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BILDLILLI, doll, Germany, 19551964 and HONG KONG LILLI, made in Hong
Bild Lilli is the doll that Ruth Handler found while shopping in Europe in 1956 and was exactly the kind of a doll she had been thinking of producing. Mrs. Handler noticed her daughter Barbie preferred playing with her paper dolls rather than baby dolls that were prevalent at the time.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
Bild Lilli was as innovative of a doll as she was scandalous. Lilli wasn't only the world's first mass-marketed plastic fashion doll; she was also the first to come in different sizes. While the 12-inch dolls are the more famous, there were also 7-inch dolls sold at slightly lower prices but made just as well.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
A Bild Lilli doll from 1955 — the racier ancestor of Mattel's "Barbie" doll — is shown at a 2006 convention. (Frank Hormann/AP) 5 min
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BILDLILLI, Doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
Bild-Lilli doll. Unlike the German doll, the American Barbie has slightly more wholesome features. She still had a similar, curvy build. However, the makeup was lessened and helped the dolls to appear a bit more kid-friendly. The feet of the American Barbies are also quite different from the feet of the Bild Lilli dolls.
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Story of the Bild Lilli doll Barbie Amino
Walking past a toy shop in Lucerne in the Swiss Alps, both Handler and her daughter were "absolutely transfixed" by the sight of a doll they saw in the window - known as Bild Lilli. "Barbara.
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BILDLILLI, doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
This Bild Lilli doll was a platinum blonde, blue-eyed bombshell with large breasts. She wore red lipstick and blue eyeliner. Her feet were molded into black stilettos and she had arched eyebrows and sultry side-glancing eyes.
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BILDLILLI, Doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
Born in 1952 in Germany, the inspiration for America's most popular doll was a sexually assertive, modern young woman named Lilli. She emerged as a comic-strip character in Bild-Zeitung, a Hamburg newspaper, c reated by the German artist Reinhard Beuthien. On June 24, 1952, Lilli's creator was ordered to make a "filler" to conceal a blank space in the newspaper.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
A Bild Lilli doll, inspired by a German comic strip, is displayed at a Barbie collectors convention in 2006. While on the trip, Handler and a teenaged Barbara came across a Bild Lilli novelty doll.
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BILDLILLI, Doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
Barbie's appearance was modeled after a doll named the Bild Lilli, which had been inspired by a German comic-strip character. Originally marketed as a racy gag gift that men could buy in.
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BILDLILLI, doll, Germany, 19551964 and HONG KONG LILLI, made in Hong
The doll was Bild Lilli, based on a newspaper comic strip character originally aimed primarily at men, in German newspapers. (Europe has a long tradition of cartoons for adult audiences such as Asterix or Tintin .)
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Original Large Bild Lilli 3 Piece Outfit 1151 1118 Prym Snaps 1950'S
First created as a comic-strip character in the Hamburg newspaper Bild-Zeitung, the Bild Lilli doll became so popular that she was immortalized in plastic — and sold as an adult novelty,.
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Lilli & Her Sisters... Fashion dolls, Vintage barbie, Barbie fashion
The Bild Lilli doll was a West German line of fashion doll launched by Greiner & Hausser GmbH on August 12, 1955, and produced until 1964. Its design was based on the comic-strip character Lilli, created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild.
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BILDLILLI, Doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
Lilli, also known as Bild-Lilli, is a discontinued West German comic strip created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild, appearing there from 1952 to 1961.
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BILDLILLI, Doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
To make things more complicated for Bild Lilli fans, the Marx Toy Company of Hong-Kong licensed the doll design and created their own line of Bild Lilli 'clones' between the 1950s and 1960s.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany 19551964. Bukowskis
Barbie had a sister—Bild-Lilli, a racy doll marketed to men. And though the risqué 1955 doll has largely been overshadowed by the success of the American toy, she plays a part in the origin.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
The inspiration for all-American Barbie is Bild-Lilli, a doll with familiar blond hair and wasp waist that first appeared in 1955. The doll was in turn inspired by a cartoon, and a chance.