Fashion Mode Dolls Made by Mattel

The original Barbie fashion doll from March 1959

Fashion dolls are dolls primarily designed to be dressed to reflect way trends. They are manufactured both as toys for children to play with and as collectibles for adults. The dolls are unremarkably modeled later on teen girls or adult women, though child, male person, and even some non-human variants exist. Contemporary fashion dolls are typically made of vinyl or another plastic, although 3D software versions exist.

Barbie was released past the American toy-company Mattel in 1959, and was followed by many similar vinyl style dolls intended every bit children's toys. The size of the Barbie, 11.5 inches (290 mm) set the standard often used by other manufacturers. But fashion dolls take been made in many different sizes varying from ten.5 inches (270 mm) to 36 inches (900 mm).

Costumers and seamstresses use fashion dolls as a canvass for their work. Customizers repaint faces, reroot pilus, or practice other alterations to the dolls themselves. Many of these works are one-of-a-kind. These artists are usually not continued to the original manufacturers and sell their piece of work to collectors. Despite these setbacks, the style doll market continues to expand, introducing a number of toys-based dolls including Hasbro'due south Equestria Girls dolls, Mattel's Barbie, Ever After Loftier, Monster High, MGA Entertainment'due south Bratz, Project Mc² and Arklu's Lottie Dolls that incorporate the utilise of fashion dolls and toys.

Before 19th century [edit]

Pandora dolls [edit]

Fashion dolls were normally used throughout the courts in Europe in the 16th century to show the tactile qualities of manner which could not be incorporated into paintings or described to tailors in words. A letter dated 1515 and sent past Federico Gonzaga on behalf of King Francis I of France to his mother Isabella d'Este asks her to send a fashion doll to the French courtroom and so that copies of her style might be made for the women of France.^[1] Mary, Queen of Scots had dolls equally an developed in Scotland which were dressed by her tailors.^[2]

Such mode dolls may accept been in use equally early as the 14th century,^[3] and were known from 1642 onward as 'Pandora'.^[3]

During the menstruum of 1715–1785, Pandora dolls became more common and were manufactured and used by seamstresses, miliners, tailors and fashion merchants, and displayed in their shop windows and sent beyond borders to illustrate the latest fashion trends.^[4] Rose Bertin was amongst those fashion merchants who used them. Pandora dolls barbarous out of manner in the late 18th-century, when illustrated fashion magazines became common afterwards the publication of Cabinet des Modes, and were finally banned past Napoleon I, who feared that they could exist used to smuggle secret messages.^[5]

During the offset half of the 19th-century, fashion dolls were sometimes used to display fashion garments for clients earlier it was made in the salon of the milliner, seamstress or tailor, until Charles Frederick Worth introduced living human models in the 1850s. ^[6]

19th century [edit]

Bisque doll [edit]

Bisque doll advertising from the French visitor Jumeau, 1885

The earliest bisque dolls from French companies were manner dolls. These dominated the market betwixt approximately 1860 and 1890.^[7] They were made to represent grown upwardly women and intended for children of flush families to play with and dress in contemporary fashions.^[vii] These dolls came from companies similar Jumeau, Bru, Gaultier, Rohmer, Simone and Huret, though their heads were frequently manufactured in Germany.^[7] In the Passage Choiseul area of Paris an industry grew around making clothing and accessories for the dolls.^[7] Child similar bisque dolls appeared in the mid-19th century and overtook the market place towards the end of the century.^[vii]

20th century and Mod age [edit]

Cissy [edit]

The get-go American fashion doll, Cissy, was released past the Alexander Doll Visitor in 1955. Cissy sported a pronounced bust and high-heeled shoes.^[8]

Barbie [edit]

Barbie was launched by the American toy company Mattel in 1959, inspired past the German Bild Lilli doll. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years.

Many fashion doll lines take been inspired past Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Platonic Toy Company in 1962.^[9] Advertised as "The Doll You Love to Dress", Tammy was portrayed equally a young American teenager, more than "girl next door" than the cosmopolitan image of Barbie.^[9] Sindy was created by the British Pedigree Dolls & Toys visitor in 1963 equally a rival to Barbie with a wholesome look.

Tressy [edit]

American Character Doll Company released their "Tressy" style doll in 1963 to compete with Barbie. Tressy was beginning sold every bit an xi½" fashion doll, and, after being acquired by the Platonic Toy Visitor, by the late 60s was sold as a larger pre-teen doll. Tressy featured a long swatch of hair that could be pulled out of the top of the doll's head by pushing a button on the doll's midriff; that machinery allowed children the power to comb the pilus in a multifariousness of styles. In the belatedly 1960s and early 1970s Ideal released several other large mode dolls with hair with adaptable length.

The Crissy Doll and friends are 16" and Velvet Doll and friends are 18". British designer Mary Quant'southward Daisy doll from 1973 had a large selection of contemporary 70s manner designed by Quant.

Line of 12 [edit]

Integrity Toys released the ^[10] "line of 12" dolls conceived and created by Jason Wu in 2000 which included characters such as Dania Zarr and Baroness Agness Von Weiss, marketed to adult collectors.

In 2005,^[11] London artists Desmond Lingard and Charles Fegen, created Sybarites, xvi" resin creative person-dolls every bit style dolls for adult collectors. Paul Pham also creates 16" Numina dolls under the company proper noun ^[12] for adult collectors.

Fulla doll [edit]

Fulla is marketed to children of Islamic and Heart-Eastern countries equally an alternative to Barbie. The concept of her evolved around 1999, and she hit stores in late 2003.^[13]

Bratz [edit]

Bratz were released in 2001, designed past Carter Bryant and manufactured past California toy visitor MGA Entertainment.^[fourteen] They are distinguished by large heads with skinny bodies and lush, glossy lips.^[14]

Mattel dolls [edit]

Mattel introduced the My Scene line in 2002 and the Flavas line in 2003 to rival Bratz.^{[15] [xvi] [17]}

In 2010 Mattel launched the Monster High doll line, based on fantasy and horror monsters. After, they launched a spinoff in 2013, titled Ever Afterwards Loftier, inspired by fairytales. In 2016, both lines went through a massive reboot and were discontinued presently after. Also in 2016, Mattel launched an animal-themed line titled Enchantimals; it was originally a spinoff of Ever Subsequently Loftier but became its own line soon after.^{[ citation needed ]}

Lamm dolls [edit]

In 2014, artist Nickolai Lamm unveiled Lammily,^[18] a way doll based on Lamm's study comparison Barbie'due south effigy with measurements matching those of an average 19-twelvemonth-old woman.^[19]

Asian dolls [edit]

Asian fashion dolls are fabricated by Asian manufacturers and primarily targeted to an Asian market place. Blythe dolls with oversized heads and color changing eyes were originally made by American company Kenner but are now produced by Japanese company Takara. Some other doll with an oversized head, Pullip, was created in 2003 in Korea. Japanese manner dolls marketed to children include Licca (introduced in 1967) and Jenny (introduced in 1982) by Takara Tomy.

Other [edit]

In the mid-1990s dolls like Gene Marshall from Ashton-Drake, Tyler Wentworth from Tonner and Alexandra Fairchild Ford from Madame Alexander appeared. They are between fifteen.v and 16 inches (395 and 410 mm), larger than other common mode dolls. Integrity Toys expanded into the sixteen" size with their ^[20] line including characters such as Adele Makeda and Elsa Lin. These dolls are mostly marketed to adult collectors.

See as well [edit]

• Activeness effigy
• Ball-jointed doll
• Glory doll
• Newspaper doll

References [edit]

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2. ^ Michael Pearce, Edinburgh Castle Enquiry: The dolls of Mary Queen of Scots (Celebrated Surround Scotland, 2018).
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4. ^ José Blanco F., Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst, Heather Vaughan Lee, Mary Doering:Vesture and Style: American Fashion from Caput to Toe
5. ^ Kate Nelson Best, The History of Way Journalism
6. ^ Tom Tierney:Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era Newspaper Dolls in Full Color
7. ^ ^{a b c d east} A Brief History of Antique Dolls, Part II - Virtually.com
8. ^ "Beatrice Alexander (1895-1990)". Jewish Virtual Library. 2017. Retrieved 1 Apr 2017.
9. ^ ^{a b} Stephens, Kay (2004-10-10). "Doll collectors relive their childhoods with Tammy, not Barbie". Associated Printing Newswires.
10. ^ Mode Royalty
11. ^ Superdoll Collectibles
12. ^ Dollcis
13. ^ Khaleej Times Online.com. ""Pulla" - the Arab world's Barbie". Retrieved July 21, 2006.
14. ^ ^{a b} Margaret, Talbot (December 5, 2006). "Piffling hotties: Barbie's new rivals". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on November 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-07 .
15. ^ "Toys: Flavas Of The Week". Newsweek. August iv, 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
16. ^ "To Lure Older Girls, Mattel Brings In a Hip-Hop Crow". Wall Street Journal. July 18, 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2010. (subscription required)
17. ^ "New Flava In Dolls: Barbies With Hip-hop Attitude". Dominicus Picket. July xxx, 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
18. ^ Wagstaff, Keith. "Meet Lammily, the Crowd-Funded 'Realistic' Alternative to Barbie". NBCNews.com . Retrieved viii March 2014.
19. ^ Stump, Scott (three July 2013). "'Normal' Barbie uses real women'southward measurements - TODAY.com". Today . Retrieved 8 March 2014.
20. ^ FR:xvi

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