Fashion Photo PJ Repro Incoming!! I NEED HER (I know I say that a lot but that's because there's so many gorgeous dolls I NEED to have).
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A gimmick in toys that feels particularly 90s to me, even though I have no evidence to suggest whether it actually was more popular in the 90s, is being scented. Especially artificial fruit scents that smell more like colours than fruit.
I'll be honest - this post was partly inspired by a Reddit post I read a while ago and kind of can't stop thinking about, where someone found a 1993 Paint n Dazzle Barbie that was mysteriously grape-scented and they weren't sure if this was intentional.
(There's also a whole other post in Paint n Dazzle Barbie and other customizable dolls of that ilk - but right now I'm thinking about scents.)
When I think of scented Barbies, my mind goes immediately to my buddy Blaine and the rest of the Cali Girls line, who were sunscreen scented.
But naturally, this wasn't the only one. Back in the 1980s, when Barbie still hung around with PJ, there was a rose-scented PJ.
Remarkable to me specifically because you don't get a lot of rose-scented children's toys.
Mixing the two conceptually was Tropical Splash Barbie from 1994 - like the 2000s Cali Girl line she is a beachy fun Barbie, but like Sweet Roses PJ she is floral scented.
Sweet N Pretty were a series of fashion packs from 1994 featuring a variety of different outfits in either peppermint or tutti fruitti scents.
(It took me three tries to spell tutti fruitti, and I was looking at a picture of the product in question.)
The 1998 Fruit Fantasy Barbies lean more into what I think of as the classic fruity flavours.
But I think Fruit Style Barbie and her friends from 2002 really round up the gang. I can practically smell the fruity scents and I don't own one.
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I need a husband who will wear Barbie pjs and cuddle me
If you would like to know why branches hair is down is because I cba tryna find a way to give him his spike ahh hair
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A little more tactical-practical before integrating the crew. Weird Bab from the trash isn't even the trashiest.
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malibu barbie lesbian polycule 💛🩵🩷
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Ana Cruz Kayne at the world premiere of Barbie, in Los Angeles
Wearing a traditional Filipino terno top, designed by Filipino fashion designer Dennis Lustico. Worn with a Hervé Leger metallic fringe gown.
Styled by PJ Pascual:
'Celebrating her Filipino American heritage, Ana Cruz Kayne and I collaborated on an ensemble where the East meets the West. Her custom made beaded butterfly sleeve top represents the Philippines. On the other hand, the fringe dress represents her American roots. Lastly, Pink is Barbie.' X
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I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.
At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them.
- lana del rey’s ride monologue
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An Extremely Goofy Story
An Extremely Goofy Story, starring Maxine and her friends; PJ and Barby, along with her father Goofy, his eventual girlfriend Sylvia, and don't forget the Gammas, especially Bradley and Tank^^
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One of the prominent scenes in the Barbie movie trailer is her discovery of her heels touching the ground. And that inspired me, but... it's surprisingly difficult to find information on Barbies who historically had flat feet.
When you look this up a lot of what you find at first is the 2015 announcement that some Barbies would now have articulated ankles - positioned as "the first time" in Barbie's history she could wear shoes that weren't heels. But I know that isn't quite true because I had a couple of Barbies growing up that had flat feet. It wasn't all, or even most, and those that could wear flat shoes couldn't also wear heels - but there were some!
Olympic Gymnast Barbie, for example, was released in 1995 as a tie-in for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, and she had flat feet.
And so does the 1993 Sun Jewel Barbie!An
Some articles refer to some Barbies from the 1970s have flat feet and there are vintage flat shoes that support this - but I can't positively confirm the first Barbie to have flat feet.
And at a certain point you start to feel a little creepy, googling pictures of Barbies to zoom in on their feet.
I spent a long time looking at Free Moving Barbie from 1975, who was released wearing flat tennis shoes, determining the relatively flatness of her foot until I realised that this was a sign I had made some wrong choices in my life.
(To me it looks like Barbie has angled feet and PJ has flat feet even though they are wearing matching tennis shoes, but I'm by no means convinced.)
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