I’m with dummy

Posted on April 26, 2006 by mariko

Melissa and I have been working on our duct tape dress forms for the last couple of weekends. I finally finished mine today!

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It’s not perfect, but I think it will be useful, and it seems to have the correct measurements. It’s kind of hard to tell the back from the front, since I don’t really have the frontal protrusions that most women have!
Here’s the back side:
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Ha ha ha, it’s just a barrel of fun over here!

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20 Responses to I’m with dummy

  1. carolyn says:
    April 26, 2006 at 19:47

    the back photo is hilarious, DH. it’s like it’s shadowing you! what a ripper! (a new one clare sent me yesterday!)

  2. Oiyi says:
    April 26, 2006 at 20:02

    I love your pink duct tape dress form. So creative!

  3. Silvia says:
    April 26, 2006 at 20:20

    Oh how funny are thos pix! I adore your pink dressform with smallish boobages. Fab…

  4. molly! says:
    April 26, 2006 at 22:15

    That dress form is great! I have been coveting my own dress form since getting addicted to Project Runway and deciding that I want to design all of my own clothes. I’ll have to make a duct tape form one of these days!

  5. stinkerbell says:
    April 26, 2006 at 23:57

    the photos are hysterical, but I hope it gets much use.
    ps nice touch on teh pink ductape- who knew 🙂

  6. weirdbunny says:
    April 27, 2006 at 04:10

    What fun, you crazy girls!

  7. Kay says:
    April 27, 2006 at 06:47

    I’m laughing WITH you, not AT you; loving the pink. Coveting a dress form except I couldn’t stand to really SEE my form. I prefer to have a positive self image! xox Kay

  8. Stacey says:
    April 27, 2006 at 07:14

    Very cute – I, also, sadly lack what makes a front a front, and not a back…(ps – love the cardigan!)

  9. Gina says:
    April 27, 2006 at 08:49

    You are two kooky chicks!

  10. Peggy says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:44

    Okay, which one of you is Lucy and which one Ethel?

  11. gaile says:
    April 27, 2006 at 13:51

    how did you do that without suffocating!? I once tried to do this and we got halfway through the duct tape bit and I thought I was going to lose it – being all confined like that i could hardly breathe. what did you stuff it with? Is it on a stand? do tell us more!

  12. melissa says:
    April 27, 2006 at 14:27

    That looks great! Maybe I’ll be motivated to actually finish mine now.

  13. amy k. says:
    April 27, 2006 at 15:29

    um-wow. I mean wow! that is amazing. and pink. did you actually use pink duct tape?? it’s like art. no, it is art!! call it art, I say.

  14. Julia says:
    April 27, 2006 at 20:46

    Haha! I love the pink duct tape! Your rock!

  15. Julia says:
    April 27, 2006 at 20:47

    Oops, I meat “you” rock…

  16. AmyB says:
    April 28, 2006 at 18:30

    Nice dress form – how do you make one? For you Bay Area peeps, just noticed today that dress forms are on sale at April Cornell goin-out-of-biz sale on 4th St. in Berkeley. Child sizes, too. Sale over Monday. Didn’t notice any particular “frontal protrusion” sizes, though.

  17. Rose says:
    April 28, 2006 at 23:16

    Wow!!! I’ve wanted to make one of these for a long time. They are so cool. I got the instructions and have enlisted the DH to help, but he thinks I’m crazy.

  18. Rachael says:
    April 30, 2006 at 12:47

    Hot, hot. I want one. Maybe then I wouldn’t be surprised every time I try a sweater on for the first time….

  19. Laura says:
    May 2, 2006 at 09:55

    Very very cool. Now I need to skip up to the next post and see if you told where to find the instructions to make one! Is it possible to make custom frontal protrusions?!? heh

  20. Barb says:
    May 3, 2006 at 13:51

    I remember seeing how to make one those duct tape forms in I think Threads, and it’s fun to see how yours turned out.

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