Regression Obsession: Hot Looks Dolls
Posted at 3:41 PM Mar 11, 2009
By Sharon Steel |
In 1986, the same year Pleasant Rowland began selling American Girl dolls by mail-order catalogs, Mattel set their sights on a more glamorous line of girly toys. Their Hot Looks Dolls were glamazonian stockinette figures with heads made of vinyl and long, long hair. Unlike the American Girls, who represented modest pre-teens from various periods in U.S. history, the Hot Looks favored a glitzier path toward success, having come from all over the world to sign on as models at the Hot Looks Agency. Stacey was from the U.S., Elkie from Sweden, Chelsea hailed from London, Mimi from France, and Zizi from Africa. Check out the rad commercial, featuring The Fresh Prince of Bel Air's Tatyana Ali.
Every time we look at Elkie, we think of Stacy from The Baby-sitter's Club. The perfect doll ringer if there ever was one.
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