{"id":708,"date":"2012-07-02T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:50:13","slug":"sindy-dolls-and-models-of-womanhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/sindy-dolls-and-models-of-womanhood\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindy Dolls and models of womanhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_710\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-710\" href=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/sindy-dolls-and-models-of-womanhood\/air_hostess\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-710\" title=\"Air_Hostess\" src=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Air_Hostess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Air_Hostess.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Air_Hostess-82x150.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Tressy&#39; doll as Air Hostess, c1965<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A recent news story about the proposed sale of the Sindy doll brand brings up some relevant issues about young girls&#8217; role models. As a child in the 1960s it was clear to me that Sindy and Barbie represented different\u00a0&#8216;lifestyles&#8217;, and that Sindy&#8217;s was more achievable. But it wasn&#8217;t only based on British and American views of what girls wanted &#8211; the British Tressy doll was marketed as a tool to help girls learn about grooming, and had a figure similar to Barbie&#8217;s. Her wardrobe included a very aspirational Air Hostess outfit, complete with BOAC badge. That these dolls do say something about our culture was confirmed when I took my 8-year-old son shopping for presents for his younger sister and he homed in on a doll that came dressed as a vet, complete with horse: &#8216;Let&#8217;s buy this one so she can learn that girls don&#8217;t just grow up to be princesses&#8217;. How could I refuse?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-18669793\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-18669793<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent news story about the proposed sale of the Sindy doll brand brings up some relevant issues about young girls&#8217; role models. As a child in the 1960s it was clear to me that Sindy and Barbie represented different\u00a0&#8216;lifestyles&#8217;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/sindy-dolls-and-models-of-womanhood\/uncategorized\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}