More models are available with flatter feet and US producer Mattel is making the dolls more down-to-earth, according to a study by Monash University near Melbourne, Australia. Barbie, born in 1959, ...

By the 2020s, only 40 percent of Barbie dolls were designed with permanently arched feet for wearing high heels ...

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She’s keeping fashion on its toes by keeping fashionistas off their tiptoes. In Barbie’s world, real-life glamor girls on-the ...

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.

The podiatrists studied feet on dolls produced from 1959 to 2024. And while all of the dolls had pointed feet through the ...

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Simply put, Barbie is becoming a modern woman. “Barbie appears to reflect what many high heel wearers (mainly women) do every ...

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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 ...