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By popular request, here is my Scarlet Letter Barbie:

To make your own, find a "Pilgrim Barbie" for about 20 bucks on ebay (there are lots of them). Marvel at their bizarre decision to put a puritan in a SCARLET DRESS. Carefully clip the three SCARLET bows off of the front of her bodice. Take red pen and draw an A on the bodice where the bows were. Ta-da!

I adore dolls, and I sort of enjoy the particularly awful ones, although I mostly don't buy the particularly awful ones. Except for when I simply must - I think I have Native American Barbie and Pioneer Barbie around here somewhere, as well as Pilgrim Barbie, who thanks to her red dress has been modified by yours truly to be Scarlet Letter Barbie.

Anyway, they're really pulling out all the stops for the 50th anniversary many-nations Barbies. So far I've only seen three, but oooo, they are simply delicious in their awfulness, and portray our international friends in the best possible light. (Pictures linked from Angelic Dreamz, which is a very nice store. Don't blame them! )

France:

Whorish can-can girl with fishnet stockings and lace-covered boobies
Scotland (this one's for you, haddayr )

Red-haired barbie in mini-kilt and tam-o-shanter, wielding bagpipe.

And, um. Amazonia Barbie:

Dark-haired, but white, barbie in a couple of little bandeau things, with tattoos painted on.