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Barbie Fashion Show
Published on September 10th, 2004
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In Barbie Fashion Show, girls team up with Barbie to design outfits for 20 fashion collections including “School Spirit” and “Barbie Bridal”, and they choreograph fashion shows to display their creations.
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To create outfits, girls head to Barbie’s Design Table to pick from over 70 clothing patterns including tops, bottoms, and dresses. Once a pattern is selected, girls create the clothing by choosing from over 240 different fabrics. An easy-to-use interface and special brushes allow girls to combine fabrics; and 80 different decals add pizzazz.
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When a collection is complete, girls choose among Barbie and four of her friends to model the outfits. The friends have different skin colors that hint at ethnicity, but the faces all resemble Barbie’s so this attempt at diversity is lukewarm at best. Girls can accessorize the models by choosing from 88 hairstyles and 88 shoe styles.
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Next, budding fashion designers customize their own fashion shows by choosing the shape of the stage, the background, the runway textures, the stage decorations, the music, the lights, and the models’ moves. After tweaking each option, girls proudly watch their clothing designs flutter and flow over the models as they spin, twirl and pose on the runways. They can also snap “photos” of their style shows and then play them back for friends.
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Cleverly, the program doesn’t give girls all the patterns and fabric options in the beginning—they are unlocked gradually during the first 10 assignments.
Girls can even try to share their creations by uploading them to www.Barbie.com, where Mattel will select some of the designs to post.
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| The Bottom Line |
| A great way to get fashion-conscience girls interested in playing on the computer. |
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| Summary |
| Age |
6 - 14 |
Platform |
Windows |
| Price |
$30.00 |
Category |
Girl Software |
| Grade |
1 -
8
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ISBN |
0-7849-2459-7 |
| Company |
Vivendi Universal Games
http://www.vugames.com
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All software is judged on a five star scale by looking at the following five factors:
educational, fun, ease of use, value, technical.
Jinny Gudmundsen is the Editor of Computing With Kids magazine. If you have
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© 2008 Computing With Kids
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