthful look. For example, the creator of Barbie made many “look alike” dolls to resemble famous people such as the Beatles and Jackie Kennedy. In the 1970’s Barbie wore very different clothing just to be trendy. Barbie changed her skin color to a golden tan and she wore numerous different glittery disco outfits, her face was redone to look more life like, giving her an open mouth smile and bigger eyes.

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 and see her as an actual role model, I know I did. They think if she can do it, then so can they! Barbie has captured the hearts of many children now days

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