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This duct tape dress form was made after my friend had two babies close together in age. I wanted to make a form for her that was both inexpensive and easily altered so I could take it in as she got smaller, although this instructable could be used to add an inch or two to the dress form as well.
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For this project, you will need the following:
-Duct tape: I used just over one roll for my friend, who is pretty tiny. You should probably have at least two or three rolls on hand.
-Shirt or plastic garbage bag (person sized): Whichever of these you use, it should be as long as you want your dress form to be tall
-Clothes hanger
-Newspaper: lots for stuffing. I used almost two whole newspapers from Thanksgiving, so they were even fuller than usual.
-Permanent marker/pen that can write on duct tape
-Scissors
-A friend
-Sewing pins
-Tape measure
-Duct tape: I used just over one roll for my friend, who is pretty tiny. You should probably have at least two or three rolls on hand.
-Shirt or plastic garbage bag (person sized): Whichever of these you use, it should be as long as you want your dress form to be tall
-Clothes hanger
-Newspaper: lots for stuffing. I used almost two whole newspapers from Thanksgiving, so they were even fuller than usual.
-Permanent marker/pen that can write on duct tape
-Scissors
-A friend
-Sewing pins
-Tape measure
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Where the trashbag ripped or did not cover, we put sheets of plastic cling wrap, it worked very well.
Instead of newspaper, we stuffed the dress form with our huge collection of recyclable plastic grocery bags (like you get at Walmart, Target, etc.), which worked nicely, since we had no newspaper on hand. If you're going to do it this way, though, make sure you have at least a large trashbag full of the bags first.
I made one of these after buying an online pattern but since my daughter would not be a part of the action, I was unable to pull the duct tape really tight around my body. What I ended up with was a ginormous torso of me! (I was scared).
If you keep your duct tape REALLY tight on your model's body (unable to breathe tight), you can get a pretty accurate and unique measure of someone you will be sewing for! Or, your alteration instructions are really good too.
Way to go for all the seamstresses in the world!!!!
It's good, but what's it like to wear for an evening?
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