Why was Barbie so hideous back in 1959 and the 60s?

Her in the 70s

00s

Boobs and eyeliner were *in*.

1969 Barbie looks just like Christina Applegate circa early Kelly Bundy.

Barbie in 2015 looks better than 1959. Bitch had a lot of work done!

You'd look bad too if you had no genitals.

Makeup was different back then

Uneeda's Katrina Lenk doll was the prettiest of the Barbie knock-offs.

Better than 1939

I think beauty standards for women changed dramatically

Oh, puhleeze, r10. 1939 would be far more like....

Early Barbie was like Mary Tyler Moore in early seasons. The heavy eyeliner.

Also, the early Barbies did not have "real" eyelashes, they used some kind of plastic protrusion to simulate eyelashes. Hence, the weird look.

I really like that atomic fabric pattern on the Miss Suzette at r9.

No, early (first) Barbie was like Lilli. Some 70's Barbies had an MTM or Marlo look.

I am feeling deeply triggered by all these pageant Barbie doll images.

Sometimes known as the Marlo Barbie...

Today I learned…a lot of the time Barbie looked like a whore.

We thought the pointier the tits the better.

R18, well, she sort of WAS a whore. She was based on a German doll named Lilli, who was meant to be a prostitute. Lilli was given out as a gag gift at bachelor parties and, reputedly, by brothels as a souvenir. That's how Barbie came by her exaggerated curves and hard makeup.

Her eyes in 1993 are disgustingly oversized. She looks like a Margaret Keane painting.

She looks like a tart!

1964 looks like she has fetal alcohol syndrome

Don't they now have fat barbie and trans barbie? I think barbies days of looking good are over.

Barbie was on LSD back in the 1960s. Now she is a coke whore with bad plastic surgery and fillers so she is getting a reality show to choke out Ken.

[quote]Sometimes known as the Marlo Barbie..

I get pegged with that one on my birthday.

Mamie Eisenhower was proud

Barbie looked like a hard little streetwalker who'd cut a bitch.

No one cares about Barbie in the 1950s and 60s.

That's why this thread bombed.

I have no interest in girls toys but genuinely find the evolution of the beauty standards quite interesting

1959 Barbie was the most beautiful.

All the current recent ones look like Real Housewives of Orange County, complete with face-puffing fillers. They're just missing the duck lips.

The original one looked like Debi Mazar. (Was she created in New York City by any chance?)

The current one looks like Tamra Judge.

Wait until what they look like from 2022 to 2050, OP

Barb really clung to pencil brows, blue shadow and a rose lip for a long time.

Imo from the pics above, 2008 is the only sexy one. 1977 looks the healthiest and cutest.

Dovima - Famous 50’s model looked similar to 50’s Barbie.

Dovima- Dorothy Virginia Margaret. Her real name. Ended up as a hostess in a pizzeria in Fort Lauderdale. She was fabulous and an Avedon favorite.

The only Barbie doll I ever had was a gift from a clueless relative. Back then I hated dolls and I hated dance, so why anyone thought to get me a Dance Workout Barbie is a mystery.

She came with a memorable VHS workout tape.

Barbie has a new face every few years. Fake bitch.

Barbie is a sellout whore who lets cultural trends determine everything about her.

Talk about a punchable face?

R39 is right. She was all MAGA one minute then BLM the next when it became popular.

Cunt.

Does her Vagina smell much ?

Debi Mazar really looks like older model Barbie.

Madonna looks like…. A fucking monster.

I had always heard that they were used for insertion

Those stories are best left in the 60’s & 70’s

What happened between 1967 and 1968? Barbie went from a demure pretty teenager to a used-up drug-addled slut.

We don’t talk enough about LIFE IN THE DREAMHOUSE, and all the Intimate Rituals that Ken had going with the Jonas Brother-looking twink rival boy for Barbie’s love.

R47 no. They wouldn’t

R44 many years ago I went to a straight guy’s bachelor party. A stripper was hired for entertainment and during her act she started fucking herself with a Barbie doll. Then she took it out and kissed it and started licking it. The whole scene was revolting, and not just to me, but the groom and most other straight guys who were watching.

R49 ok

Look at fashion magazines from the late 50s and early 60s. Barbie is made up just like the models.

R29 The OP jr is a fat dumb ass.

Funny you should say that, r14. 1994 Barbie looks just like JonBenet!

1985 Barbie looks like Tan Mom.

This is who I think looks like Barbie: Debi Mazur—she’s a real close match.

She had a way with elephants, r35...

Lol R23: Wide-set eyes became a popular beauty standard after Jackie Kennedy became First Lady.

Jackie...

R56 but aren’t you either born with them or not?

Barbie was NOT hideous. However, Midge WAS plain.

Midge was so boring she was dropped as Barbies friend. In 1968 Barbie had two new friends, fellow blonde Stacy, and Christie, the first black Barbie doll (different from Black Barbie, introduced in 1980).

They eventually did bring back Midge, r60. She married Alan and became Midge Hadley Sherwood. Lucky girl, considering how plain she was. When she was re-introduced, she'd obviously had work done. I'm convinced that Chatty Cathy grew up to be Midge.

[quote]Lucky girl, considering how plain she was.

She's a good cook and does anal.

Don't ask me, I'm just a girl

Don't tell me the bitch didn't have a ton of work done...

She married Allan, Ken’s “Buddy”?

Oh, honey, Allan and Ken were doing a lot more than wrestling at those sleepovers, Midge. He didn’t marry your ugly ass because he loved you, you’re his beard, dear.

Another of Allan

I disagree. 1959 Barbie looks fierce, chic, and sharp. The modern cow faced barbies all resemble idiot mall rats.

I think she's incredible.

r65...

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n 1991, Midge married her boyfriend, Alan Sherwood, who was introduced in 1964 to be a friend of Ken. In 2003, Midge and Alan were shown with a little boy named Ryan. It was not confirmed his age, but if you compare his height to Chelsea Kelly Roberts then he looks about three or four years old.

Midge also got pregnant with another baby named Nikki. On Nikki's first birthday, she recieved a dog, which was left unnamed. In shown in the photo album that came with the basic Midge doll, one of photos shows a third child, still a baby. The baby's name turned out to be Cassandra.

In 2013, Midge moved to California. She made no mention of Alan or her children, so it is assumed that they were discontinued completely as parents complained, stating that Midge was too young to be a mother. In Everything Barbie Wiki, we are going to say that they broke up and Alan is caring for the children.

‘79 Barbie was starting to look like Tan Mom.

R69 Midge must have been a complete mess to lose custody of her kids. Either drugs, mental illness or both.

I think it comes down to her friendship with Barbie, r71. I call it the Barbie-Midge Complex. The perfect over-achieving teenage fashion model type is going to choose the plain girl as best friend to eliminate any competition. It was rumored that Barbie implored Mattel to also make her fat. Not wanting to add the expense of a completely separate wardrobe for Midge, Mattel said no. Still, with her plain Jane looks, Midge was always going to have self esteem issues, even dolled up in Barbie's glamorous hand me downs.

R71 sounds more like she abandoned her family to relive her youth. There was no custody battle. She wants nothing to do with them

Midge literally had plastic surgery...

In the '60s, Barbie was blond but looked like she she had East Asian eyes.

R55) Dovima was all kinds of fabulousness. She needs her own thread.

Hey wait a second. Am I on a gay site?

I had to buy a birthday present for a little girl who liked Barbies, a couple of years back, and I selected a 'Sweet Talking Ken'.

"Sweet Talking Ken™ Doll Ken® is Barbie® doll's ultimate boyfriend for every occasion. Why?

Because the Ken® doll says whatever you want him to say (you talk, he records up to 5 seconds of sound, and plays back).

Just press the button on Ken® doll's chest to record your voice (a microphone is built into his chest) and then by pressing 3 different buttons on Ken® doll's lower back you can play back in a high, normal or low pitch. Sweet!"

Well, you can imagine how much fun we had with that before I gift wrapped it. Sweet Talking Ken ended up quite the potty mouth.

I still have all my dolls. Ken and Alan are in great shape. Barbie is depressed. Skipper is annoying, Francie is introverted, Midge is kooky, Scooter is mute, Ricky is stoned.

I notice you didn't mention Julia.

I mean Ken didn’t have any Genitalia! So why would Barbie look good? She couldn’t get any and tell G.I. Joe showed up

R35, I thought Barbie looked more like Jean Patchett.

6 terrific teen-age tunes

Y'all forgot about Growing Up Skipper!

Skipper was Barbies sister. Not her friend. Barbie probably just ignored her

And then Tutti came along and ruined everything.

Come to think of it, yes, Barbs did seem to have an Arlene Dahl or Jayne Meadows aspirational aura about her in her early days.

Did they ever make a “Barbra Streisand” Barbie? One with only one allowed left photograph-able side?! ;)

Idk but Britney had her own Barbie

You bitches asked for it...

R87, there is a Streisand Barbie: She's dressed in Barb's late 60's gear:

Barbie had resting bitch face until 1966

Alien Barbie

R13- Mary looked SO pretty and youthful the first two seasons of MTM. After that she looked older and not as pretty.

Barbie famously called Midge a “Homely Kunt”

It’s the 21st century BITCHES- Mattel is completely my out with a TRANS Barbie .

You think Barbie was hideous, get a load of 1976 Marie Osmond.

R95 she’s never called me that!

Barbie was getting all she could handle on the side from Tyson.

The original Barbie resembled DL fave Dolores Gray.

Dolores

In motion.

I LOVED blonde Nazi Barbie from 1959. My sisters somehow had an original in her striped black-and-white bathing suit, with her vaguely menacing eyes staring through you like the eyes of a tiny weasel.

But my personal favorite was the brunette Jackie-inspired Barbie from 1961, with her bubble-cut (meaning bouffant, of course) modernity.

Here she is, trying to look away from the horror of seeing Lyndon Johnson complete the crime by forcing her to witness his inauguration on the coffin plane.

Barbie from the 1950's-1970's looked amazing. It's the 1980's when her looks started to go downhill. Just like Mickey and Minnie Mouse both looked better in the 1920's than they do today.

My friend was an ER nurse and she said it would blow your mind if you knew how many of these we have to extricate from men & women!!!

Do you know who did the original Barbie in? Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! She'd take your old one and melt it down with a maniacal grin on her face.

R96, that was Marie Osmond’s original face.

I must have them ALL!