So modest, in fact, no brassiere was included. She was designed as a response to requests for Barbie to have children Mattel felt that a little sister would be a. Changing Skipper simply involves grasping her delicate wrist between the forefinger and thumb and revolving her left arm all the way around counterclockwise.Īs the arm completes its 360-degree turn, Skipper grows nearly an inch taller from the waist, develops a slightly more definable posterior, and sprouts what Rubenstein calls “a modest bustline.” The first Skipper doll was eight years old. “We feel it may be a trend toward reflecting reality and recognizing maturity,” Joel K Rubenstein, director of marketing for Mattel explained. Officials at Mattel Toys, which manufactures the dolls, say they recognize the doll could activate a lot of curiosity in the 4-to 10-year-olds for whom it is designed, but they believe the Growing-Up Skipper has some good effects. Now, with her flat chest expanded, her curves accentuated and height boosted, she has matured past her older but still underdeveloped sister into a young woman. The smaller, under-developed younger “sister” of the Barbie doll has advanced into puberty.
Now there’s a harmless way to reverse the aging process, as often and as quickly as they want.Ī little arm twisting will change a blossoming young woman into a tree-climbing pre-adolescent, and back again - provided the young “woman” is a doll. Make her grow from a young girl to a teenager in seconds!įrom the Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, Kansas) June 16, 1975įor moms and dads, children always seem to grow up too fast. Growing up Skipper: She’s 2 dolls in 1 for twice as much fun!
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