Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Caption from LIFE. Barbie's $136 wardrobe from nurse to nightclubber. Berman is a senior editor at TIME. In honor of Barbie’s fifth birthday in 1963, LIFE ...

Whenever I needed a Barbie “club outfit,” I’d cut up some electric tape from my dad’s toolbox and fashion it into a LBD. Little did I know that literally everyone was doing some form of this technique ...