More than just clothes The book offers patterns for crocheting outfits as well as photos of Barbie, Ken and other friends and family that, for real people today, might be pulled from cellphone photos: ...

Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls and trucks,” ...