Hi, Bjarne,
You always amaze me!! Making one of these is such a big project, yet
you mention it so matter-of-factly, as if it was a good idea, but a bit
of an after-thought!!
What did you use for the outer surface of the dress form? Unbleached
cotton (muslin or calico)? Linen? Something heavier? Not fabric at
all?
A group of friends and I have been talking about making "duct-tape
doubles," using duct tape, or wide house-painter's masking tape, or
possibly fabric medical tape (expensive!) --- over plastic garbage bags
or thin dry-cleaner's bags. We've been debating using foam-rubber for
the stuffing, or teddy-bear stuffing, or spray-in building-insulation
foam (this last is not squishable, but it is "carve-able"). The
expected problem with using fabric fitted to shape is that the fabric
"body" will be distorted out of the correct shape, as it is forcibly
stuffed, for the person it's supposed to fit. How did you achieve
your fit?
One thing we have discovered is that an old microphone stand is *very*
heavy, and might be an ideal base for a dress form, especially for our
large and heavy historic dresses.
I'm also curious: did you put whole or partial legs on your form?
Beth S
--- in clear and frosty Kambah, in Canberra, the big-city-small-town
capital of Australia
On 03/06/2006, at 9:29 PM, Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
Hi,
My friends at Live Journal, gave me the idea to make myself a sloper
form.
I had recently ordered a mans dress form, but when it arrived, i found
out it was much, much two big for me, it was a superman.
So some of my friends suggested me to make myself a sloper model, pad
the armholes, and neck, and stuff it with teddybear stuffing.
I did yesterday, and i had to buy 6 large bags of stuffing, to fill
out my sloper.
The stand from the Superman i used for my own sloper model, and now i
have my own uniquely you.
Boy i am so happy that i made it, i have tryed on my suits on it, and
i actually found out many things i could have done better with the
cut.
Now i am going to make myself a lot of nice outfits.
Also for period corsets, the sloper model is a brilliant idea, because
its squishable.
Bjarne
Leif og Bjarne Drews
www.my-drewscostumes.dk
http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/
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