I noticed the other day that there’s a ‘Barbie in a wheelchair’, that’s good inclusive I thought then wondered how she has kept her figure, as I’m finding hard enough with just not moving around as I used to!
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That is the beauty.of.kids imagination, you see, I would.never.have wanted my Tressy in a wheelchair or a wedding dress! Which my mother bought, I did like the water skiis though! I spent hours with my friends daughter and her Barbies, don’t understand the need for more than one! When you can buy the.clothes! I thought Tressy would feel betrayed!!
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Given that Barbie’s figure is technically incompatible with human form anyway, I don’t think she needs to worry about the effects upon it of living in a chair. 
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I have to admit to.still having Tressy! First thing I look for when we move, never mind the kettle! Hubby did suggest doll hospital to get her loose leg fixed and her growing hair put back, I do still.have it! But they are memories to me, she looks her age!
and more lol
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I did know this, I jest, on the other hand it gives little girls the idea that they have to conform to a shape. I didn’t want to buy one for my daughter but she was given 2, one being an American Barbie I think it was LA. The other from an old fashioned relative! We preferred Sindy
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I think a lot of us, me included, were given a Sindy because at least she wasn’t a Barbie!
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Did anyone else have a ‘Tiny Tears’? My parents didn’t like her either, but my persistence won the day in the end.
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lol. My mother wouldn’t let me have a Barbie, but she got me a Dawn doll instead. (Did you have them over there? They were basically mini versions of Barbie.)
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Hi, I had a tiny tears, loved that doll, LOL, I also had an avengers doll, anyone remember those, didn’t have a barbie.
Jean
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Not Tiny Tears but remember being horrified by a stiff baby doll and pushchair! I did get what I wanted a Tressy set, a business outfit and for some reason a dalmation, maybe the year of 101 dalmations!my mother has said she couldn’t just get me a dolls dess…I said you could have, I was terrified by that baby doll! 
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I had a Belinda doll, she had beautiful grey/pink hair that you could style, I used to spend hours styling it. I gave it to my daughter when she was 3, big mistake, she bit one of the feet, leaving a big hole, so she went the way of the ‘dolly on the dustcart’. (Pam Ayres poem).
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Not my daughter lol, she is 40 this year and only buys non plastic toys for her daughter, or second hand, as she’s a serious ecologist.
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