August 25, 2009 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley
Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt: A Shift in the Barbie Paradigm
No one growing up during the upbeat, Mattel-directed Sixties figures they’ll be worse off in middle age, forced to scrounge harder for work, buy less, live smaller.
Those Barbie songs my sister and I sang along to in our pink and green room constituted teenage visions of a supercalifragelistic future that we owned, co-starring Dick Van Dyke, four kids, a shiny Lincoln and full-service yacht.
“Here’s a cake, that you and I can make, I’ll share the recipe, if you say yes to me.”
But due to the recession and soaring costs …
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