SO IN STYLE BARBIES ARE SO PERFECT FOR BARBIE COLLECTORS
-Pictured-Kara and Kianna
Mattel Inc. has launched a new line of Barbies featuring African-American dolls of color. Will you be buying?
What: So In Style(S.I.S) Barbies
Description: So In Style barbies are a collection of African-American dolls created by designer Stacey McBride-Irby. The dolls are named Grace™, who was friends with Barbie® in Malibu before moving away to Chicago; Trichelle™ and Kara™, best friends to Grace; Courtney®, Janessa™, and Kianna®, mentees of Grace,Trichelle, and Kara.
“I want them to be examples to real girls,” says McBride-Irby, “but I wanted to make sure they had an aspirational theme also, that moms will hone in on.” Each pair comes with accessories that reflect their interests – math and music, drill team and science, art and journalism.”
Product Highlight(s): Innovative
Price:$19.99-24.99
Where to Buy: BarbieCollector.com
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Photo:Dolls of color
35 Comments to “SO IN STYLE BARBIES ARE SO PERFECT FOR BARBIE COLLECTORS”
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I cant wait to buy this for my goddaughter. It’s about time they have dolls of color.
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I wish the hair was curly.
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It looks like some of the dolls have a ‘bushy’ effect to their hair.
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I want need bushy. I want CURLY…dare I say nappy! My daughter’s hair will be nappy, without a doubt and I’ve worked with girls who told me they wish they had white Barbie’s hair. How different are these from those? This reminds me of “A Girl Like Me”:[link removed]
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I’ll be buying for my nieces.
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Cute dolls, but WHY do they have to have such GHETTO-FABULOUS names?..lol
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lol hey its better that Jennifers and Ashleys!I like da names!
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Duh. That’s what a LOT of black people name their kids! My family is one of the rare black families I know that doesn’t add “iana” or “chelle” or “ika” to the end of our kids’ names! Those names are just reflective of reality.
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How sad! I’m a cliche? I’m an “iana”. My name is actually a brand of bread in Italy and also happens to be somewhat common in Italy and parts of Latin America. I get what you’re saying…but I did look up some African names before, and many actually do end in an “ica” or “icka” sound.
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a blue eyed barbie doll that they just mixed in a little brown coloring to the plastic mixture. nice.
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This dolls look just like the dolls I had when I was little. But the lilttle one’s name was Kelly
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it’s cut
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this is nice. black barbie’s are nothing new tho. i had them as a lil girl and i’ve bought them for my daughter also. when i was younger, the black barbie’s name was christie. there was also a black version of ken, skipper, and kelly.
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Black barbies are not new. I had some when I was a little girl but my daughter is not into barbie.
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yes i would love to buy these dolls for my baby cousin!!! i remember when the only black doll back in the day was Shiny! lol
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Look at the face of the one with the chair. That is not a carbon copy of a Barbie I’ve purchase for my daughter.
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its true, they’ve definately got different features…. they’ve done more than jus mix in a lil colour, i don’t buy my daughter barbie anyway but i think they look ok, i would of liked these as a child
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uhmm black barbies arent new..they even had the light skinned barbies on which i always got…so whats so not new about this?
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Maybe they’ll promote the dolls in time for the holidays. They should get free advertisement from BET considering what they do to the image of black people, the least they can do is promote somethimg positive. I know Debra Lee wouldn’t want that though.
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I had a STEVE DOLL (black ken) and a CHRISTIE DOLL (black barbie) and little KELLY.. So this really isn’t nothing new, but hey I guesse more diversity in the barbie world and more money for Matel LoL..
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I think the first pic could be Halle and her Nahla
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I will not buy a “black Barbie” until they make one with brown eyes. They need to stop it with the blue, green and grey eyes. I know we come in many colors and some people of color have light eyes, but most of us have brown eyes. I know they have brown in their paint box.
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I like the barbie they have design the doll for fashion of today.I like the way they look.Things have changed if people would stop naming their children ghetto names then would stop naming the doll ghetto names.i would buy one of these dolls.They are only designing the doll off of what people trends are today.I think they are nice looking doll.All the black dolls i had growing up liked black with white names and white looks I like that they have thought about blacks like that we are beautiful people.When i look around a lot of women are wearing their hair natural i think the doll looks good.
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Not keen on black barbies coz they r still skinny!I’ll stick to the true african doll called Palesa!
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I had black, white and asian barbies when I was a child, this isn’t news!
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I like these dolls, especially the Kara and Kianna dolls because it just looks like a black mother and her mixed child, which is cool.
The Trichelle and Janessa dolls are cool, too, because the older doll has textured nice hair and the little girl appears to have had her hair straightened with a hot comb!:D It reminds me of my hair when I was little, so all in all, pretty realistic–as dolls go, anyway!
Most of them have brown eyes, too, but it’s good for some of them to have blue or green eyes, since that’s only reality and it shows the diversity in our race.
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Your comments are really good, but “diversity in our race” is really off. “Black” in the US is really mixed race. So the diversity that you’re referring too is actually racial mixture. Mainly, White mixed with Black, and then that offspring mixed with Black (because White people wanted to stay “pure”), and so on. So maybe there is a “Black” culture in the US, but there is no true Black race here…But again, your comments were really great to read.
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It’s not off to say “diversity in our race”, because when I say that I’m referring to the diversity in the “African-American” race, which includes white, Hispanic, Native American, or any other race we may have in our genes down the line. We are a mixed race in a sense, already, but it’s not as obvious in most of us.
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yeah, agree…not much that is new here. They have been making black Barbie since the 80s. I do like the textured hair on the doll “Trichelle”. Her hair does not have the weave or relaxed look that they have always put on the black dolls. That’s cool. I like the black mom and biracial daughter, cute.
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I also like the fact that the Kara and Kianna dolls come with a violin so they are trying to show that they can be cultured and versatile.
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Too fun Ive collected Barbies for a while now!
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I’m looking at all the photos above and I’m seeing mostly brown eyes, brown hair and brown skin. They’re very pretty dolls. I know that i’ve seen black girls walking down the street that look very similar to what I see here.
So what more do you want?? I don’t see my exact look represented here either..(I’m more BRATZ). But I understand that it has to start somewhere..
I think it’s insulting to say that there are only skinny dolls, etc..Well there are slim brown skin girls – So what are you saying to them?? If you are overweight & you see a doll somewhere that represents you, buy it. These dolls are obviously not for you.
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how come they have aspirations that are so typical? Beauticians, young mothers, etc.
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Why do they have these little girls with them? Those are the so-called “mentees”?
Yeah right! These are really “Teenaged Baby Mama Barbies” SMH
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BLACK FOLK’S HAVE VARIOUS FEATURES. THEY JUST DO NOT HAVE BIG NOSES, FULL LIPS AND WIDE EYES AND NOT TO EVADE DARK HUE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE BLESSED TO HAVE MANY DIFFRENT TYPE OF FEATURES, THEREFORE, BARBIE CAN LOOK AS SHE IS BEING PRESENTED, DARK AND LOVELY. I LOVE HOW SHE IS MADE BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN MANY BLACKS WHO LOOK JUST LIKE HER, BEAUTIFUL. LUV U.
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