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Barbie Deluxe Quick Curl (1975)

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Finished up my Doctor Barbie/Quick Curl Barbie repro redress!!!

Pretty simple custom, she's wearing the 1979 Wedding Party fashion with some additions; yellow ribbon belt and choker with added daisies and seed beads, yellow shoes (also with added daisies- it was a huge bitch to sew them into the plastic shoe lol) and a full hair restyle, complete with daisy in her hair! So basically I just covered her with flowers and called it a custom but I'm proud of her anyway lol I've always been in love with the very heavy Edwardian influence in some 70's fashions, especially the trend of lingerie dress-inspired wedding gowns a la Laura Ashley, and once I styled Barbie's hair I knew she would be the perfect candidate for this kind of outfit! I've named her Edwardian Springtime Barbie and I think she'd be a kind of proto-Angel Face Barbie if she had been released in the 70's like this, or perhaps this would've made a nice Quick Curl fashion pack lol Alternative names could be: -Mary Lennox's Dead Aunt Barbie -Mary Poppins Gets a Girlfriend Barbie -and Phyllis Schlafly: Time Traveler Barbie (lol) Considering I have had this doll sitting on a shelf for over a year with no clothes and unstyled hair, I'm glad I could actually turn her into something and focus on dolls I already own instead of just...buying another one and ignoring the rest of my collection lol

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As a tie-in for the Miss America Pageant, Barbie donned the crown and the sash as part of the Quick Curl line in the 1970s.

The crossover here made perfect sense, as of course at the time Barbie was most commonly known as a fashion model, and the line between runway and beauty pageant was quite narrow.

She also appeared as a Walk Lively Miss America doll.

Technically this was not herself a "Barbie" but was advertised as "I wear Barbie fashions too!". My favourite feature of this doll, however, is her floor length cape!

These were the only two Miss America tie-ins produced by Mattel, but if you search the phrase "miss america barbie" you will find several Miss America fashion dolls from the 1990s, advertised on reseller websites as Barbies but actually produced by toy company Kenner, now a subsidiary of Hasbro.