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<< I've considered making a second sloper of me in a Victorian corset, just
to try and see. The reason I haven't done so already is (1) I've lost weight
and the form doesn't fit me at all anymore. (Sigh. It's a good thing, but
sad when your garb don't fit no more). And (2) that the dress form's bust is
so firm that I'm not convinced that I can move it into the proper corseted
location. However, this is what I'd recommend trying in order to represent
your different levels of squish :-). Do note, that if you leave one sloper
on the dress form, after awhile the padding will squash into that shape, and
won't "rebound" well. >>
You might want to try what I wound up having to do to fix mine (the bust was
about 4 inches too low, and it was just plain too big to compress in various
spots): I split the foam thing in two, along the plane where the two halves
had been glued together. Then I carved out a bit of the foam from the
inside, at the waist and hips, and across the upper bust (so that I could
pre-compress the foam there) and glued the two halves back together. Worked
like a charm, except that afterwards I had to trim 4 inches off the bottom
of the back half so both would be the same height!
-E House
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