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Who knows about the historical development of Barbie dolls?

1958, Barbie's mother Ruth? As one of the founders of Mattel, Handler officially founded the brand Barbie, which was named after the nickname of her eldest daughter Barbara. Ruth's original intention is to design a doll to walk into the life of an American girl as an adult woman and become her good friend, confidant and even life idol. Such a doll concept was unprecedented in the United States at that time. Ruth boldly tried, and after two years of market exploration, she finally won a total victory. Orders poured in, and Mattel even spent 10 years to make Barbie's production meet the market demand.

According to rough statistics, Barbie has worn more than 654.38 billion clothes since its birth, and about 100 new Barbie clothes are introduced every year. She has been engaged in hundreds of occupations and incarnated as women of different nationalities. She has her own boyfriend Ken and many close friends (Mickey, Christie, Stacy, Jamie, Tracy, Whitney, Witch, Steven, Teresa, Tara Lynn. . ), and her little sister Kelly, who also has many pets, including horses, cats, ponies, dogs and so on. Such an ever-changing angel symbolizes independence, freedom, love and dreams, and she has also become an unshakable big sister in the doll world. Of course, as far as the current market price of Barbie is concerned, compared with other dolls popular in the market, she is not so unattainable. But the culture brought by Barbie, Barbie's spirit and temperament have been infecting the growth of girls from generation to generation. This is beyond the reach of any other doll products at present. Being a woman like Barbie has always been the role model and ultimate dream of these generations of girls.