Remember the times when mum would sit behind the sewing machine and stitch a frock for your doll. (There really was a time like that). You would stand beside the whirring machine and watch over it ...

Children’s toy fads come and go, but Barbie never seems to show her age. The famous doll with the famously unrealistic figure has seen every fashion from bellbottoms to hot pants to leg warmers since ...

When Sandy Taylor was a girl, her whole family made doll clothes: her sister, her mother, even her father, who worked shifts at a factory. The Taylor sisters had Barbies, and those Barbies had dozens ...

Which Barbie doll clothes are best? Since Barbie arrived on the scene in the ’50s, she has had more than 200 careers, as a fashion model, astronaut, ballerina, scientist, lifeguard, firefighter and ...

Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls and trucks,” ...