I'll have to agree with Cin, here. I love my foam dummy, although
she's been relegated to storage for some time now.
Part of that MAY have been my memories of the hysterical laughter when
my husband and I unboxed her. We spent about an hour admiring her
excessive and, well PERKY boobage. He's not even a costumer but boy
did we have fun about her! She's a pleasant thought on a dark day :)
Corset her and she's fine for "whatever" era. Sure fitting is a pain,
but isn't it always?
== Marjorie Wilser
=:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:=
"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." --MW
http://3toad.blogspot.com/
On May 28, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Cin wrote:
For all the whining about the foam dummies, I'd just like to make
clear that they are heads & shoulders <grin> bettter than any other
option. It's not hard to bob the exaggerated bits. It took only
minutes to change excess boobage into protrusive shoulderblades.
I cant stick pins in my plaster cast dummy. He was however, free, so
I keep him. Foam squeezes just a little more to reshape just a smidge
when you want to try a new style of corsetry. Plaster, paper tape
dummies deform the underlying body you're trying to model. Dial-a
dummies are just plain inadequate for most people.
Really, there's no other sensible option: get a foam dummy. Pad her
out with ace bandages, give her a boob-lift with a stocking full of
birdseed, buy several covers and do one each for your corseted,
bullet-bra & natural shapes,. Sew her an arm for a sleeve form & pin
it to the cover when you need it. They last for years!
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
Posted by: "foureverfaire" foureverfa...@yahoo.com foureverfaire
Thu May 27, 2010 12:38 pm (PDT)
Though i don't have a dress form myself, i have frirends that do and
i've heard others talk about having the same challenge of having to
cut down parts of the Uniquely You Dress forms.
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