Can Curvy Barbie wear vintage Barbie doll clothes? #BarbieStyle #ChristmasGifts

In this vintage sewing pattern for Barbie (Simplicity 4510), we see the following outfits pictured on the cover of the envelope: View 1: a wedding dress with veil in an early 1960's style; view 2: a three-quarter sleeved sweater that buttons in front paired with an A-line satiny skirt; view 3: an evening gown with one bare shoulder and one sleeveless shoulder, having a tulle skirting over the top of the pencil skirt of the primary red garment; view 4: a dress reminiscent of the "walkaway" dress for Barbie, having an apron-ish feel to it with a swatch of lace in front of the apron-style dress; view 5: two dolls model this set, which includes a bikini swimsuit and ruffle-at-the-bottom swimsuit coverup; view 6: a slip or nightgown with lace bodice. These are the images representing the doll clothes patterns contained in the envelope for Simplicity 4510 for vintage Barbie dolls, according to the cover art on the package (envelope) for the patterns. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I was pleased to discover that Curvy Barbie was able to wear one of the garments from this vintage Simplicity 4510 doll clothes pattern from the 1960’s! But which garment do you think it is…? Which view from the envelope?

Give it a guess before scrolling down to see if you’re right.

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On the left, we see the cover art for the view 2 sweater or jacket with three-quarter length sleeves and the blue dress, displayed on the envelope for Simplicity 4510 doll clothes patterns. Beside this envelope drawing of the jacket or sweater and the matching skirt (worn in the cover art by a ponytail Barbie), stands a real bubble cut strawberry-blond Barbie, modeling a handmade pale blue sweater with matching satin A-line skirt, looking a LOT like the drawing from the envelope. The similarity is remarkable. Then, beside this image, we get a close-up of the fabric used for the sweater. It's a boucle-looking sweater fabric with two rows of very tiny white buttons forming a line down the front of the sweater that Bubble Cut Barbie wears. To the right of this image, a curvy Barbie with a Christie style head sculpt models the same jacket, but under the sweater or jacket made from sweater fabric, Curvy Barbie (Christie) wears a pair of denim-colored pants and a pair of white plastic sneakers. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

It’s the sweater or jacket from View 2!

Granted, Curvy can’t wear the skirt. It’s just too tight around the middle. But for those of you who have taken (or are currently enrolled in) my How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns course on C & T Publishing’s Creative Spark Online Learning platform, it shouldn’t bee too difficult to alter that skirt to fit Curvy too, using the techniques that I teach in the “How to Alter Skirts” section of the course.

Altering that A-line skirt to make a pattern of my own that fits Curvy Barbie is something I’d like to do, somewhere down the road. And I’m sure I’ll be making more versions of this jacket or sweater for Curvy in the future.

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Now you might be thinking, “That’s not Curvy. That’s Christie.”

And in truth, you wouldn’t be wrong. A child played with my Curvy Barbie a couple of years ago and ruined her hair. So I bought myself a Christie head on eBay that was reasonably priced, and stuck it on my modern Curvy Barbie‘s body (the same body that you see pictured below).

So it’s true that Curvy Barbie bodies can wear the View 2 sweater or jacket form Simplicity 4510, even though it looks like a Christie that’s modeling the outfit.

The pants are a slight alteration on the pegged pants that I’ve been offering as a free pattern in the Curvy Barbie gallery of free patterns on my website. You might remember seeing this pair of pants before:

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I just widened the pant legs a bit, to make those blue pants that you see in the images farther up above. Again, if you want to learn how to make alterations like that, hang around after today’s blog post. The area at the bottom of the page talks about how you can sign up for my “How to Alter Doll Clothes Patterns” course, if you’re interested.

But did you also see how true-to-the-original my skirt-and-top combo turned out?

Here’s my vintage bubble cut Barbie modeling the whole ensemble from View 2 of Simplicity 4510.

Here we see a strawberry-blond Bubble-cut Barbie modeling a handmade blue sweater with three-quarter length sleeves attached at the shoulder in raglan style, coupled with a very similar blue satin A-line skirt that has just a tad bit of white cotton peeking out from under the skirt. The doll wears blue plastic mule-style pumps, reminiscent of vintage Barbie shoes from the 1960's. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

That ice blue satin seems to go so well with the blue of the sweater fabric. They really make a lovely business suit!

And I even found a pair of matching ice blue pumps to go with the whole outfit. So cute!

Does it seem like the sweater is a little bulky? That may be due to the fact that I lined it with white cotton. Even with the extra bulk, though, it still fits my Curvy Barbie quite nicely.

Here we see the shirt from view 2 of Simplicity 4510 and the skirt from Simplicity 4510, each showing that they are lined with white cotton. Figure one shows the outer part of the sweater under construction with its sleeves attached; figure two shows the lining of the sweater from View 2 with bits of blue sweater fabric peeking through the seams; figure three shows the skirt from view 2 of Simplicity 4510 from the inside-view, as a woman's hand brings together the skirt's pieces at the back, where they will be sewn together to form a seam at the back closure area. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I lined the skirt, too, as you can see in Figure 3 above.

I’m pretty happy with how the whole thing turned out, but I was especially excited to find out that the three-quarter-length sleeve sweater (or jacket) can fit Curvy Barbie. I couldn’t wait to share that discovery with everyone!

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