Elgin library’s ‘Barbie Superstar’ exhibit visits the iconic doll’s most extravagant era

Elgin library’s ‘Barbie Superstar’ exhibit visits the iconic doll’s most extravagant era

Barbie dolls may have changed dramatically over the decades but there’s little doubt they were at their most extravagent 40 to 50 years ago, an era being revisited at Gail Borden Public Library’s new Barbie Superstar exhibit. “The free-to-attend exhibit captures the glamor, vibrancy, big hair and eye-catching fashion that mirrored the glitz and sparkle of the late 1970s through the mid-1980s,” library spokeswoman Natalie Kiburg said. “Barbie dol…