Phyllis and I spent the day working on the first draft of our fitting shells for our Dress Form Doubles. Tomorrow we will do the next phase of the fit, but here the drafts are on two of my dress forms. Alas, I look nothing like my dress form these days. Reality bites, but I would rather face it head on. I guess.
Any resemblance to characters living or dead is somewhat coincidental...
How nice will it be to have a pinnable dress form that actually looks like me? That’s why I haven’t done a duct tape double. Well, that and the smell.
More later!
So, will you use your fitting shell as the model as opposed to the dress form? Or, how do you compensate for the differences between the two?
I have neither so I’m trying to understand what I should be doing to get decent fitting garments.
Thanks!
Excellent question, Nalani! We’re doing the dress form double from the article by Kenneth King in the July Issue of Threads Magazine.
Well, YAY! Hope this work results in a great likeness
I was going to ask if you were following the Kenneth King article from the recent Threads Magazine. I thought it was a really great article and I may give it a try one of these days. My dressform is pretty close, but it does need some work.
Hugs, Phylly (another Phyllis)
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Great minds think alike. I am completing part 2 of the my twin dress form.
I tried doing your method, but without a sewing buddy, never got the thing finished.
Last weekend my hubby and I made the plaster cast shell. I found it as easy as the duct tape method. This weekend I’ll fill the shell mold with foam urethane and pop the plaster off. Wish me luck!
Are you going to revisit the great coat sew a long?
I am desperate for a dress form which is exactly my shape and was considering doing a duct tape one. After reading your blog, I think I might try Kenneth King’s version, and got a subscription to Threads precisely for this. One question though which the article doesn’t not address: your base dress form has to be smaller in all dimensions than you are yourself as you are padding it out to your size. I have a AA size bust and all ready made dress forms are Bs I would suppose. That means they are all deeper front to back than I am, even though circumference wise, I would be a bit bigger (wider back). How would you suggest I cope with this?