The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day. Product Code: 9024 Release Date: 1975 Little girl Skipper doll wore a pretty plaid jumper with a yellow vinyl belt and an orange turtleneck tricot dickie. A pink 'ice cream cone' for little Skipper and a soda bottle for teen Skipper were the. A cute young girl until you turn her arm, then she grows up before your eyes into a slim, curvy, tall teenager. Her attire, her teachers felt, was a little too mature for a junior high school student. Product Code: 9513 Release Date: 1976 Coordinates for Skipper doll this time were made of bright orange and yellow tricot stitched in green a yellow and orange skirt and smocked top for little Skipper doll and yellow slacks and an orange and yellow tie-front top for teen Skipper doll. Mattel Growing Up Skipper Doll: A doll to match little girls’ dreams of growing up. These fashion sets usually contained two sets of clothes (one for the little girl, and one for the grown up doll) and a few accessories, but they didn’t come with shoes. They could also be worn by Growing Up Ginger. Someone I know has told me the story of being called into the principal's office to be queried about her home life. With the introduction of Growing Up Skipper, Growing Up Fashions were released in 1975. 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. 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. Long peasant dress in pistachio, pink & black calico maxi dress withīlack bow at neck and white cotton lace trimmed attached apron.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). White pants, red sleeveless tricot shirt, flag decal, white cotton cap, blue vinyl

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Red, white plaid a-line skirt, white short sleeve blouse, black velveteen vest (matches Red, white plaid coat, black collar, black velveteen belt, matching tam. Have you ever heard about Growing Up Skipper and her secret This is how it ems to be a very simple mechanism s. Matching contrasting jacket, solid lime green pull on pants, yellow ribbon tied paper invitation. Yellow ribbed tank top, lime green, orange skirt, yellow vertical stripe, Top, cola bottle, ice cream cone & pink Taiwan flat shoes. Pink, blue & yellow maxi skirt, pink short skirt, pink & a yellow White & blue plaid jumper, blue blouse with white collar &Ĭuffs, 2 piece tricot swimsuit, white tricot knee socks, white tennis The young echidna is still small but is growing quickly. Red drawstring bag with flag, navy blue Taiwan flat shoes.ĩ166 Weekend Wardrobe Get-Ups N Go (1976) The Laguna Mountains Skipper, one of the rarest butterflies in San Diego County. Skirt bottom, blue bodice with white laces, white bloomers, white cap, Rotate the same arm backward, and she went back to pre-pubescence. When girls rotated Growing Up Skipper’s left arm forward, she grew an inch and developed breasts. By the mid-70’s, the company decided it was time for her to grow up a bit. Parents mostly hated this doll, as you can imagine, and Mattel wisely decided to stop selling it in 1977. Barbie’s younger sister, Skipper, was created by Mattel in 1964. Fortunately, Mattel did not give Growing Up Skipper acne and hormonal drama. Skipper had two Get Up N Go outfits, two Growing Up Fashionsĭress with white sleeves, Revolutionary war soldiers printed around According to Messy Nessy, this particular version of Skipper looked like a child, but when you rotated her arm she grew taller and got boobs.

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