How many Ken's do you have? Oh, I liked Ken a lot more than Barbie, so I have a whole bunch and this is baseball Ken

This is yeah, this one slightly later. That was the original Ken from 1961

But this one is Ken and the baseball outfit with the enormous bass kind of his phallic props and the chip tear

He's not wearing I think what he came within the box. I don't think they came quite that

Broccoli cross-dress

No, I got these out of storage

Ken is wearing solo in the spotlight. Oh, Charlotte's one of Charlotte's favorite designs

Barbie slinky black shantoo's outfit with a 2-2 that was originally and on Barbie a 2-2 at the ankles

But here it sort of falls more mid-caf on Ken

Most of us never knew of a time when there was just Barbie no Ken no mage no skipper

Just a gallon her own and Ruth Handler her and Benner and co-founder of Mattel really didn't want a boyfriend for Barbie

Barbie was intended to be about that period, you know in a girl's life or young woman's life

With no relationships of responsibility no parents no kids and a boyfriend kind of interfered with that vision

Except of course that to all the mothers and little girls, you know who had the doll

Well, they all had this notion that a woman without a man and escort and

Excessory a thing was a failure and

Mattel had to cave to that and Ruth had to realize that you know

You couldn't push back against that title wave of opinion and so by popular demand Ken was introduced in

1961

So now Mattel brings you Ken

Barbie boyfriend get both Barbie and Ken and

Be whether romance will lead do you ever think there's been a kid who didn't immediately

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