The Barbie Dolls In the
mid 1940s, the young ambitious Duo Ruth and Elliott Handler owned a company that
made wooden pictures frames (结构). It was in 1945 that Ruth and Elliot Handler
jointed with their close friend Harold Mattson to form a company that would be
known for the most famous and successful doll ever created. The company would be
named Mattel, MATT for Mattson, and EL for Elliot. In the mid
1950s, while visiting Switzerland, Ruth Handler purchased a German Lilli doll.
Lilli was a sharply, pretty fashion doll first made in 1955. She was originally
fashioned after a famous cartoon character in the West German Newsletter, Build.
Lilli is the doll that would inspire Ruth Handler to design
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