Hi Beth,
I made the sloper of unbleached cotton.
You are right that you can stuff it two hard, so that it gets two thick, but
i find that this special teddy bear stuffing, is nice to form with, and i
have obtained a shape very like my own.
I just placed it on top of the cut away bottom of my supermand model, and it
rests on it. I intend to glue it to the top of the bottom.
I didnt make any legs to the model, that would be two difficult to me to
make, but i do intend in near future, to add a right arm to it. Its
potential to me, that i can see how the back of my jackets and waistcoats
are, and that is the major factor.
I have seen at the companys who sells dress forms, that you can buy seperate
stands. Why dont you do this? And then use a broom stick to the stand? Let
the end of the stick rest on the neck top. Perhaps stuff in a heavy
cardboard here, to keep it have the shape?
I really intend to make a female sloper two, to the corsets i make. I hate
the breast part sitting two low, and it wont moove :-)
It was years and years since i made a sloper model last, but fortunately i
have a folder with recipies how to construkt these, from my designschool. It
really wasnt difficult to make, it kind of is in my brain already.
Bjarne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beth Schoenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] sloper form
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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