Doll-A-Day 2019 #215: Nape Curl Talking Barbie

  You may have seen a different version of today's doll on the blog before. I showed you my red haired Nape Curl Talking Barbie in my post HERE. Today's girl is a brunette.

Talking Barbie first appeared in 1967,with a long braid. (You can see mine HERE.)  The second version,which includes today's doll,had what is referred to as a 'nape curl' hair style. In other words, the hair curls at the nape,or the back, of the neck.
 

Her hair should be curled tightly at the back of her neck. It's not as tightly curled as it was originally,so the hair isn't as close to her neck.
 

It kind of looks nice fluffy like this, but her side spit curls seem to get lost in the sides of the hair.

Maybe I could just recurl those. Of course, you've been told how bad I am with hair,so you know that's probably not going to happen any time soon.

Her forehead spit curl is still in pretty good shape though.
 

The third version also had a nape curl style,but she had centered eyes. This is the second version, since she has side glance eyes.

They aren't really glancing to the side,but they aren't centered.

Like a lot of Talking Barbies,this lady has an issue with one of her legs. It has fallen off,a common problem for these dolls.

her situation does allow her to do this pose though.

She has rooted eyelashes,which is one of the best things about the Mod Era Barbies.

The outfit she's wearing is called Travel Togethers.

It's a Barbie fashion from 1967.

It consists of the hat, jacket, and skirt...

 

...and red closed toe pumps, which I don't have. As usual,I am sadly lacking in shoes.

  That's today's doll. See you tomorrow for another one.
   

Doll-A-Day 2019 #69: Barbie's '60th' Week: Twist 'N Turn Barbie

  Happy birthday to me today! The doll for today is from my favourite Barbie era,the Mod Era.

 

 

She's Twist 'N Turn Barbie.
 

  They were so called because of their twist and Turn waists.

Twist 'N Turns were produced in 1967 and 1968.

 

The main difference between the dolls seems to be their bathing suits. The 1967 version came in a two piece orange bathing suit with a cover-up made of mesh with orange trim. The 1968 version came wearing a two piece bathing suit consisting of hot pink vinyl bottom and checked knitted top with a green vinyl belt. Doesn't everybody wear a sweater and a belt when they go swimming?

  The hair colours available for the TNT were given names. There was 'Sun Kissed',which was a pale blonde, 'Summer Sand',which was sort of a dirty blonde.Red or Titian just went by their regular names...

This is Emma's Titian girl,which seems to be on permanent loan to me. You can see her post HERE.

...but Mattel really went to town with the brunettes. There were a couple of brown shades called 'Go Go Co Co', a medium brown, and 'Chocolate Bon Bon', a dark brown.

This is my Chocolate Bon Bon,and you can see her post HERE.

This girl seems to be a Go Go Co Co.

She seems to have gathered some fluff on her eyelashes during all of her wardrobe changes.

  The Mod Era dolls appeal to me because of their high colour faces and rooted eyelashes.

 

 Most of the clothes are high colour too.

I think I might, majoritively, prefer the style of the earlier clothes though. But not on these dolls. Does that make sense?

She's wearing the blouse from 1968's  'Scene Stealers'.

  That's it for Barbie's '6oth' Week. I hope you enjoyed it. I had fun digging around in my Barbie stuff. Some of it I had forgotten I had,so it was nice to refresh my memory.

This is Walking Jamie's 'Furry Friends' coat, from the Sears exclusive gift set sold in 1970-71.

This dress is Knit Hit, from 1969.

  Tomorrow we're back to regular random posts, if that makes sense!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #67:Barbie's '60th' Week: Talking Barbie, Side Ponytail

  Today's Barbie's 60th birthday Week doll is this lovely girl.

And she's very embarrassed about the hole in her stocking. (She was hoping it wouldn't show.) So please don't mention it.

  She's a Talking Barbie, but she's different from the 'Nape Curl' Talking Barbie we looked at the other day.

 

This one is the side ponytail Talking Barbie.

She was the first version of Talking Barbie.

  I thought that tail was a braid, but it's actually just a ponytail with three ribbons.

This version of Talking Barbie came out in 1968.

She's wearing Little Bow Pink from 1969-70.

I am trying to get a little ahead of things, because Sunday is my birthday, and I won't be home. Also,My friend Lori,who you may have read about here,has sold her house,and we'll be taking a trip to Georgia on Wednesday to look at houses. Yes, she's moving away. I don't make friends very easily. I meet few people I like, and even fewer I would spend time with. So I'm really going to miss Lori. She's my only local friend besides my family. We've been friends since High School.

  So anyway, I was trying to get some extra photos done today. It was hard enough because my back,hips, and legs have been bothering me a lot this week, on top of which, I have a lousy cold. Well, of course things can never go easily. During the photo shoot for today's doll,my camera battery died. My batteries don't hold a charge any more,so the one that was already charged was dead already. Ken has done something with my charger, so I couldn't find it. So I had an abbreviated photo shoot.

One thing actually did work out for a change. I started taking her picture yesterday,without doing her hair. This is the way it was when I got her.

She looks very similar to the Hair Fair heads we saw yesterday.

I knew she needed three hot pink hair ribbons, but I didn't think I had any. But I did!

 

 I had a roll of hot pink ribbon. It's not the right kind, but it works. At least something worked out because my week has been crap.

Of course,not everything could possibly work out. How do I get this thing to lay down?!

 So now she has new hair ribbons to go with the new body she had to borrow,because,as a Talking Barbie her legs, and even one arm,had fallen off!
 

She was a torso with one arm. She did still have her pull ring though. Not that she works.

This version of Talking Barbie came as a redhead,a blonde,or a brunette,in various shades of brown hair. She would have looked like this in her box.

 The bathing suit was a two piece with hot pink vinyl bottom and a knitted sweatery top. Who swims in something like that?!

   I was disappointed with my pictures for this post,but my battery died and these were all I got,so cut me a little slack.

  Why is it the dolls with no arms and legs have the best heads, with nice colouring and all their eye lashes and hair?!

Oh! There was one other good thing this week! I actually won something! I never win anything! I'm on a few doll Facebook pages, and one had a contest for best coat photo. There were one hundred entries, and I was one of the ten chosen! I won with this picture of my Patience doll, wearing a coat set by Franklin Mint for their Princess Anastasia doll.

There were ten winners, but only five prizes, so it was first come first served. I chose the modern Terri Lee School Days outfit. Now my repro Terri Lee won't have to be naked anymore. 

  That's it for today.

  Tomorrow,if I can get my battery charged, we'll see another Barbie.