A new trailer for the Barbie movie shows her visiting the real world. In reality, the doll was based on a German sex toy called Lilli.
The character grew so popular in Germany that Lilli developed into a sort of three-dimensional pinup. One of the writers of Barbie’s first commercials told Lord for her book that men would hang the doll off the rearview mirror in their cars, or take it to bars, lifting up her skirt or pulling down her pants in their idea of humor.
The very first Lilli comic has the young woman asking a fortune teller for the address of a “tall, beautiful and rich man,”In another, mentioned by Lord, Lilli appears in a female friend’s apartment concealing her naked body with a newspaper. The caption: “We had a fight and he took back all the presents he gave me.”She and her daughter Barbara returned to California in 1956 with Lilli dolls in tow.
That’s what so transfixed Handler at the store window in Switzerland. “I didn’t then know who Lilli was,” she told Lord. “I only saw an adult-shape body that I had been trying to describe for years.” Over the next few years, Handler and others designers at Mattel relaxed the doll’s lips, softened her eyebrows, upgraded her plastic and whitened her skin. At one point the nipples and breasts of an early prototype were daintily filed off. A delicate, detailed couture wardrobe was created.The real transformation, however, was in the doll’s personality.
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