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- From: charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
- Subject: Re: advice: dressmaker's dummy
- Message-ID: <Nov.19.18.14.21.1992.25674@net.bio.net>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:14:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.002808.26482@informix.com> <carolyn.721423779@bucket>
- Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology
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- In article <carolyn.721423779@bucket> carolyn@bucket.rain.com (Carolyn Peterson) writes:
- >
- >A dress form would not be useful for me. Patterns are designed to
- >fit a body shaped like a dress form.
-
- Maybe I'm shaped like my dress form. I've found mine to be very useful.
- I bought it secondhand for $60 or $70; it's one of the Dritz models that
- you see in fabric stores for $135.
-
- I could never figure out why my dresses fit fine in front but loosely
- in back until I put one on the dress form. The back waist length is
- simply too long, and on the dress form, I can see it. I'd need eyes
- in the back of my head to see it in the mirror. :-)
-
- I use it also to gauge how a dress is coming along. I design most
- of my own square dance dresses, so I can slip a petticoat on the dress
- form, arrange the dress over that, and see if I need to modify the
- design or what.
-
- Charleen
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