'It was f-king creepy,' said Dick Schnott, a 46-year-old father of 5 who remembers the original doll when his little sister. Skippers 'feature' was that when Skippers arm was rotated, the doll would become an inch taller and small breasts would appear on her rubber torso. A friend, a year younger than I, says she had one of these growing up.įor actual women, I imagine, it was a way to experience the phenomenon at a remove, as it were. 1975s original Growing Up Skipper stirred up controversy was released.

It seems really odd to us but idk I feel like the intention was good. I suppose (again, never having been a prepubescent girl) geeklizzard isn't wrong to say that menstruation is more disruptive, if nothing else, than bigger tits, but the visible bodily changes can be traumatic too. It's a bit weird but I can see how this was an attempt to maybe normalise growing breasts to little girls who maybe didn't get 'the talk' or any kind of puberty education from parents /school. VINTAGE 1981 WESTERN SKIPPER DOLL 5029 MATTEL BARBIE original in box. Vintage TEEN SWEETHEART SKIPPER, 1987, NRFB No 4855. Someone I know has told me the story of being called into the principal's office to be queried about her home life. 1974 MATTEL GROWING UP SKIPPER DOLL 7259 BARBIES LITTLE SISTER W/ BOX. With a flick of Skippers arm, the package says, her young owner can make the doll grow slim and tall and curvythe result of what a spokesman for Mattel, which manufacturers. Her attire, her teachers felt, was a little too mature for a junior high school student. Tags: Barbie, lesbian childhood memories, Skipper doll Tweet Great little video about one of the weirdest dolls ever sold, ' Growing Up Skipper ,' and one woman's memories of playing with its fascinating features. Indeed, as Mattel presented her, Growing-Up Skipper was quite bereft of higher. Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day. Nor has contemporary Barbie scholarship done anything to redeem the doll. Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day. Skipper Roberts is a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbies younger sister. Skipper Roberts is a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbies younger sister. (1) 1 product ratings - Vintage 1967 Growing Up Skipper Doll Barbie Mattel 7259 Hong Kong Working Tested. (1) 1 product ratings - Vintage 1967 Growing Up Skipper Doll Barbie Mattel 7259 Hong Kong Working Tested. The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. and a controversial Growing Up Skipper doll was created to demonstrate.

If she'd had Growing Up Skipper (long off the market by the time she was old enough to appreciate it), or perhaps if her teachers did, the whole incident could have been avoided.

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