New Clothing Sets

Ok, as promised my next post (as in, this one you are looking at! :P) is about new Barbie clothes that I spotted as I was doing my Christmas shopping. Stores did add quite a bit of new stuff just before Christmas, tho I've been disappointed not to find any of the big "off label" type clothing sets I've found in the past. I looked at Wal-Mart, K-Mart (all the marts. haha), and Target. I did glance in Kohl's too, but I don't pin them as the type of place where they do anything other then get overstock from the other places I just mentioned. So I am not sure if that leaves anywhere else. It's not just the big 'store label' doll clothes packs that are missing. In previous years, I have seen all kinds of toys packaged that way. This year I really only saw a couple! I don't know if this is something about the recession (but I would've thought that stuff would sell even better in a recession) or just that whoever made that stuff before isn't making it now.

For an example of what I mean, here's a picture of one of my beloved Kerri Mitchell/Designer's Choice sets from Target:


Ah well, no sense crying over what's not there. Let's move on to the things I DID see.

First up, some things that are not strictly clothes. A couple of those "100+ pose" dolls that just came out. I hadn't seen these before, for whatever reason:





Target had them on sale for $7.99 (down from $9.99) this week (last week?) so I bought one. I like the funky purse, but I'm actually undecided if buying her was wise...


So far that's been one of my few good holiday deals though. I was in CT for thanksgiving, so prior to my trip into NYC I decided to make an early morning trip to the mall. I've never done this, so it was in the spirit of adventure and all. In preparation, I dutifully read all the circulars, but even then, didn't see anything too intriguing. Walmart promised it had some really cheap Candy Glam dolls, so I went in search of those. Here's the Barbie aisle at Walmart:


There were several new outfits I hadn't seen before. I though maybe they were walmart exclusives, but later trips to Target showed they were just new. More on those later. One thing I saw that really intrigued me was this cute Moxie dollhouse:


Another thing I saw that I hadn't seen before was this cute "bird-watching" Barbie:


After quite a bit of searching, I finally found the Candy Glam dolls that were on sale.


These were not the nice ones that I had seen earlier at Target! Boo!!
(I didn't get a good picture of the nicer version, so check this one by Impossible Princess on flickr if you don't know what I mean)

Moving on (finally! XD) to the outfit sets, I was also disappointed to note that the outfit sets had been reduced from 4 outfits to only 3 (and not any cheaper!).









There were also quite a few new single outfit sets. Unfortunately I feel like the price went up a bit on those too (They are $6.59 at Target). On the plus side, there are a bunch of new boys outfits...




The purple dress on the right side is pretty funny because there's basically a sheriff's star pinned to the shoulder strap! XD







This set has some really interesting shoes!




My favorite of the new outfits is that flight attendant outfit, but I haven't been able to talk myself into buying it yet.

I also just recently found these smaller outfit sets (no shoes). Kind of cute, but still $3.


Not a Barbie, but had to show off this latest Hannah Montana doll too - Christmas theme!