The last part of the video made me remind of a thing from my childhood!! My mom is from the 80s, so when I was a kid in the 00s, she gave me her old barbies and their clothes. That included a lingerie set, with frilly babydoll set and a white/green lacy robe, that she made herself when she was a preteen (she was a seamstress for most of her life) I remember using them for my "rich" barbies lol, they were one of my holy grails of my barbie collection, and as a kid, it made me wonder why we never got more nightwear for dolls.

I was a little girl in the 80's and lingerie for Barbie sounded completely normal to me.
Lingerie was everywhere, on fashion catalogs, in the shops' windows, even at the supermarket, with lace and everything . So it was not surprising Barbie had some too.
I even hated when I couldn't find a panty for my barbie to wear before anything else 😅 Pantyless Barbie? That wouldn't do!!! 😂

The person illustrating all these boxes was killing it. I'd love a video just about the evolution box art and how they changed with changing technology. The 80's style illustrations are my favorite.

If I may, to give some cultural context as  a woman who lived though the 1980s as a child, the context for a doll in lingerie would be far less risqué than you might think. Women of that time wore lingerie daily...camisoles over bras, slips, even teddies as an underlayer over bras and under blouses or dresses. It was a normal part of dressing for work or dressing to socialize. People were generally more socially active, and standards of dress were generally higher, perhaps not as formal as the constructed undergarments of the 50s and 60s, definitely more organic, but definitely still an essential layer as part of getting dressed. I watched my mom get ready for parties (of which there were many more), social events for work and just visiting at friends or going  to dinner, a hundred times in my childhood, and there was always lingerie as part of any outfit. It wasn't fetishized as it is now, it was part of a ladies outfit, part of being a lady...like hats and gloves used to be. There was nothing edgy about a doll in a camisole, nor the word lingerie. Imagine a grown woman preparing for an evening out, sitting at her dressing table doing her makeup in her teddy and a robe, in her nylons, waiting for the last finishing touch of her dress. It was, to us at the time, glamorous, ladylike and quite proper, little girls would aspire to be so ladylike as their  Mom, getting ready to go out. So barbie was a way to play at that aspiration.

Yep - the term "lingerie" has taken on more adult connotations these days. Also sachets (pronounced "sashay" - think like Rupaul) were much more common back then.

You're the first person I've heard not describe Bild Lili as a sex doll so thank you 🙏

Correcting that one blurb about build lily:
Lily was NOT a gag gift for men, she was bought like anime figures and collectible figures of today. She even had clothing to buy separately and were even bought for children. She wasn’t ‘Promiscuous” in the sense of a prostitute, it was just known that she had a sex drive and wasn’t a virgin. Thats it. Lily was a secretary mascot for a paper, not some pornstar or what have you. Also, mattel used the fact that the creator of lily didn’t understand english to essentially rob them legally and when lily’s creator realized what happened, it was too late. And the american legal system is actually quite racist.

Honestly, the lingerie isn’t even that racy. They strike me as more “fancy nighties.” It’s cute.

can we just take a moment 2 appreciate her outfit???? those poofy floral shoulders with the layered pearls is such a slay, hair on point, blue shimmery eyeshadow and a gorgeous smile. way 2 out-glamour the dolls!!!!

I owned the Beauty Secrets Christie doll and a Creata Flower Princess doll. I also remember buying lingerie fashion packs. I use to pretend my Barbies were doing commercials like I saw on TV. Mind you, I am an 80s kid. So to have panties and bras for your doll made it seem more realistic. This was a great video, so keep it up.

You looking like a literal doll, whilst discussing dolls, is just *chef’s kiss*! 🤌✨🌸

Bearing in mind that laundry detergents were pretty vile smelling in the 80s and fabric softener was generally unscented, little fabric bags filled with lavender were the usual way to keep clothes fresh between washing and wearing.  Sandalwood and cedar were also used to keep moths away.  As for the use of the word “lingerie” - it was the department stores’ traditional way of being “refined” and is still used today in many stores.  

One of the criticisms of Barbie was that often she didn’t have underwear - so Mattel started to paint knickers onto the dolls, and later briefs became part of the moulding.

Beauty secrets Barbie was actually a response to kenners Darci! Also adorned in lace frillies

90s grunge we loved wearing lacey silk nighty dresses with combat/doc boots.

I was a little girl in the 80's.  Practically every woman and many girls I knew had scented sachets in their underwear drawer.  Often lavender, rose, or lilac, but sometimes one matching a favorite brand of perfume.  I had a lilac one.  

As far as lingerie, the connotation has changed.  Lingerie was a normal part of dressing - sure, it included things like bras and panties, but also stuff like satin dressing gowns and camisoles with lace, slips, pretty nightgowns, stuff like that. It was pretty common to see women in media or your own mom in satin robes and nylons putting on makeup  and doing their hair.  It wasnt a sexy thing so much as a glamor thing.

Some of those Flower Princess doll designs are too good to not have been used in a Saturday morning cartoon. A cartoon I would've gobbled up like a rabid animal if I were a child in the 80s. Now I must have these dolls!

What a lovely nostalgia filled video you put together. Back in the 80s lingerie was just the word used for non streetwear. Ladies wore a lot more underwear then, full slips, half slips, full girdles (my grandma right up until her death in 2005 always wore a girdle that was a bra and corset all in one with stocking fasteners on the bottom edge then big stretch cotton knickers on top ….very glamorous, not) panty girdles (what my mum wore in the 60s/70s), bras, long line bras, garter belts because stockings were still commonplace and we didn’t have stay up ones, housecoats, nighties and pjs the list goes on and on. It was all to be found in the ladies lingerie section of department stores or in dedicated shops well into the 80s and beyond- Nana was buying her long line girdles somewhere and I wore a slip or half slip under some of my work dresses so they didn’t cling/ride up.
Lingerie wasn’t “saucy” it was just what women wore, (“intimate apparel” however…) and a scented sachet (pronounced sashay) for their lingerie drawer was a very popular gift to give your female relatives They often sold at school fetes or craft fairs and were taught as a simple sewing project. They were usually filled with dried lavender or rose petals as I recall. I also remember that dolls with fabric underpants were not that unusual even my miniature dolls had knickers on.
Now I feel old lol.

I definitely think these dolls were odd but I guess they make more sense when you think about how normal it was for girls to have dolls as teenagers/super young adults. As a sidebar, I’m an early 90s baby but had a lot of 80s hand me downs and I remember having some kind of fashion doll that came with blue lingerie. I think my sister and I treated them like pajamas and just assumed that adults had lacy pajamas lol

Everyone had little lingerie sachets in the 80s, little girls too. Potpurri of every kind was a huge trend, personally I get migraines feom artificial scents so I hated most of it. But everyone wanted their underwear to smell like lavender, there's nothing icky about it.

“Sachet” with a pronounced “T” is killing me