Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?

[Debloughcostumes]

One is wearing a corset / waist cincher in a fairly odd fabric that I found  
and quite liked (sort of green camo pattern with flocked leaves).
 
One is wearing the corset that should ahve gone under my wedding dress,  (but 
I threw a tantrum over the design and started the bodice from  scratch...).
 
One (male) is wearing one of a pair of early roughly  1901 British Navy 
captain's uniforms that we rescued from a theatrical  costumers that was 
closing in 
Leeds.  
They'd been adapted for either quick change or on-stage ripping, and had  
been split up the back and velcro added.  They'd also been astonishingly  badly 
repaired at some stage.
I'm putting them back to what they should be like, (removing the bad repair  
work generally) and conserving where it's needed (re-inforcing the odd rip 
using  conservation fabric, and pulling out the horrific nylon linins,  etc).
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