Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday: Corduroy Cool Barbie 1999


Chloe in a 1999 Fashion Ave outfit with replaced shoes.
Chloe enjoying the garden.

Today’s Friday Girl is Corduroy Cool Barbie from 1999. She has the older twist and turn body, ballet arms and her face is the Mackie sculpt. Chloe, as I call her, was one of my early collecting buys. In the late nineties there were so many nice play line Barbies to choose from but even then I looked for something a bit different. In her case it was the strawberry blonde curly hair.

I do have her original outfit but at present it is packed in one of my boxes in the shed. You can see a photo of it here.

Today Chloe is wearing a Fashion Avenue fashion from 1999. This outfit should really have platform shoes in a shade of blue closer to the jacket but they have gone walkabout so I have used another pair that match well.

Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  2. I have this doll, too, along with the one in the blue corduroy overalls. They were pretty dolls. Can’t believe that much time has passed since it came out! Time flies.

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  4. I also appreciate her lovely hair and face. The striped knit of her original outfit reminds me of Missoni, the Italian designer. She is available on eBay and it was fun to research her and the other Corduroy Cool dolls.

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  5. Isn’t that always the case , this doll is lovely, like both outfits. I had the cool blue corduroy gal but she had articulated arms and flat feet with high top trainers.)The overalls fit the Francine and other vintage dolls I gave a best friend.The turquoise outfit w/ this dolls strawberry blond hair is striking. I am so tempted to buy her but as long as I can visit her via this blog, I can not over stuff my doll room, well too much.

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