The other day Russ and I were walking in Wal Mart and I saw a display of Holiday Barbie Dolls, and they all looked so lovely in their beautiful white dresses, fancy earrings and long curls, that it made me wonder why Barbie is always so thin and attractive. (Unnaturally thin and attractive, if you ask me…) It made me ask the question: why doesn’t somebody make dolls that are fat and ugly? And then I suddenly realized that somebody DID make dolls that are fat and ugly. They’re called Whimsies, and you can see how long that lasted. Two whole years, 1960 and 1961.
Now of course I’m being facetious. Though Whimsies are nowhere near as attractive as Barbie, they are by no means ugly. And they’re not fat, either—they’re just sort of shapeless, and I must admit, they have big butts. Most normal little girls play with Barbies, but I was one of the weirdos that liked trolls and Whimsies. And I still do.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
