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"Tressy" was trademarked in 1963 as a doll with "hair that grows" by the American Character Toy Company of New York. It was first sold as an 11½" fashion doll similar to Mattel's Barbie and by the late 60s as a larger preteen doll by the Ideal Toy Company. Tressy featured a long swatch of hair that could be pulled out of the top of the doll's ...
The creative idea and realization of a doll that “grows” hair originated not at Ideal Toy Company, but at the American Character Doll Company.The Ideal Corporation obtained the patents for the basic mechanism when they acquired them from the American Character Doll Company after that company's 1968 closure. [1]
Pre-Teen (1963) — 14" grow-hair vinyl doll with a button on the tummy that enabled the doll's hair to grow or retract; only made in 1963, then was discontinued to make way for Tressy Sally Says (1963-1965) — 18"-19" vinyl toddler doll with a battery-operated talker
“Debuting in 1992, Barbie Totally Hair is the brand’s best-selling doll of all time, selling over 100 million units in its first three years on shelves,” the brand said in an email.
The second doll, Growing Hair Cher, came in a hot pink box and featured a "Key" that kids could use to change the length of Cher's hair. This doll wore a black and silver dress and black open-toed shoes. Growing Hair Cher's dress had a number of subtle style variations, and the doll itself was packaged in two different types of boxes.
The girl dolls feature rooted hair and eyelashes. The boy dolls have molded hair. The dolls were quite popular and they topped sales of Barbie for a while, but were discontinued when Topper went out of business in 1973. [1] The dolls were reissued in 2000 by Checkerboard as a 30-year commemoration of the first Dawn dolls made by Topper, and ...