{"id":129581,"date":"2016-01-30T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/its-not-the-barbies-that-cost-you-its-the-accessories.html"},"modified":"2016-02-01T06:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:33:49","slug":"its-not-the-barbies-that-cost-you-its-the-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/its-not-the-barbies-that-cost-you-its-the-accessories.html","title":{"rendered":"It's not the Barbies that cost you, it's the accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"

And that's probably the only down side I can think of to Mattel's announcement that, in addition to "standard" Barbie dolls, we'll also be getting petite, tall, and curvy Barbies. This is on top of previously opening the doll up to additional skin tone and hair color.<\/p>\n

+<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> was never a Barbie fan, so we never really got into it in our household. But in general, I think diversity in this area is a fine idea, and that includes body shapes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBarbie getting a makeover with three new body types<\/a><\/span>
\nMattel will begin selling Barbie with three new bodies — curvy, tall, and petite. The doll also will be available in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And that's probably the only down side I can think of to Mattel's announcement that, in addition to "standard" Barbie dolls, we'll also be getting petite, tall, and curvy Barbies. This is on top of previously opening the doll up to additional skin tone and hair color. +Kay Hill was never a Barbie fan, so … Continue reading “It's not the Barbies that cost you, it's the accessories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/its-not-the-barbies-that-cost-you-its-the-accessories-coffee-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":129581,"position":0},"title":"It's Not the Barbies that Cost You, It's the Accessories (Coffee Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Oct-14 1:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Good luck to Club Coffee on this quest, as similar suits against printer manufacturers (including those who have put proprietary tech in their print cartridges to prevent third party cartridges from working) have been pretty fruitless. 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