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Doll Junk: Collectible and Crazy Fashions from the ´70s and ´80s
Carmen Varricchio
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Description for Doll Junk: Collectible and Crazy Fashions from the ´70s and ´80s
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 855 colour illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; WCW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 297 x 17. Weight in Grams: 926.
Eeeewww. Fake Barbie (R) clothes. Those four words verbalize the faint disgust yesterday's savvy kids felt when, in the midst of doll play, an inferior, generic, or clone dress or top suddenly surfaced from their sizable supplies of perfect Mattel doll outfits. The impostors were treated as tainted outcasts and were basically left to rot. Today, a younger generation of doll lovers is on the rise. These leap-for-cheap fashionistas gleefully embrace the very items their quality-conscious predecessors detested. Here, for your viewing pleasure or revulsion, are nearly 800 not-exactly-gorgeous getups and some of the downgraded dolls who ... Read more
Eeeewww. Fake Barbie (R) clothes. Those four words verbalize the faint disgust yesterday's savvy kids felt when, in the midst of doll play, an inferior, generic, or clone dress or top suddenly surfaced from their sizable supplies of perfect Mattel doll outfits. The impostors were treated as tainted outcasts and were basically left to rot. Today, a younger generation of doll lovers is on the rise. These leap-for-cheap fashionistas gleefully embrace the very items their quality-conscious predecessors detested. Here, for your viewing pleasure or revulsion, are nearly 800 not-exactly-gorgeous getups and some of the downgraded dolls who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
925g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764348129
SKU
V9780764348129
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About Carmen Varricchio
Carmen Varricchio had the good fortune to begin his career in the New York fashion industry sketching for some of the world's best designers. He has sadly been amassing dolls and doll clothes for more than 25 years, and has no logical explanation for what one fellow enthusiast has rightly called the absurdity of doll collecting.
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