I bought my first Barbie in 1960, I was in 1st grade. LOVED BARBIE!!!! My mom said I had to earn the money, so I did chores and earned $3. We went to the store and I got a brunette ponytail Barbie. My mom also let me get an outfit. I got Busy Gal because it had several pieces to mix and match. I LOVED the little book of outfits too. I started sewing for Barbie in 2nd grade. Still sewing and collecting dolls.
10:12 I didn't know that there were Barbies that closed their eyes like that, that Miss Barbie with Sleep Eyes is gorgeous and her mechanism is in perfect condition. Now I want one for my collection, I collect also with no rhyme or reason, usually I only collect things that catch my eye. Greetings from Mexico.
Isn't Miss Barbie with Sleep Eyes just mesmerizing? Collecting with "no rhyme or reason" can be the most fun because you end up with a diverse and truly personal collection. Thanks for tuning in all the way from Mexico! 🌟
I love my No. 3 Brown Hair Barbie. with her Original box, I have Talking Barbie in Box does not talk. I love my Miss Barbie with box , she came from Netherlands when I was at a Barbie Doll Show years ago. Cheers from Calgary, Canada
Love the education on these vintage gals and the information about the box! Learning about the dolls is sp fun...and motivating! I also love to hunt for thew treasures!
Rachel, I so LOVE your Mom's Barbie Collection:)!! Bradley Justice Yarbrough is wonderful at teaching us so much about Barbie's designers and history:)!! I always thought that the Barbie with the black and white bathing suit was the Number One Barbie, I had no idea that it was the Gay Parsian outfitted Barbie:)!! And The Barbie in the Bubble Dress with the Gay Parsian look is so glamorous:)!! I so LOVE the dress with the rabbit fur and her long white graceful gloves:)!! I was also surprised that her white stole was made of rabbit fur, I thought it was faux fur:)! And it is a shame that Charlotte Johnson never made the pink ballet dress because the graphics on the box made it look so pretty:)!! And I actually LOVE the bright blue eyes on the Miss Barbie or "sleepy eye" Barbie and I really LOVE the pink bathing suit with gold and pink beads on it as well as the gold platform shoes she is wearing:)!! Thank you Rachel for sharing your Mom's glamorous Barbie Collection and thank you Bradley Justice Yarbrough for all the history on Barbie:)!!
Wow, the Number One Barbie in Gay Parisienne is AMAZING! I noticed that the coloring on Rachel's Mom's Number One still has some nice "color"--- rather than pure white all over. So, Rachel's Mom must have kept that Number One away from sunlight. Good for her. ~~ I own many vintage Barbies (& friends and relatives), I do not have a Number One, but several Number Threes and Number Fours (since they are my favorites). Anyhow, such a nice video. Thank you Rachel, for putting this together for us! (PS- Bradley is great!)
We did a bunch of the building of it live streaming on Facebook back in the day. I wish I had filmed it for youtube. I was pregnant at the time and VERY tired LOL
I had the doll with the striped bathing suit, I think she had a big hat. I had one favourite Barbie piece of clothing. It was a Red Velvet A-line coat with bell sleeves and white Satin lining. My friends and I would take turns picking dolls then picking clothes. My red coat was always my favourite. I had many dolls and clothes because my aunt got the for me at thrift stores. My friends didn’t have many but maybe I. Needles to say, I loved Fashion Illustration and went on to Fashion Design School. I have American Girl Dolls, WW, ETC. hoping that my grand children and great grandchildren inherit the same interest. My daughter has the gene too. Now I love Tonner’s Dolls and already have 3. 92X16 and 1 X18 inch.) I plan to dress them in high fashion like Demuse. It is your fault that I love Tonner’s now. I just noticed my favourite coat. It is on the bottom of the box shown in black. Mine was red velvet. I really didn’t like the short curly hair.
Omg you have a number one...dream!! I do have a #3 with blue eye shadow, apparently rarer then the brown. Fun video...always love to see Bradley. Love your dress Rachel, Barbie has a similar one from the 80's. 💛
Hi Rachel, I’m from the uk 🇬🇧 love your doll store and your antiques I’ve been searching for a long time to get German Armund doll I’m not sure how to spell it correctly ,but the ones on eBay I don’t trust so much ,here in the uk we haven’t really got a lot of collection in the Victorian dolls not that I can see anywhere, I just love your collection if I lived in America I would totally visit your shop,happy Tuesday
I have this exact Talking Barbie that I repaired to talk, same hair color even. She mentions P.J. in her phrases, rather than Stacey, even though Stacey was still one of Barbie's friends in 1970. I often wish that Barbie would mention P.J., Stacey and Christie in her speech. I just love this group of dolls, I went through a phase where I collected quite a few Talkers and repaired several of them to talk. I still have a lot of them that need to be repaired, but I just kind of lost steam. I would describe Miss Barbie as 'peculiar' looking. :D
I would too...definitely. I remember seeing her in the discount stores in 64 or 65 when she was originally sold. I liked her swing and her packaging, but the doll itself did not attract me. I was about five. The shiny head and the staring eyes were very off-putting. I always, always wondered why Mattel greenlighted that particular doll head. Some of their marketing decisions have baffled me since childhood and I remember wondering, as a little girl, what these grownups at the big doll factory were thinking back then. (I was not a typical child, I was always wanting to know things other kids didn't want to know.) I badly wanted to ask them about Miss Barbie's alien-creature look, and why they produced the sullen face of Fashion Queen (another one I saw in the stores back then, and rejected for her strange unhappy face, even if I thought her wigs looked interesting), and the googly-eyed cartoony Midge head. I had coloring books with Barbie and Midge, and Midge always looked very pretty in them---but then the Midge I saw in the stores looked nothing like her, and reminded me of a Winchell Mahoney ventriloquist's dummy with her odd features. I remember being so puzzled about that! I held on to my Tammy dolls until Mattel changed its ways. Seriously. I was mad Tammy didn't have new clothes in the stores anymore, and I loved the Barbie fashions, but of course they wouldn't fit Tammy. So that meant...I needed a Barbie. I stood there and considered a Color Magic, but I knew my mother would think I was too young to be using liquid stuff on a doll to change hair colors and that it would be assumed the chemicals would get on the carpet somehow. So I didn't even ask. But she was at least a doll I could imagine owning. Eventually I got my first Barbie, an American Girl, and some incredibly nice clothes that came out at the same time. But those earlier dolls, no matter how much I wanted a Barbie, were just not acceptable to me. And I didn't relate to the bubblecut or the ponytail dolls---I wanted a Barbie that was somehow different from those rather dated styles. So once American Girl, that dazzing sophisticate, came along, with her cinnamon-haired, long swinging bob and tan skin with coral lips and fingernails, and then those teen pleasure puppies, the TNTs with their mod clothes and crazy earrings, I was so happy. They were everything I had wanted and couldn't put into words in 1965, standing in the store, looking up at the ones that could wear those great clothes that Tammy couldn't, but had these hard faces I couldn't love.
@@CissyPantsCrafts I don’t know the answer to that. I just don’t like to alter with mine, and I have no experience in Barbie competition rules. I have never attended Barbie convention but hope to in the future. Thanks for watching!
@@RachelHoffmanDolls Thanks Rachel. There is a competition at UFDC convention this year I was just wondering because of that. I’ve never been to a Barbie doll convention either. I sort of wanted to do it that year that it was the week before UFDC in the same space but wasn’t able to do it. Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions. For now, like you, I think I’ll just leave them alone and not do anything to them. I don’t really mind them being so pale.
Under no circumstances should you paint your dolls, in my opinion. If the dolls are cosmetically unappealing to you, you might consider selling them and buying dolls that are more attractive. But if you care about the dolls' value at all, you should definitely not alter them in a permanent way, as painting would. I have done extensive retouching on vintage dolls, and it's a very fiddly process. The pale skintone of the early dolls is a defining feature of the #1, #2 and #3 dolls, so you really don't want to try to alter that. Technically, this is a materials defect, as is the greasy face of the 1961 dolls and the 'melt' of the Miss Barbie head when the wigs are left on the doll for too long. Clearly the pale skintone issue was recognized pretty soon after production, as the #4 Barbie doll has a bright peachy skintone that is colorfast. To me, the #4 is the quintessential early Barbie doll, so if you really want that catalog-page look, you should collect #4 dolls. And #4 dolls are quite a bit less expensive to collect than the earlier three versions.
i very much enjoy Bradley, but these interviews make me feel uncomfortable for some reason. i don't understand it. Are Rachel and Bradley frenemies or something?? i keep picking up a vibe.
I bought my first Barbie in 1960, I was in 1st grade. LOVED BARBIE!!!! My mom said I had to earn the money, so I did chores and earned $3. We went to the store and I got a brunette ponytail Barbie. My mom also let me get an outfit. I got Busy Gal because it had several pieces to mix and match. I LOVED the little book of outfits too. I started sewing for Barbie in 2nd grade. Still sewing and collecting dolls.
Bradley is awesome, I can listen to him talk about Dolls all day ❤
Love your vintage collection enjoy watching vintage Barbie collections Sophia Maria!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
10:12 I didn't know that there were Barbies that closed their eyes like that, that Miss Barbie with Sleep Eyes is gorgeous and her mechanism is in perfect condition. Now I want one for my collection, I collect also with no rhyme or reason, usually I only collect things that catch my eye. Greetings from Mexico.
Isn't Miss Barbie with Sleep Eyes just mesmerizing? Collecting with "no rhyme or reason" can be the most fun because you end up with a diverse and truly personal collection. Thanks for tuning in all the way from Mexico! 🌟
A number one AND she's wearing Gay Parisienne?! My eyes 😍
So glad you enjoyed seeing this doll!
This is so much fun! I have several # 3s that were given to me by a friend. It's nice to learn a little more about them and the other Barbies.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had the English and Spanish speaking Barbie, I still have one of them, doesn’t talk anymore, but one of my favorites.
I love my No. 3 Brown Hair Barbie. with her Original box, I have Talking Barbie in Box does not talk. I love my Miss Barbie with box , she came from Netherlands when I was at a Barbie Doll Show years ago. Cheers from Calgary, Canada
That is great! We love number three Barbie dolls. Thanks for tuning in!
Amazing Rachel . Thank you! 🥰
Love the education on these vintage gals and the information about the box! Learning about the dolls is sp fun...and motivating! I also love to hunt for thew treasures!
Rachel, I so LOVE your Mom's Barbie Collection:)!! Bradley Justice Yarbrough is wonderful at teaching us so much about Barbie's designers and history:)!! I always thought that the Barbie with the black and white bathing suit was the Number One Barbie, I had no idea that it was the Gay Parsian outfitted Barbie:)!! And The Barbie in the Bubble Dress with the Gay Parsian look is so glamorous:)!! I so LOVE the dress with the rabbit fur and her long white graceful gloves:)!! I was also surprised that her white stole was made of rabbit fur, I thought it was faux fur:)! And it is a shame that Charlotte Johnson never made the pink ballet dress because the graphics on the box made it look so pretty:)!! And I actually LOVE the bright blue eyes on the Miss Barbie or "sleepy eye" Barbie and I really LOVE the pink bathing suit with gold and pink beads on it as well as the gold platform shoes she is wearing:)!! Thank you Rachel for sharing your Mom's glamorous Barbie Collection and thank you Bradley Justice Yarbrough for all the history on Barbie:)!!
Thank you for your wonderful comment!
Congratulations! I´ve learned a lot of things about this doll . Thanks!!!
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
Wow, the Number One Barbie in Gay Parisienne is AMAZING! I noticed that the coloring on Rachel's Mom's Number One still has some nice "color"--- rather than pure white all over. So, Rachel's Mom must have kept that Number One away from sunlight. Good for her. ~~ I own many vintage Barbies (& friends and relatives), I do not have a Number One, but several Number Threes and Number Fours (since they are my favorites). Anyhow, such a nice video. Thank you Rachel, for putting this together for us! (PS- Bradley is great!)
Is there a video of you building the background? That is so awesome! It looks like the first Barbie Dreamhouse!
We did a bunch of the building of it live streaming on Facebook back in the day. I wish I had filmed it for youtube. I was pregnant at the time and VERY tired LOL
Love the boxes, great graphics 😍
Glad you like them! Thanks for tuning in!
I had the doll with the striped bathing suit, I think she had a big hat. I had one favourite Barbie piece of clothing. It was a Red Velvet A-line coat with bell sleeves and white Satin lining. My friends and I would take turns picking dolls then picking clothes. My red coat was always my favourite. I had many dolls and clothes because my aunt got the for me at thrift stores. My friends didn’t have many but maybe I. Needles to say, I loved Fashion Illustration and went on to Fashion Design School. I have American Girl Dolls, WW, ETC. hoping that my grand children and great grandchildren inherit the same interest. My daughter has the gene too. Now I love Tonner’s Dolls and already have 3. 92X16 and 1 X18 inch.) I plan to dress them in high fashion like Demuse. It is your fault that I love Tonner’s now.
I just noticed my favourite coat. It is on the bottom of the box shown in black. Mine was red velvet. I really didn’t like the short curly hair.
Omg you have a number one...dream!! I do have a #3 with blue eye shadow, apparently rarer then the brown.
Fun video...always love to see Bradley.
Love your dress Rachel, Barbie has a similar one from the 80's. 💛
Love that you said Barbie has a similar one because Bradley showed me the picture of her!! So perfect that you said that. Thanks for watching!
Hi Rachel, I’m from the uk 🇬🇧 love your doll store and your antiques I’ve been searching for a long time to get German Armund doll I’m not sure how to spell it correctly ,but the ones on eBay I don’t trust so much ,here in the uk we haven’t really got a lot of collection in the Victorian dolls not that I can see anywhere, I just love your collection if I lived in America I would totally visit your shop,happy Tuesday
I loved you dress !
Actually there’s a Barbie Beverly Hills Fashion that looks just like it .
🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛
Just fantastic collection, charming hosts, and that entire set! I’m DYING of jealousy!!! Lol
Thank you so much!!
I have this exact Talking Barbie that I repaired to talk, same hair color even. She mentions P.J. in her phrases, rather than Stacey, even though Stacey was still one of Barbie's friends in 1970. I often wish that Barbie would mention P.J., Stacey and Christie in her speech. I just love this group of dolls, I went through a phase where I collected quite a few Talkers and repaired several of them to talk. I still have a lot of them that need to be repaired, but I just kind of lost steam.
I would describe Miss Barbie as 'peculiar' looking. :D
I would too...definitely. I remember seeing her in the discount stores in 64 or 65 when she was originally sold. I liked her swing and her packaging, but the doll itself did not attract me. I was about five. The shiny head and the staring eyes were very off-putting. I always, always wondered why Mattel greenlighted that particular doll head. Some of their marketing decisions have baffled me since childhood and I remember wondering, as a little girl, what these grownups at the big doll factory were thinking back then. (I was not a typical child, I was always wanting to know things other kids didn't want to know.) I badly wanted to ask them about Miss Barbie's alien-creature look, and why they produced the sullen face of Fashion Queen (another one I saw in the stores back then, and rejected for her strange unhappy face, even if I thought her wigs looked interesting), and the googly-eyed cartoony Midge head. I had coloring books with Barbie and Midge, and Midge always looked very pretty in them---but then the Midge I saw in the stores looked nothing like her, and reminded me of a Winchell Mahoney ventriloquist's dummy with her odd features. I remember being so puzzled about that!
I held on to my Tammy dolls until Mattel changed its ways. Seriously. I was mad Tammy didn't have new clothes in the stores anymore, and I loved the Barbie fashions, but of course they wouldn't fit Tammy. So that meant...I needed a Barbie. I stood there and considered a Color Magic, but I knew my mother would think I was too young to be using liquid stuff on a doll to change hair colors and that it would be assumed the chemicals would get on the carpet somehow. So I didn't even ask. But she was at least a doll I could imagine owning.
Eventually I got my first Barbie, an American Girl, and some incredibly nice clothes that came out at the same time. But those earlier dolls, no matter how much I wanted a Barbie, were just not acceptable to me. And I didn't relate to the bubblecut or the ponytail dolls---I wanted a Barbie that was somehow different from those rather dated styles. So once American Girl, that dazzing sophisticate, came along, with her cinnamon-haired, long swinging bob and tan skin with coral lips and fingernails, and then those teen pleasure puppies, the TNTs with their mod clothes and crazy earrings, I was so happy. They were everything I had wanted and couldn't put into words in 1965, standing in the store, looking up at the ones that could wear those great clothes that Tammy couldn't, but had these hard faces I couldn't love.
I love the Barbie with the closing eyes! I collect unusual dolls so she would be great! Thank you 💜
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed seeing her!
I have several number 1s that have lost their color. Should I do anything about that? Like repaint?
That’s a matter of personal preference. I have chosen not to do anything to my dolls.
@@RachelHoffmanDolls will it lessen the value if I do or make them not competition worthy?
@@CissyPantsCrafts I don’t know the answer to that. I just don’t like to alter with mine, and I have no experience in Barbie competition rules. I have never attended Barbie convention but hope to in the future. Thanks for watching!
@@RachelHoffmanDolls Thanks Rachel. There is a competition at UFDC convention this year I was just wondering because of that. I’ve never been to a Barbie doll convention either. I sort of wanted to do it that year that it was the week before UFDC in the same space but wasn’t able to do it.
Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions. For now, like you, I think I’ll just leave them alone and not do anything to them. I don’t really mind them being so pale.
Under no circumstances should you paint your dolls, in my opinion. If the dolls are cosmetically unappealing to you, you might consider selling them and buying dolls that are more attractive. But if you care about the dolls' value at all, you should definitely not alter them in a permanent way, as painting would.
I have done extensive retouching on vintage dolls, and it's a very fiddly process. The pale skintone of the early dolls is a defining feature of the #1, #2 and #3 dolls, so you really don't want to try to alter that. Technically, this is a materials defect, as is the greasy face of the 1961 dolls and the 'melt' of the Miss Barbie head when the wigs are left on the doll for too long. Clearly the pale skintone issue was recognized pretty soon after production, as the #4 Barbie doll has a bright peachy skintone that is colorfast. To me, the #4 is the quintessential early Barbie doll, so if you really want that catalog-page look, you should collect #4 dolls. And #4 dolls are quite a bit less expensive to collect than the earlier three versions.
What year was the sleep eye Barbie? I've never seen one -
This doll was the cover doll of the 1964 retailer catalog. She was supposed to be a big deal.
I want to hang out with you guys🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you for watching!
Sono in possesso di Barbie intage originali mattel, sono in "vendita" dal 1960 al 1965 sono a disposizione per un offerta. grazie
I would like to register for summer fling
It was last summer, darn it! Thanks for watching!
🎀❤
I am interested in the lifesize barbies
I like those, too!
😍🧡🎈🎈🎈🎈
I have a Barbie collection want to sell it all! Interested? I had a brunette #1 Barbie I just sold on eBay and a blonde
I am always looking to buy number 1 or number 2 Barbies.
i very much enjoy Bradley, but these interviews make me feel uncomfortable for some reason.
i don't understand it. Are Rachel and Bradley frenemies or something??
i keep picking up a vibe.
Lol, no we’re not frenemies 😂 We deeply love each other and we’re fantastic friends. We love to joke a lot!