Holiday Barbie 1991 - Nothing But Class!

So we've made it solidly into the 90s! And this would be the first year that Miss Holiday Barbie was (mostly) on point.

As we saw in 1990, as far as Barbie is concerned, green is a Christmas color only secondary to pink. But when she finally embraced green, girl did it right. We have a lovely forest green here which was clearly a color of the time considering I may or may not have owned both jeans and a leather bomber jacket (suede, what else?) in the same hue. And the velvet….the only way to make this more early 90s would be if it were crushed velvet, but I’ll give it a pass as that may have looked a little odd on the scale of Barbie clothes. The only tiny misstep here is Barbie’s liberal use of her bedazzler across everything she owns, including her dress, handbag, and huge Minnie Mouse bow. But we’ll even let that one fly. It’s retro, baby!

A word of warning: Do not take this one out of the box! Normally I’m all for it with these holiday Barbies. They aren’t actually that rare for the most part. Not to mention, imagine some little 1991 child’s surprise years later when eBay comes around and slashes her pristine boxed doll’s worth by 75%. We haven’t seen such disappointment and disgust since Ralphie’s Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring turned out to just be an advertisement for more Ovaltine. But with this one..? Girl melts like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Probably best to just leave her be.

We still seem to be a couple years away in 1991 from the explosion of every winter and holiday themed Barbie you can imagine to try and play upon the popularity of these holiday divas, but if you had some talent in the art of crochet I bet you could convince Miss December 1991 to festively cover up your toilet paper roll: