Vintage Skipper Treasure Trove is an additional website to my four previous websites on Vintage Skipper dolls.
Here you can find everything which doesn't fit on the original pages due to storage problems (maximum size of these free pages).
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If you can help identify any of the fashions pictured and/or want to contact me, please use the contact form on vintageslskipper@jimdo.com (sometimes it may take weeks or months though until I have time to check for new mail)
A 1960s "Plasty" dress for Barbie sized German competitor "Petra" (#19 "Zürich") looks like a copy of Skipper’s “Happy Birthday” fashion. The photograph shows a Swirl Barbie dressed in the clone dress described together with a vintage Skipper doll wearing a "Peggy" by Plasty “Happy Birthday” clone dress in pink.
There’s a Skipper Fashion Value Guide 1964 - 1976 printed on paper, with wonderful drawings and a listing of all the fashions and accessories that go with them. The author is Linda Pilkenton. She also did the drawings. The guide was printed in 1990 - probably before these detailed descriptions were available anywhere else.
On the backside of the brochure there's a picture of Linda, who received her first Skipper doll in 1964. She became a devoted collector and she was the founder and 1990 president of the Barbie Friends of Albuquerque, N.M. Club.
The guide is a wonderful small reference book made with lots of love and shouldn't be forgotten.
In 2015, the Italian Jazz musician Massimo Ferra released a CD called “Skipper Doll”. It shows pictures of vintage Skipper and Skooter dolls. One instrumental is called “Skipper Doll” and if you search online you can find a video showing lots of lovely Skippers (you can find a link below).
I contacted Massimo Ferra and asked for permission to mention his CD. His wife loves and collects Skipper dolls.
“Massimo Ferra Guitar Six: Skipper Doll” by Sardmusic, Cover design: Gio Piras - MangioDesign