Betsy, if you could get the picture scanned I'd love to see it! The catalog I looked at is not the spring issue, but has the same Kirsten layout picture that would have been in that catalog. I don't know why the pins would show up in one version of the picture but not in another - weird! The only thing I can think of is that maybe the pins were put in to adjust the cuffs and hold them in place for the picture. I'm pretty sure the pattern of Kirsten's Meet dress changed around the time of the Mattel takeover, because my 1997 catalog still has the old picture, while my 1998 catalog has the new one.