Ruth Handler, Inventor of the Barbie Doll

Not only Barbie's mother, but 90% of girls aged 3 to 10 have at least one Barbie doll. Ruth handler hopes that children will live with adult fantasy through toys and live in a tall, beautiful blond doll. Barbra Millicent Roberts called Barbra was named after the daughter of Handlers. Barbie was made after the European lily doll, which was originally thought of as a gift to gags, but handlers change this idea to more. The first Barbie doll was created in 1959, transforming the toy manufacturing industry completely.

Barbie's idea began in 1959, Barbie founder Ruth handler noticed that her daughter Barbara played a paper doll and imagined their growing characters such as university students, cheerleaders, and careers. It is an adult. Ruth found that the doll on the market was a doll and needed a doll to stimulate a little girl to think about what they wanted when they grew up. Therefore Barbie, a young mannequin idea was born. With 40 years of her daughter and now, Ruth named Puppet Barbie, an industry with a more powerful annual output of more than $ 9 billion a year.

Barbie has controversial since she was born. Her creator, Ruth Handler, put Barbie's body on a single doll named Lily. Her proportion corresponds. When a handler introduced Barbie at the New York Toy Fair in 1959 (named after her daughter Barbara), her male competitors ridiculed her from her room. Nevertheless, Barbie 's sale began, but by 1963 the woman was protesting the same body men laughed. That year, a boy named Barbie just sold a diet book and advised "Do not eat". "When Barbie with a programmed phrase said" math class is difficult ", the group named Barbie Liberation Organization said this. Teach that dolls are not clean for girls, but are more important

Along with the birth of Barbie, Ruth handler changed the way girls play and how they dreamed, leaving traces of American culture forever. After seeing her daughter likes to play with a paper doll that looks like an adult, Handler proposed an idea to create a doll that looks like an adult. Her husband did not expect the idea to be sold, but in 1959 her husband Elliott sold toy house furniture and other products through their company Mattel already. Based on Toys California Hawthorne's garage. Five years later, Mattel became a Fortune 500 company. In 1967, the handler became the president of Mattel, and this position lasted until 1974. Her legacy still exists today, and Barbie brings over Million dollars of income to Mattel every year.