How to Make a Dress Form by Yourself
- 1). Dress the model for your dress form in a long, turtle-neck shirt and comfortable pants. The shirt should reach to the model's mid-thigh and be disposable, as you will be cutting it later.
- 2). Begin wrapping duct tape around the bottom of the shirt, tearing it into 12-inch sections for easier application.
- 3). Continue covering the model's hips and torso in duct tape, wrapping it tightly to capture the form but not so tightly that it constricts the model's breathing.
- 4). Apply duct tape to the bottom of the neck, the shoulders and slightly down the biceps.
- 5). Apply two more layers of duct tape to the model's upper thighs, hips, torso, shoulders and neck. Use a different color for each layer to make it easy to tell which layer is which.
- 6). Carefully cut the duct tape and shirt up the back to remove it from your model.
- 7). Seal the cut with more duct tape. Seal the arm stumps at the shoulders as well.
- 8). Trace the bottom of the form onto a piece of 1/2-inch plywood. Cut out this plywood with a jigsaw, then staple the duct tape form onto it. It will be the base of the dress form.
- 9). Stuff the dress form with cotton batting as tightly as you can without distorting the form.
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Seal the neck hole with duct tape. - 11
Screw a 1-inch pipe flange to the bottom of the plywood base with 3/4-inch wood screws. - 12
Cut a 1-foot square of 1/2-inch plywood. - 13
Screw another 1-inch flange to the center of the square with 3/4-inch wood screws. - 14
Screw a 36-inch long, 1-inch diameter double-threaded pipe into the stand. Screw the other end into the dress form.
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