My Vintage MOD Barbie Dolls - Collection Tour Part 1

[@fashiondolldreamer]

Julia looks smashing in that blue suit .... Looks like a Mattel Julia giftset outfit! And great seeing your Japan Living (you know that I love those!) BTW I'm sure I have told you about 'Longs' (or 'Longs Drugs' as it is known.) I used to visit the ones in Hawaii all the time as there was one just down the road from where I would stay... they're kinda like a big chemist/supermarket and the ones in Hawaii looked so 60's, (they most likely WERE unchanged since the 60s!) which is why I loved visiting them! I used to get my bags of flavoured Kona coffee there. LOL

[@patrickdolan2137]

Hi! Excellent work on Christie's outfit! You've got quite some talent! Now, for those older Barbie dolls whose faces turn pale yellow, you can use chalk pastels to bring back the original pigment, some baby pink mixed with a darker raspberry pink applied dry with a fine eyeshadow brush does wonders! I've seen it work!!! You will dust off any excess with a clean brush & voila! You can remove the color with some rubbing alcohol, otherwise it remains even if she gets wet!!! Good luck!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@ThatGuyGabeToo]

Pretty collection, small but curated all of my Barbies have been thrifted but I still have several mod ones, I think face wise it's the prettiest Barbie has ever been...

[@fashiondolldreamer]

OK I have to steal all your Standards... or at least one!!! LOL (Or it could be a great birthday present? Hint, Hint! 😜) Yes, I know I already have one (already thanks to you!) but now I need one in the box with her OG swimsuit. Like we've discussed, I saw all those Barbies in white shoeboxes from the Mattel headquarters back then. Now the only ones I remember were the TNTs in their mesh bathing suits (as they intrigued me back then!!!) but as you showed in those German catalogs, it could have been quite possible that they were also in the earlier vintage red helenca swimsuits as Mattel Australia were notorious for using up whatever was on hand and mixing things up, hence all those interesting 'X-files' dolls we have. Did she say whether it was a white shoebox? Your mum's was possibly one of those ones from the Mattel headquarters over here as I remember never seeing those white shoeboxes with 'Barbie' stamped on them sold in any store, but every time my Mum's factory had Barbies (as it was nearby the Mattel headquarters, so employees' kids got their toys for Christmas) they were packaged differently and where in those nondescript boxes. For me, the Mod era definitely is 1967-71/72, the Japan/Mexico/early HK era ... but yes, Malibu is definitely not part of that.

[@PeckhamBear]

Love the suit on Julia and the tailoring of it! It's interesting hearing what appeals to other collectors...for me, the Standards leave me a little cold and I don't have any yet. I see the Mod era as being 1967 to 1972. The Mod aesthetic petered out in '69, to my eyes, but I extend to '72 due to the continued use of the TnT mold, most dolls still came with rooted eyelashes and Mattel was still using the black and white tags.

[@PandoraBoxPanda]

Hi Dean, I think I have 2 mod dolls I had them from years and never new they had stings on the back of there heads as there hair covered it , talking Barbies and I just got talking Ken.

[@Vanessa-nh5es]

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[@omarrodriguez-xu2wl]

Amazing dolls! You made a great job with the blue brocade fabric.💜

[@DeanReen]

Thank you ❤️ I didn't like the outfit at first but when I put it on Christie I loved it. I had to make it a certain way as there wasn't a whole lot of fabric even using two dresses.

[@RussellKohlmann]

Love that suit you made! So gorgeous. And the way you restored that standard is so lovely. She's precious. I also loved that you said your collection is sort of a tribute to your mom. I get that!

[@DeanReen]

Thank you so much 💖 She is precious isn't she? I love dolls with a history. I probably don't realise just how much of a tribute the collection is to my mum 😂

[@joys0toys]

Your dolls are so beautiful. I think my favorite is the one in the pink swimsuit. But my have fashion is the blue dress you made. It is so pretty 😍

[@DeanReen]

Thank you so much ❤️😊 I wish I could make that one for sale but it would be too expensive, but it seems to be popular.

[@soniagruhler4623]

Thanks for the vid Dean! As a relative newbie to MOD Barbie collecting the information you gave was super interesting! 😊

[@DeanReen]

Thank you 💖 Glad you found it helpful. I just wish is that I could know what I'd love before buying it 😂

[@markofashion1790]

Love it. My favorite Mod SL Barbie with pink skin. Also, not many people know Barbie's foot can band from flat to heel. I own 3 living Barbies, each different hair color. Interning JE doll with a beautiful dress.

[@DeanReen]

Hiya Mark! How's it going? 💖 Do you like the pink skin AGs? I did see someone posting about not knowing about the feet on FaceBook. It in the commercial though 🤷🏼‍♂️😂 If I had money and space I would get on in each colour too! They are such a great doll.

[@Siansonea]

For me, the Mod era is 1966 Francie, 1967-1970 Barbie, with some strays in the years that followed. Mod was the mid-to-late 60s fashion influence from the UK, but I feel like the dolls and fashions from 1970 onward started becoming more "All American". Living Barbie with all her posing and all her sporty activity fashions doesn't really feel all that Mod to me, even though there were still influences as far as color scheme and the like, and certainly fashions like "Maxi 'N Mini" were still completely Mod. 1971 to me is the beginning of a new era, and I call it the Malibu era. Malibu Barbie was THE doll of the period, so much so that she was redressed as Olympic dolls as well as Newport Barbie and Sun Valley Barbie. 1971's non-Malibu dolls, like the Live Action dolls, were very American, very youth culture, very back-to-nature, a far cry from Swinging London styles. The preponderance of bell bottom pants, plaid, etc. makes it feel drastically different to me. Even the Victorian-inspired look of Barbie With Growin' Pretty Hair feels less Mod and more 70s to me, even though it does feel more like a throwback to a previous style code. I believe Charlotte Johnson and Carol Spencer disagreed about the design direction for that doll, which is why the 1972 iteration of GPH is much more in keeping with the 70s fashion trends. For me the Malibu era bleeds into 1977 a bit, but that is the start of the SuperStar era, and even though there's still a bit of granola Malibu stuff in the line, that would taper off quite a bit from that point on. So I put the Malibu era as 1971-1976. There are always odd outliers like GPH and Ballerina Barbie in every era that don't quite fit, but we're just talking broad trends here.

[@viviennecreamsicle1061]

I just loveee pink skin standard Barbie dolls.. makes me wish there were pink skin versions of swirl or number 7 Ponytails just to see how it looks

[@DeanReen]

Thanks! 💖 Me too. I would love to see that as well! I do have some vintage clones that are pink skin but they look a little different and I don't think they made her in a swirl 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@AJH2719]

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