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In the 2023 movie Barbie, the title character, played by Margot Robbie, has a crisis over the arch of her feet. Early in the ...
Gatwa isn’t the first Time Lord to be Barbie-fied–Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor had that honor back in 2018 –but Millie ...
Soon, we had designed a research project to study the feet of Barbie dolls on the market from her launch in 1959 to June 2024 ...
You might have noticed something strange about newer Barbie dolls compared to the ones from decades ago – many no longer ...
Researchers in Australia found that the doll’s feet have, over time, gone from arched to flat — a shift that correlates with ...
Barbie has been balancing on her toes, clip clopping around in her high heels for decades - but now her feet are flatter, ...
The researchers came up with a metric to track Barbie foot changes over time — foot posture, equity, employment and time or F ...
The podiatrists studied feet on dolls produced from 1959 to 2024. And while all of the dolls had pointed feet through the ...
And with that we then saw, oh, my goodness, Barbie actually has more flat feet than we've seen before. RASCOE: That's Cylie Williams, a podiatrist and researcher at Monash University in Australia.
“The dolls with the strawberry-blonde hair are certainly the most desirable, often realising up to $3000,” he says. Those who played with Barbie or have collected the doll as an adult would also be ...
According to a new study, the proportion of Barbie-brand dolls with the toy's iconic tip-toe posture has dropped over time. Cylie Williams of Monash ...
Barbie once could only stand on her tip toes, in tiny high heels. Her job? To look pretty. A new study finds there's a correlation between flatter-footed Barbies and more job choices.