costume accessories: 1959 First EVER Barbie Commercial High Quaility HQ!

This is the first Barbie commercial that first aired during Mickey Mouse Club! This is more Quaility then our old upload we have enjoyed in the last year, too. :) Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara playing with paper dolls, and noticed that they had their regular adult roles. At that time, most children were dolls images of children. Recognizing that it might be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult body doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder ofMattel Toy Company. He was enthusiastic about the idea, as well as Mattel directors. During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came in a German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adults thought Lilli was, as handlers had in mind, so that bought them three of them. She was a daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilly appears to have been a popular character in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaperThe Bild newspaper. Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut in the American International Toy Fair in New York on 9 March 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday. Mattel acquired the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964 and production of Lilli was stopped. The first Barbie doll wore a black and white zebrastriped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail, and was either blonde or brunette available. The doll was marketed as the "Teen-Age Fashion Model", with her clothes created by Mattel fashion designer Charlotte Johnson. The first Barbie dolls were manufactured in Japan, with their clothes hand stitched by Japanese homeworkers. Around 350,000 Barbie dolls were sold in the first year of production. Barbie was one of the first toys that have a marketing strategy based extensively on television,Advertisements that are widely copied by other toys. It is estimated that more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries, with the well-known fact that three Barbie dolls are sold every second. The standard range of Barbie dolls and related accessories are approximately 1/6th scale, which is also known as scale play produced. Barbie products include not only the range of dolls with their clothes and accessories, but also a large selection of Barbie branded goodssuch as books, fashion items and video games. Barbie has appeared in a series of animated films and makes a brief guest appearance in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2 Is unique for a toy fashion doll, Barbie has received a cultural icon and awards, which are rare in the toy world. In 1974, a part of Times Square in New York City was renamed Barbie Boulevard for a week, while created in 1985 the artist Andy Warhol a painting of Barbie. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In aSeries of novels by Random House in the 1960s and published the names of her parents as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willow given, Wisconsin. Barbie has been said to attend Willow High School in Manhattan and International High School in New York City, on the basis of real-life Stuyvesant High School. Today the Barbie line is responsible for more than 80% of the profits Mattel.