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Hand made dress form

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Ah....the beauty of the mind. So.... The other day I was working on altering a dress from a single one piece item to a skirt and top. It turned out really cute. I wore it to church on sunday . As I was working on it I had to keep trying it on, walk in front of a mirror and try to figure out what needed to be done with it while it was on my body. No easy task. I mentioned to my husband that it would be so cool if I had one of those dress forms, you know, kinda like a headless body that you can pin into. Bruce decided that would be a great thing for me to have and proceeded to look online and see what was available. After some frustrating moments of searching, we found them, and they were out of our price range, of course. So..... I asked him to google "make your own dress form" and wahlah .....duct tape. Ok , so I didn't actually take a picture of my husbands handy work (my upper half wrapped in duct tape) but I have to admit, it turned out rather well. Basically, you put ...