![]() If she'd had Growing Up Skipper (long off the market by the time she was old enough to appreciate it), or perhaps if her teachers did, the whole incident could have been avoided. The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. Advanced: eBay Deals Find a Store Help Sell Watch List Expand. Vintage Barbie Skipper Growing Up Skipper Red/White Wrap Skirt 1975. Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day. Vintage Barbie Skipper Growing Up Skipper Red/White Wrap Skirt 1975. Her attire, her teachers felt, was a little too mature for a junior high school student. Someone I know has told me the story of being called into the principal's office to be queried about her home life. I suppose (again, never having been a prepubescent girl) geeklizzard isn't wrong to say that menstruation is more disruptive, if nothing else, than bigger tits, but the visible bodily changes can be traumatic too. Growing Up Skipper Complete (A) Face There is a faint brown mark on at her hairline which looks like a bit of a factory boo-boo. A friend, a year younger than I, says she had one of these growing up.įor actual women, I imagine, it was a way to experience the phenomenon at a remove, as it were. And if watching your innocent, naive “little girl Skipper” grow up within seconds into a bosomy teenager seems a bit much, you just turn her arm all the way around clockwise and she’s cute and young again.Maybe it's because I'm a man that I found this disturbing when I first learned of it-after all, I never had to deal with my own breasts growing, and the ensuing change in how I was regarded by my peers (actually, my breasts did grow, but I digress). So modest, in fact, no brassiere was included. Title: Doll:Growing Up Skipper Creator: Mattel, Inc. When Skippers left arm is rotated counterclockwise, she grows from a little girl to a 'slim and tall and curvy' teenager. Changing Skipper simply involves grasping her delicate wrist between the forefinger and thumb and revolving her left arm all the way around counterclockwise.Īs the arm completes its 360-degree turn, Skipper grows nearly an inch taller from the waist, develops a slightly more definable posterior, and sprouts what Rubenstein calls “a modest bustline.” The Strong National Museum of Play Rochester, United States. “We feel it may be a trend toward reflecting reality and recognizing maturity,” Joel K Rubenstein, director of marketing for Mattel explained. Officials at Mattel Toys, which manufactures the dolls, say they recognize the doll could activate a lot of curiosity in the 4-to 10-year-olds for whom it is designed, but they believe the Growing-Up Skipper has some good effects. Now, with her flat chest expanded, her curves accentuated and height boosted, she has matured past her older but still underdeveloped sister into a young woman. ![]() Doll is mint in a non-factory sealed original box but it is clear that it was never removed from the backer card, the extra clothes are all inside and the doll still has the clear plastic. The smaller, under-developed younger “sister” of the Barbie doll has advanced into puberty. View sold price and similar items: 1974 Mattel Barbie 7259 Growing Up Skipper MIB NRFB from Toys Trains and Other Old Stuff on Aug10:00 AM EDT. Growing Up Skipper Model 7259 Hair colors: Blond Current Value: 80 MIB. Now there’s a harmless way to reverse the aging process, as often and as quickly as they want.Ī little arm twisting will change a blossoming young woman into a tree-climbing pre-adolescent, and back again - provided the young “woman” is a doll. Growing Up Skipper was a way that Mattel tried making the dolls more lifelike. Make her grow from a young girl to a teenager in seconds!įrom the Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, Kansas) June 16, 1975įor moms and dads, children always seem to grow up too fast. 9:00 to 11:30 Workshop Beginning Pattern Design (Austin) 9:30 to 10:30 Souvenir Room (Pre-Order P/U) 9:30 to 12:00 Raffle Round Up Open. Her original outfit is pictured on the left. Wednesday, J(Convention Event Unofficial Convention Event) 8:30 to 11:30 Registration. By rotating her left arm, she could grow and develop small breasts. Growing up Skipper: She’s 2 dolls in 1 for twice as much fun! Growing Up Skipper 7259 was sold from 1975 - 1977.
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