What are Barbie clothes going for these days?
We're trying to put a reasonable price on some for a craft fair. Don't want to say $10 for a dress if they can buy something similar at ToysRUs for $3, but don't want to say $3 if ToysRUs is selling them for $15.
Bwahahahahahahahaha! I can't help you, Karen, because LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! my DD has outgrown Barbidols. Free at last, I'm free at last! ;-D
You don't say whether the clothes you want to sell are secondhand Mattel ones or home-made ones. Genuine Mattel clothing is very expensive, especially if it has accessories like shoes or bags. Good secondhand can never command the same price, but even having said that, I made quite a bit of money for school fundraising with Barbidol ballgowns made out of bridal and formal remnants. It takes hardly any time at all to gather a skirt and stitch it to a strapless bodice. If you can get hold of good scraps from a seamstress (satin, silk, brocade etc), you can make really spiffy ballgowns and little girls just *love* them. I'd charge $7 or $8 for such a thing if I were donating my time for free, $10 or $12 if you wanted to charge for assembly time. It's worth presenting the clothes nicely: stitch them loosely onto a bit of pink cardboard and add a tiny artificial flower or ribbon bow.
Good luck! ;-D
Oh, PS. You can also make a *bundle* of money by picking up secondhand Barbidols from the Op Shops. You take them home, clean them up, soak their heads in fabric softener or conditioner for a couple of days and style the hair. Dress them nicely and you can charge whatever you like for them!
PPS. Despite my whinging, making Barbidol clothes is enormous fun when you can get access to nice fabric remnants. A rctn friend sent me a packet of great patterns about ten years ago and boy did I get some good use out of them. Now, my friend is using them to make stuff for her DD and has promised to pass the patterns on when she's finished with them.
PPPS. The most popular thing I ever made for Barbie was a miniature replica of DD's school uniform. They sold like hotcakes to kids from her school!
I would like to gather up every Barbie I could and have a big bonfire. It amazes me that women would still buy these damned things for their daughters ! Think anorexia for one.
That's why we were thinking of a corner of Barbie stuff to fill out the table, because she CAN whip up a dress a minute on the machine and I can knit them up in a jiffy. Much faster than the other craft items, and because they're smaller, we can spread them out to fill up space.
There are some Barbie dolls that aren't available in the shops. NOT for those of a sensitive disposition!
Oh Bruce....
Cheryl
I'd go on the "This is an Original" idea and charge $3 to $7 for them. Outfits at Toys R Us are $12. (according to the Toys R Us website)
Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up.
And here is the antipodean version:
Now that was funny! Transgender Barbie is my favorite!
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If you think Barbies are bad, check out Bratz:
If you are looking for things to make for a craft fair, I've heard/ seen that some of the really simple outline stuff is in style. Someone suggested embroidering onesies or little jackets for babies with things like this:
hmm, maybe I should make some and sell them!
Linda
I HATE bratz. Not allowed in the house. Actually, got one from someone and we dropped in a charity bin before we got home. Thankfully, DD doesn't like bratz either. C
When our neice was about 9 she was extremely inappropriate around my husband, constant straddling his lap and legs, never beiing corrected by her mother, my SIL. By the time she was 10 she was wearing belly shirts, heels, makeup and Mark and I looked at each other and said, that's a pole dancer in the making.
She's 15 now and is garrish to look at. She had about 30 Bratz dolls and was allowed to have them everywhere in a heaping mess all over the house. The poor kid is an emotional mess. Sorry for the rant, but these dolls tell a lot about CERTAIN kids. Not all, of course.
We still think she'll be a pole dancer by the time she's 18. Shame, really.
You can get a nice dollar for American Girl Doll clothes. I don't know how fast that work would be, but I do know parents spend a fortune on the dolls and the clothes.
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Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them.
Only one of each size... $20 investment. All the animals are the same basic shape. Excepting the snakes. C
The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it.
Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale.
Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue.
Excuse Me!!! Why would you think grannies, or great-grannies wouldn't know about the latest hot toy that their grandkids want? Some of us GOW's actually get out of the house on occasion and keep up with the trends.
Some of us older folk even play games on one of those new fangled puter thingies and drive to stores and watch TV and nowadays we actually know how to read and write and get out of the kitchen.
I do hope you were kidding when you underestimated grannies!!!
Lucille
I used to sew a lot and often made duplicate outfits for the dolls to match ones I made my girls. A local church sold Barbie outfits a few years ago, and they didn't sell as well as you would think. Some people said their kids wanted the "real" Barbie clothes and most others didn't think anything should be more than $3, even some pretty fancy evening gowns. We ended up donating most of them to charity.
At least the cost outlay is minor if you already have fabric scraps, trim, small buttons or yarn. I've still got a ton of the clothes and dolls in my attic waiting for my granddaughter to get a little older. I've got garage sale dolls I'm refurbishing and plan to add some clothes to a few of them for my youngest niece. Moni ---- Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider ----
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