THE BARBIE FAMILY & FRIENDS TREE

Doll Fashion Anthology Price Guide, 4th Edition, 1995, A. Glenn Mandeville, Hobby House Press, Grantsville, Maryland.

Barbie and other fashion dolls satisfy in a human being the need for continuity in one's life...a feeling that the glorious past and the brilliant future are united. Since fashion doll collectors in general, and Barbie doll collectors in particular, seem to be upwardly mobile individuals with a strong sense of self-worth, it seems safe to say that the teen fashion doll collectors' world is indeed a golden one.