Ken dolls are beat a makeover for the modern era . The Huffington Postreports thatBarbie’sother half will now be available in different consistence types , skin tones , hair colors , and styles .
The Barbie Fashionistas line — which added a more divers range of Barbiesin 2016 — willnow includeKen wench that occur in three physical structure types ( “ slim , ” “ broad , ” and “ original ” ) , seven cutis tones , eight hair colours , and nine different hairsbreadth styles ( including a man - roll ) . Now , son and girl can play with Barbies that see more like substantial people , who might lark cornrows , have a larger body , need glass , or just be more fain to bust white than the originalBaywatch - bod Ken .
The update comes in the wake of vie toy dog companies debut dolls with realistic body character and differentskin color . While Barbie is still an icon of the plaything cosmos , dolly ( both virile and distaff ) like Lammily add up in measurements that are base onaverage humanity , without Barbie’simpossible proportion . Though the effect is not clear - shorten , some study havesuggestedthat Barbie ’s unrealistic tone could make girls less slaked with their own body .
After geezerhood of getting flak for promoting sexuality stereotypes and mad stunner measure , Mattel has been trying to extend its collection with moves like adding raw hide tones and , in 2015 , cooperate onan adthat showed a boy playing with Barbies for the first metre .
If Barbie is draw a makeover to help her reverberate how people look in actual life , Ken ca n’t only come in one ( unobjectionable - cut Caucasoid beefcake ) chassis . Even if that means we have to accept Man - Bun Ken .
[ h / tTheHuffington Post ]
