They did, and if the facts are spam we need more spam.
You realize that this thread is 9 years old and most of the original participants are gone, right?
somebody is still there
When does Zombie Barbie made her debut?
That would make a great movie.
Attack of the 50 Foot Zombie Barbies
And thus was born Toy Story 4.
Given that the guy who bumped this thread has been responding to posts since his bump, and that he’s not selling anything, I think it’s hardly fair to call him a spammer. He’s just discovered a piece of misinformation, and is perhaps a mite too enthusiastic in refuting it. But that’s hardly something worthy of great scorn, on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance.
Amen to that.
When Chip Foose (of Overhaulin’ fame) did a life-sized version of Hot Wheels’ Deora II, one of the things mentioned on the show is that details had to be exagerated on the toy to be seen and they would look odd if scaled simply by mathematics.
That, and the clothing-thickness problem are the real non-exploitative non-female-degrading reasons for the exagerated curves.
This hijack is over.
For comparison, check out the proportions on Michelangelo’s David some time. I’m sure nobody would ever accuse Michelangelo of not knowing the proper proportions of the human body, nor was he showing any sort of disrespect to David. But the proportions are all absurdly distorted, because they need to be for the statue to not look distorted.
One thing I’ve noticed in my eternal and ongoing research of the female form is that it is very rare where, if the woman was standing against a vertical wall that the breasts would be the first contact point no matter what the cup size.
I will admit that is not always the case but it is true on a generalized basis or the result of a very uplifting bra. Barbie is a freak.
Now, I have to get back to my research.
Classic Barbies plastic breasts are much bigger, and waist thinner than those in the more modern doll. This thread is from 2002 and the re-vamped Barbie doll that slimG cites wasn’t introduced until 2002. The classic Barbie’s measurements are what this thread, and almost all other cites he is “correcting” refer to.
Correcting that “misinformation” using an entirely different, updated doll isn’t really correcting much of anything.
One of my sons had measuring Barbie as a math (or maybe algebra) exercise. A variety of Barbies were brought in, and their sizes did fluctuate. I don’t remember what they came up with, although I believe they were making her 5’6" and it was something like 38/17/33–so, an unrealistically small waist.
But the main reason Barbie’s measurements are unattainable for real life women is that a normal person’s head size is 1/7 of body size, or in other words, they are 7 heads tall. There is some variation.
Barbie’s head is unnaturally small. She is approximately 9.5 heads tall, instead of 7.5 (or anyway, that’s what it looked like based on a drawing. The photos on the Internet seem to be about 7.5 heads). I believe I read somewhere that she is supposed to look more like a fashion drawing which, for awhile, were really elongated compared to actual women.
Also, Barbie had a short torso/long legs.
By comparison I had a Miss Nancy Ann fashion doll whose head was enormous compared to her body. However, she had pierced ears and feet that could bend for high heels (or toe shoes–she came with a ballet outfit) or bend down for flats. Her head was at least as wide as her shoulders–she looked more unrealistic than the Barbie.
@RPMcMurphy, what would the contact point be? Nose?
I always envisioned Barbie as an example of a leggy blonde bombshell, along the lines of a classic Price is Right (U.S. T.V show) model.
wait. you saw that? :smack:
This may not apply to your data, but to convert bra size from centimeters to inches it is not sufficient to divide by 2.54. The measuring tape is placed in different places on a woman’s bust when measuring centimeters vs inches! :dubious: (I learned this at a department store shopping for my wife. The bras were marked both ways; I only cared about the inches, but my compulsive brain couldn’t help but do the conversion.)
The original Barbie was based on sexy German courtesan novelty doll called Lilli.
As soon as they start filling the non-zombie Barbie’s head with actual PLAAASSSSTIIIC BRAAAAAIIINNNSSSS. She’s been pretty brainless since at least as long as my sister had one 40 years ago. Zombie Barbie will get rather hungry, otherwise.
Measurements are not bra size. As you point out, there’s a different spot to measure to get a correct fit, BUT, when women’s measurements are reported (say, to IMDB) (and which you will note, men’s measurements NEVER are), it is the measurement around the largest part of the bust.
And earlier in the thread somebody mentioned her tiny friend who had a band size of 38. Nobody who has a band size of 38 can be considered tiny. Someone who had a bust size of 38 could be tiny, but busty.