I recently discovered the blog
The Polka Dot Closet and have added it to the Blog List on the right side of my blog. I also just added a button on the right side because I am going to participate in her first Dress Form Party beginning on February 7th! Well, as you probably know, I have a bunch of dress forms (four to be exact. I recently sold one) and constantly use them in my booth at Merchant Square as well as in my home.
So join me in as I take you from my home to my antique booth. I have pics of the dress forms in various states of "dress"! Here is my absolute favorite dress form. She resides in my bedroom. She has the steel skirt at the bottom and is on a stand with wheels. A great buy from a good, good friend who is also an antiques dealer.
She is dressed in two vintage petticoats topped by a more recent lacy skirt with a vintage voile party apron. On top she has a lovely vintage collar, a new scarf, an old rose corsage, several new necklaces, pearls and is topped with a crown. I love this dress form and she is a keeper!
Next up are two more dress forms that I use regularly in my booth at Merchants Square. I continually dress and redress them depending on what clothing I either create or find. I love vintage clothes! But they are getting hard to find.
The dress form on the left sports a square dance petticoat, pretty gray silk scarf, a corset I embellished and lots of pearls -- a favorite of mine! The dress form on the left is wearing a black slip dress I made by embellishing a black slip with vintage lace and fabric roses.
Here's a close up of the altered corset over a very pretty Scaparelli slip I found. This was taken in my studio where I was working up the display for my booth.
Here's a close up of the altered slip dress and the necklace I embellished.
Last is the torso dress form where I try corsets as I pick out embellishments for them before selling them. She also goes into my booth from time to time for displays.
I hope you enjoyed seeing my dress forms and all their decorations! Please feel free to click on the pictures to enlarge them for viewing (I think you can still do that??!!). Thanks for visiting my blog today!
