Is there a Barbie doll in the world?

For half a century, Barbie created by Ruth has almost become the darling of little girls all over the world. With the popularity of this doll with big eyes and long hair, Barbie doll today is not only a toy, but also a symbol of American women and American culture, just like McDonald's and KFC all over the world. As the founder of this brand, Ruth has given dreams and hopes to women all over the world with her lifelong efforts. Ruth Handler was born in Denver, the capital of Colorado. Her parents were originally Polish. In order to avoid military service, they took a hot and dirty steamboat to the other side of the ocean, just like countless immigrants who came to the United States to find their dreams. Ruth's father is a blacksmith and supports Ruth and her nine sisters on a small income. Her mother worked hard for her family all day, but the hardships of life didn't seem to bring much harm to this big family. Mom and dad never lose their temper with their children. Later, Ruth Handler once recalled that as the youngest child, she never lacked love when growing up. It is because there is so much love from childhood that she will have childlike innocence and design a lovely Barbie doll. /kloc-When she was 0/9 years old, Ruth was only a sophomore. She is not tall, but full of curiosity. Curious about movies, she came to Hollywood alone, but she came to this tempting place not to be a movie star, but to study industrial design. Luckily, she got a job in the famous Paramount photo studio. Here, she met the love of her life, Elliot Handler. They soon fell in love and got married. 1942, ambitious Handler and his wife started their company in a garage. The original product was a wooden frame, Elliot developed the sample and Ruth was responsible for the sales. By chance, Handler tried to make small furniture from the waste left over from making picture frames and found that it sold well, so the company added another business to design and manufacture furniture for children's playrooms. A few years later, the company began to make money, and its main business turned to producing toys. 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Handler and their friend Manson started a company, which later became the most famous and successful doll production company. The name of the company is MATTEL, MATT is named after Manson, and EL is named after Elliot. At that time, Ruth had a daughter. As a mother and a businessman who makes toys, she attaches great importance to children's ideas. One day, she suddenly saw her daughter Barbara and a little boy playing with paper-cut dolls. These paper-cut dolls were not common babies at that time, but teenagers with their own careers and identities, which made her very addicted. "Why not be a mature doll?" Inspiration came into Ruth's mind. But the road to realization is arduous. Before Barbie was born, little girls' toys in the American market were mostly cute little angels, round and chubby, similar to the screen image of the famous child star Shirley Temple. This is an adult's imagination of children's toys, but judging from the interest of older children, such toys are slightly "naive". They need playmates their own age, not a baby. What do you want your doll to look like? Ruth thought hard. Just then, she needed to go to Europe on business, so Ruth came to Germany. Here, she saw a doll named "Lily", which was very beautiful. It was first made in 1955, and it was based on a famous cartoon image in the beard in the West German era. Lily is made of hard plastic with a height of 18 ~ 30 cm. Her long hair was tied in a ponytail and dragged behind her head, wearing a gorgeous dress. The figure is impeccable, all kinds of signs are available, and the clothes are also "exposed". So Ruth bought three "lilies" and brought them back to America. She told male colleagues in the company that she wanted to design a "mature" toy, but they thought that "Lily" clothes were too revealing, which was the product of satisfying male fantasies and not suitable for children. Ruth was not discouraged. She thought, why can't I combine these two points? What a child needs is a doll that grows up but is not exposed. A little girl needs not only a doll of the same age, but also an ideal image when she grows up. As a result, Barbie's appearance became more and more mature in Ruth's mind. With the help of company technicians and engineers, Barbie was born! Owning a Barbie doll may be a childhood dream of many girls. Changeable brand-name clothes and handsome boyfriends have made women brag for many years. Some people laugh at Barbie as a tool to corrupt women, while others love Barbie as much as their lives, saying that Barbie has given all ordinary women a little dream. Barbie has always been famous for her perfect figure, bright smile and "rich work experience". In the past 42 years, although Barbie has experienced various changes in appearance, race, skin color, hairstyle, language and even clothing, her healthy and uplifting image has always been the same. Out of concern for women, Ruth then invited fashion designer Charlotte Johnson to design clothes for Barbie. 1958, they obtained the patent right to produce Barbie dolls. This kind of doll will change an era. She is different from the previous doll. She is an adult, with slender limbs, fresh and moving. Although he has a good figure, he is tightly wrapped in beautiful clothes, and his face is as mysterious as Marilyn Monroe's, although his height is only 1 1.5 inches. Finally, Ruth gave her daughter Barbara a nickname "Barbie" for this lovely doll.