It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night, You might even be
planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason,
costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's
dummy wearing today?
I'm storing a couple of hats on her right now, including my basic Harry
Potter's World hat. Other than that she's just wearing a t-shirt with the
bones of the human torso and hips printed on it. It belongs to her
actually. I used to take her to schools to put costumes on, for
historical talks, and the little kids would giggle when the clothes came
off. But they don't giggle when they see bones underneath. (It ain't no
sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.)
I forgot to mention that mine has a head I made out of a cut-down Styrofoam
wig head. I added a hollow neck of poster board, that fits over her
original neck, then I paper mache-ed over the whole head/neck thing. I can
take her head off so I can put clothes on her body, then I can replace it
so I can try out the head-wear with the clothes.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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