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Barbie in Retro Sheen: Barbie's most famous outfits from 1959 through the 1970s are being re-created for collectors today.

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This Month's Features
  • Enchanted Afternoon
    By Marianne Clay
    A visit with artist Maggie Iacono.
  • How Fashion Dolls Began
    By Linda Edward
    The French Poupée.
  • French Fashion Paper Doll
    By Karen Reilly
    Karen Reilly presents her French fashion paper doll.
  • Chasing Fashion Dolls
    Robert Tonner's Chase Modeling Agency offers ways to build mini-collections within a collection and a preview of fall.
  • Happy Birthday Bleuette
    By Susie Baker
    "La Petite Fille Francais" turns 100.
  • Birthday Party Dress for Bleuette
    By Marsha Olson
    Perfect Patterns offers a party dress for Bleuette to wear at her centennial parties.
  • A Potato, Cloth, and Sand: Käthe Kruse Dolls
    By Jean Stevens
    Not many people would see the makings of a doll in a potato, sand, and cloth, but not many see the world the way the late Käthe Kruse did.
  • "Space … the Final Frontier"
    By Sue Byrd
    Photos by George Byrd
    The release of the final "Star Wars" movie and the end of "Star Trek's" long run on TV is spurring new interest in dolls made in the images of these sci-fi characters.

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