![]() and Growing up Ginger: #9222 ©1967 Mattel, Inc. ![]() They are marked: #7259 Growing up Skipper: © 1967 Mattel Inc. She was only available in 1976, which makes her much harder to find on the secondary market, and especially in the box. In 1976, the brunette Growing Up Ginger was offered as well. In 1975 she had pale blonde colored hair, and when the 2nd version was available in 1976 she had slightly shorter, golden colored hair. Mattel received numerous letters from women’s groups and parents complaining about the doll and her ability to grow breasts. Once she was for sale in stores newspapers all over the country had a heyday writing articles about this Super Teen Skipper. Skipper Doll Clothes (1 - 40 of 2,000+ results) Price () Shipping All Sellers Cute mix and match outfits for barbies' sister skipper (vintage & modern dolls) Handmade barbie clothes gordon4aday (3,931) 14.00 More like this More colors Handmade Summer Shirt and shorts set for skipper sized fashion doll Doll clothes YellowOrigamiBird (285) 9. The box she’s packaged in reads: 2 dolls in 1 for twice as much fun! She went from a cute little girl to a tall, curvy teenager, according to the packaging. Growing up Skipper debuted at the New York Toy Fair in February 1975. To return to a little girl, merely turn her arm all the way around clockwise. As you turn her arm her breasts would develop as well. (I had a very pretty primary school teacher who used to wear a dress just like Skipper’s.) Dying for her friend Ginger now, as these dolls are a great example of Mattel’s gimmick-mad days for Barbie back in the 70’s.In 19 Mattel released two interesting and controversial dolls: #7259 Growing Up Skipper, and #9222 Growing Up Ginger.īoth dolls had blue eyes and the ability to grow from 9 inches tall (9 ¼ inches was the height of the original Skipper) to 9 ¾ inches in height simply by turning her left arm all the way around counter clockwise. The socks are from her original outfit,) as I have a real thing for bandanna prints and remember them fondly from that time. The clothing need not match, but the more ridiculous and showy it can be made. ![]() I also got an NRFP outfit from the range, which is one of my favourites from it, (#9023. At last she goes up full length, and ap- some grown person's skirts. Mattel Growing Up Skipper Doll: A doll to match little girls’ dreams of growing up. She also had a range of ‘growing up’ outfits, similar in packaging to the ‘Get Ups ‘N Go’ range, consisting of several pieces to make an outfit for her ‘little girl’ self and for her ‘teenage’ self. She was sold all the way up through 1977, when the entire Barbie line got a ‘Superstar’ overhaul, (though the novel gimmicks still stayed on, such as moving arms, winking eyes and ‘kissing’ lips.) This is the 1975 first issue of the doll, with the shaggy, layered mane - very 70’s! She was certainly NOT recalled from toy shelves as many blogs insist. 1-24 of 866 results for 'skipper doll clothes'. Although there was one male friend who had one and whose dad didn’t approve of him playing with dolls, and he would regularly confiscate it, (though oddly enough, never threw it away! He just hid it in weird areas of the house, so it became a fun daily game of ‘Find Skipper’ for my friend and I! We would find her in the linen closet, the laundry basket, under his parents’ bed, under the cushions in the sofa, in the pantry… once even in the fridge behind the milk!!! LOL ) …. She was just seen as a novelty, really, that was fun until you got bored with the whole ‘shape-shifting’ gimmick. Truth be told, I don’t remember any such controversy at all around the doll here in Australia at the time she was sold, as many of my friends had one. Many newspapers at the time ran articles about that ‘controversy’. The ‘curvy’ bit is what apparently outraged some women’s groups and parents in the United States, as she also grows a modest pair of breasts. Indeed, one of the most controversial was a doll that went through puberty with the mere flick of an arm (if only it were that easy!) Growing Up Skipper was released in 1975, and her mechanism is quite fascinating, with a soft rubbery upper torso that allows her to grow ‘slimmer, taller (three-quarters of an inch) and CURVY’. Skipper has her own wardrobe that she shares with her same size friend Skooter, also vinyl cases, transportation, houses and accessories. The mid 1970’s were indeed a strange time, and those times were just as strange at Mattel, where all sorts of weird and wonderful gimmicks (usually to do with some sort of sport or action movement) were foisted upon Barbie and her friends. She made her market debut in 1964 along with Kens best friend the Allan doll. No Skipper collection is complete without this gal IMO, as she symbolises a very interesting and unique period in Mattel history.
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