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| Francie®
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| Information
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| Age
| young adult
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| Year
| 1966
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| Ethnicity
| Caucasian
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Francie® was introduced in 1966 as Barbie®'s cousin.
Important!
All concepts and designs relating to these dolls and sculpts belong to Mattel®.
Francie® Dolls
1966/68
| 1140 - Straight Leg Francie
- moulded eyelashes
- non-twist waist
- non-bendable legs
- shoulder length hair with a flip style fringe in either blonde or brunette
- this Francie came in two different swimsuite versions
- outfit version #1 consisted of a white top with red spots together with a bottom in a small red and white checked pattern cut on bias with a front bow accent
- outfit version #2 was a white top with red spots but the bottom now had a larger red and white checked pattern, also cut on bias with a front bow accent
- both versions came with red soft pointed rubber shoes with low heels from Japan
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1966/67
| 1130 - Bend Leg Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- bendable legs
- non-twist waist
- shoulder length hair with a flip style fringe in either blonde or brunette
- outfit - one piece stretch acrylic top with print(multicoloured with a few versions), cotton plain green bottom and white soft pointed rubber shoes with low heeles made in Japan
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1966/68
| 1170 - Twist N Turn Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- shoulder length hair, flip style with fringe, in blonde and brunette
- outfit - 1 piece stretch acrylic top multicoloured stripe and cotton bottom plain bright pink swimsuit with attached green plastic belt with gold metal buckle accent
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1966/68
| 1100 - Twist N Turn Black Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- there were two versions of this doll version #1 - reddish below shoulder length hair style with fringe version #2 - dark brown hair in the same style
- outfit - multicoloured 2 piece swimsuit with attached sheer white top
NOTE - this doll is rare and very very very expensive because apparently the public was not buying many coloured dolls in this period when they were produced, one wonders what happened to them all.
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1969
| 1170 - Twist N Turn Francie Short Flip
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- short curly flip style hair cut with centre part and fringe with pink elastic hair band in blonde and brunette
- outfit - one piece stretch acrylic swimsuit top part is plain and is separated from bottom part with a yellow plastic band bottom has narrow yellow diagonal stripes
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1970
| 1170 - Twist N Turn Francie Short Flip - different swimsuit
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- short curly flip style hair cut with centre part and fringe with yellow elastic hair band in blonde and brunette
- outfit - swimsuit is yellow multicolour floral front wrap top with spaghetti straps and pink nylon or plastic shorts
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1970
| 1122 - Hair Happenin' Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- short blonde bob hairstyle with centre part fringe and blue ribbon hair band she also comes with 4 hairpieces - bun with elastic braided hairpiece on metal band with sausage curls tied with pink yarn headpiece on metal band with flip curls tied with orange ribbon and another headpiece on metal band with yellow front ribbon - all blonde
- outfit - short blue nylon dress with cotton lace accents and sewn in pants aqua pointed soft rubber low heeled shoes
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1970/73
| 1129 - Growin' Pretty Hair Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- blonde hair with fringe and side curls pulled up into a bun with retractable ponytail 2nd version in 1971/73 also comes with 2 hairpieces one with centre part and the other a double braid secured at top with pink satin bow white brush & comb 8 metal bobby pins on pink card and 2 white fabric flowers
- outfit - pink lame and satin dress with silver net over skirt and sewn in pants also pink pointed soft rubber japan low heel shoes
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1970
| 1170 - Twist N Turn (no bangs) Francie
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- blonde or brunette long flip hairstyle brushed back from front of face and secured with orange elastic hair band no fringe
- outfit - orange pleated dress with white vinyl accents trim orange pants and soft white mod buckle shoes
NOTE - this doll is very very expensive
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1971
| 1068 - Malibu Francie
- moulded eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- outfit - 2 tone pink one piece swimsuit with yellow band accent
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1972/73
| 3313 - Busy Francie
- moulded eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- outfit - casual ribbed singlet top with red belt which has goldtone metal buckle demium jeans and mod square toe flat shoes
- accessories - comes with lots of brown plastic accessories including television record player record telephone tray and 2 tumblers
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1973/74
| 4222 - Quick Curl Francie
- moulded eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- outfit - yellow spotted white long dress with ruffle accented at neckline and sleeves with sheer material ruffle and velvet trim white square mod flat shoes
- accessories - pink brush comb and curler set of hair ribbons with white clips and 4 rubber bands
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1975/76
| 7699 - Baggie Francie
- moulded eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- outfit - 2 piece yellow stretch acrylic bathers
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Francie®'s Friends
1967/70
| 1180 - Twist N Turn Casey
- rooted eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- blonde short hair with side part
- outfit - one piece white with gold knit top gold lame bottom with gold attached belt with metal buckle has gold tone trianglular metal earring which turns the ear green
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1975/76
| 9000 - Baggie Casey
- moulded eyelashes
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- outfit - hot pink 2 piece stretch acrylic swimsuit
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1967/68
| 1185 - Twiggy
- rooted eyelashes with added heavy eyeliner
- twist and turn waist
- bendable legs
- same face mould as Casey
- blonde short hair with side part
- outfit - blue yellow & green vertical stripe cotton dress with medium short yellow boots and pants
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Francie® Reproduction Dolls
Credits
Thanks to Kathy B of the ABC Doll Club for the majority of this information .