Posts Tagged ‘Barbie doll’

This Barbie is the same doll wearing the hanbok in an earlier post, but now it is wearing a kimono, the traditional Japanese dress. I am happy to have found this kimono in a toy store in Odeon Terminal Mall in Recto, Manila. But I will be happier to get a doll kimono in Japan [...]


This is my Barbie of Manila, Philippines. She is wearing a version of baro’t saya, the traditional dress of women in the Philippines. She is the other doll that got me started in this little project. The first doll, Barbie in a hanbok, is not exactly Korean Barbie. The hanbok was bought in Insadong in Seoul, [...]