Doll Junk: Collectible and Crazy Fashions from the '70s and '80s, by Carmen Varricchio
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“Eeeewww. Fake Barbie® 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 wore them, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s (’80s collectors, rejoice! Your time has come!), many in their original packaging. Prepare to shield your eyes from clumsily drawn fashion figures, pathetic attempts at high-fashion lingo, and mediocre package graphics culled from around the world!
Doll Junk: Collectible and Crazy Fashions from the '70s and '80s, by Carmen Varricchio- Amazon Sales Rank: #706594 in Books
- Brand: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
- Published on: 2015-06-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.02" h x .39" w x 8.71" l, 2.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
About the Author 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, sad to say, 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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. For anyone who grew up with Barbie. By Cynthia Corral As a woman in her late 40s, I was immersed in the Barbie world throughout the 1970s and even into the 1980s. I had only a few and I treated them with utmost care. As well the few “real” Barbie clothes I had. Those real clothes were so treasured and rare that when I turned 14 and started pulling in a bigger allowance, I chose to go to Best Products and purchase some gorgeous new dresses. I no longer “played” with the Barbies, but I sure did dress them up.I also had a treasure chest of clothes that my mom sewed for Barbie. Maybe it was just the decade of the 70s, but my mom sewed some awesome clothes. These held just as high a place in Barbie’s life as the Mattel clothes.But then there were the “other” clothes. The off-brand, the no-brand, the flea market, and the junk my friends’ less talented mothers made. These clothes had their own specific purpose though: they’re the Barbie outfits I let my little sister borrow. The clothes Barbie was allowed to wear when she was a jungle guide through the muddy dammed up gutters of my street. The clothes she wore when Barbie was playing “the mother” LOL. The clothes she wore when she was Cinderella, or a “poor” woman, or the maid.So they weren’t really junk, they had specific purposes, and I needed those off brand clothes to complete the stories my Barbies were telling. And so this book was an AMAZING look back at my childhood. So many of the outfits in this book look so very familiar, it was a really special trip down memory lane. Just as fascinating are all the different off-brand Barbies that we all had, and they included every single doll I can remember and many more. From Dawn to the Sunshine Family, to dolls and clothes from all over the world, they are all included here.It’s the most complete book I can imagine. There are no Mattel Barbies in this book, so it is not a history of Barbie in any way. But it IS a history of my childhood. It is incredibly complete. If you grew up with Barbie, or if your mother or grandmother did, this would be a very special gift. I’m sure any Barbie lover would also love this, as it’s almost impossible to collect Barbie as a child without also collecting the “junk”. Well done!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great Collection - Just Missing The Details By Talvi Carmen Varricchio has created a great collection of 'off brand' 1970s and 1980s doll 'treasures'. The book covers several doll sizes - from the Sunshine Family to Barbie to Crissy knockoffs - and the outfits made for them. Really, this is more about the outfits than the dolls and collecting them in their original packaging glory. If the book stumbles a bit, it's that the collection isn't organized well, the graphic design simple and often cluttered, nor are we given much on the history/provenance/details of the various items. It translates to great eye candy (and there are some really great doll clothes in there!) but perhaps missing some depth.The book breaks down as follows: short introduction (would have liked more!), smaller size dolls, Barbie-sized, and then larger sized.The book is nearly fully composed of images (and there are many, yay!) - almost all being clothing in original packaging (and occasionally some of the dolls). Since nearly all 'junk' clothes are intended as cheap knockoffs, quite a few of the collections shown are international items - mostly European. There are a few US-based lines, mostly created for mail order catalogs by chains such as Montgomery Wards or JC Penneys. But the details on the items (original prices, current prices, scarcity, background, history, success of the line, etc.) was missing - occasionally there would be a comment or detail but not enough. Other great items, such as doll playsets of the same junk type, would have been another welcome addition (e.g., the 1970s Sears Airline Reservation play set for Barbie-sized dolls).As well, I would have liked to learn more about how the author got into collecting these - what he found most difficult, what he loved the most, his own doll collecting history, even his image. The book really would have benefited from more time put into organization, display, and especially detail/history.When looking at the fashions, one would think they'd be so cheap as to be bland and uninteresting - but there was so much diversity that even a non-doll-collecting historical fashion enthusiast would delight. From the fabrics to the ensembles, many of the clothes looked straight from fashion plates of the eras - items not worn in real life but great fun because of it! 1970s layered dresses in bright floral patterns to 1980s Jem and the Rockers type outfits taken to the 9th degree. There really is a lot to love here.After seeing package of package, I began to realize something about the book. I think for a collector, being able to get NIB or MIP (New In Box or Mint in Package)are the holy grails and pride. But for those viewing the collection like myself, I kept wishing to see the clothes ON the dolls. Or dolls out of the restrictive package to see how they were actually played with or displayed. It made for a somewhat sterile presentation and it was difficult to imagine the clothes put together and on the doll (sort of like seeing a page of an exploded diagram of a machine and then trying to figure out what it looked liked in real life). There are so many great doll photographers out there and I would have loved to see a collaboration where the author took the clothes he had out of boxes/packages and put them on dioramas or sets. I never got a feel for the clothes or the dolls because of the packaged restriction.So, although it was a great collection and the photographs were excellent, the lack of more detail (there is some but not enough), the haphazard organization (e.g., the barbie-sized section would jump back and forth between continents, years, etc. and it got confusing), and the lack of opened dolls/displays was a disappointment. I wanted more than just a loose cataloging of Varricchio's collection. All the same, it's well worth the time for vintage doll collectors just to drool over the great 1970s and 1980s fashions. I would love to see a next edition that makes the most of the fun playfulness of the eras (displays, dioramas, playsets,) as well as more information, better organization, and much more definition. Reviewed from an advance readers copy provided by the publisher.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Look into History and Pop Culture Through Dolls By Shann Reviews I may be one of the only non-doll collectors to review this book, and I still loved it for the fun and knowledge I am getting out of it.Part of my reason for wanting to read this book was to see some vintage fashions translated to pop culture and doll clothing, but I also wanted more insight into the doll-collecting world. I was given the opportunity to get a free review copy of Doll Junk, I jumped on it right away.There is not much information given with each photo, but let's be honest- a lot of collectors are only buying this for the pictures, anyway. It's enough information for me. It also gives me a jumping-off point if I wanted to do my own research, since it's just a Google search away. If Carmen Varricchio did not compile this collection for me, I would not even know where to start with my own research.I was surprised to see just how much history of popular culture you can see through these dolls.I can imagine this being a ton of fun for any doll collector, or for people like me who are interested to see how culture can reflect through the toys we give to our kids. Even though I got my digital review copy for free, I can see myself loving to own a physical copy of this, and I may buy it in the future.
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