With only paper dolls and baby dolls to play with ... loud fashions and big hair craze of the early '90s" and had the longest hair to date, Barbie Media noted. In 1997, Mattel decided to give ...

I have to give my editor, Caroline Bleeke, credit for that, which is funny because I’ve written about the ‘90s before ... went to the Valley of the Dolls.” Were you influenced at all ...

noticed her daughter and her friends were more interested in the paper dolls that resembled adult women than they were in the baby dolls popular at the time. Handler saw Barbie as a way for girls ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls ... thousand Barbie dolls were sold in ...