Mattel's Barbie has been around ... over the world. In the 1950s, Ruth Handler, part-owner of a toy company called Mattel, noticed her daughter preferred to play with adult paper dolls instead ...

Barbie was created by Ruth Handler of Mattel who was the principal architect of the doll's campaign. Handler was inspired by watching her daughter play with paper ... that's around 164 Barbies ...

The dresses, as well as the handmade dolls, follow patterns provided by Dress a Girl Around the World. “I love to sew, so making the dresses is right up my alley,” says Linda Tressler of ...

Rather, her memories are of playing with paper dolls, an experience many of you recall from back in the day. What might some friends and associates asked when they learned that today’s topic was ...