Doll-A_DAy2023 #180: Barbie and Ken Cut-Outs Go Together Fashions Paper Dolls

   Yesterday I promised you some vintage goodness today. Here it is. It's a set of Barbie and Ken paper dolls!

  This set is from 1962, (a very good year...), and published by Whitman.

It has the very long title of Barbie and Ken Cut-Outs Go Together Paper Dolls. (Shew! I'm exhausted now!)

Did all teenagers wear stuff like that for a Saturday date back then?!

The set fold open to reveal a picture of Barbie on the phone to, we can only assume, Ken the Peeping Tom next door. 

There is a slip in the folder just above Barbie's head, and one above the top dresser drawer, to store the dolls and fashions in the folder.

  When the right side is folded closed, there is a portrait of Barbie. who looks like she was surprised mid-lipsticking.

  The actual dolls are cardboard. Barbie is presented in her black and white stiped bathing suit, but Ken gets a whole outfit, with a t-shirt, a pair of shorts, and even knee socks!

And those 'Ken doll shoes'. Even though The Jam appropriated those in the late 70's, I still think of them as Ken doll shoes!

Actually, I have two vintage Barbie paper doll sets, and I have my Ken's mixed up. He should be this one.

I don't seem to have any of his clothes for this set though.

The paper clothes have those little notch closures. Have I mentioned before how much I hated paper doll clothes?! As soon as you'd get the things on, they'd fall off. So annoying!

  Some fo the fashions are based on real Barbie fashions, but a lot of them aren't.

Not real.

Real, but slightly different. The dog is attached by the way.

Real, because all teenagers dressed like that! Sorry about the bottom. I took these with my phone and missed cropping this one.
 

If you don't see the feet on the black one it looks like Olivia Newton-John at the end of Grease!

Yeah, that nurses hat should have been in thsi picture.

These two are definitely not real Barbie fashions!

Neither are these two. That one on the right has a removable belt piece.

More real ones.

And more fakes, although that red coat is close.

And here are the accessories

  That's it for today. See you tomorrow for more vintage goodness.