don't they paint demure panties on the underlying plastic?
Hah! FINALLY something I know more about that you! Doll undies. Well, it's a start.
My daughter, now 10, was big on Barbies. She wanted the doll. A new one. All the time. She did not want to dress the doll up, she wanted the doll to be dressed. So, each doll was a new doll. She ended up with literally dozens of Barbies. Yeah, I had to change Barbie's clothes. Lemme tell ya, it is (or was for me) odd, mentally. I would first think, "Geez, I'm undressing a doll with titties. I'm a grown man." Then I would think, "Hey, it's OK, I'm not getting... stimulated... or anything, that's a good thing. I'm OK."
Then I would think, "If somebody rings the doorbell, I am going to look like a freak."
Then, "Well, screw it, I'm playing with my daughter, so who cares what they think."
Like that.
Later, I remembered why I was going through this. In college, I was goofing off in the "video" room one day (this was back in the Dark Ages of video, half inch tape, B&W, crude editing, it was a "new" thing at art school) and this freshman kid, nice kid, brought in a box full of stuff and said he was in trouble, he had to make a video in 3 hours for an assignment. Kinda like doing your term paper the day before kinda thing.
So I said, "Cool, let's do something, I'll help you!"
In the box was Ken and Barbie. At the time, I was working at night as a projectionist at a porn theater (sheer unadulterated torture, but that is another story) so I quickly scripted a doll porn video. It was really "artsy". The overall idea was to spoof the whole concept of porn with dolls, while using the medium in a classy way, so the piece was well done, but really goofy because of Ken and Barbie.
I also was good friends with the Professor of Video, and knew it would crack her up and get the kid a good grade, which it did, (and the kid was standing there while we were doing this, saying stuff like "I can't believe you thought of this, this is brilliant, yap yap")
So anyway, that was the reason I was feeling uncomfortable years later fooling with Barbie. And no Ken around either. Heh, heh.
One good thing, if you save the Barbies, they are worth money 30 years later. My wife at the time had hers from when she was little,still in the original case, with the original clothes. I checked, and it is now worth about $700.00.
My only question is "Who is buying?" |
