Making Your Own Dress Form

I've been wanting a dress form since... forever. Couple things have stopped me. For one the price, even on major sale the cheapest i could find was $99 dollars, to much for me! The second issue is none of them were small enough for me :(


Then today i was looking up things on Steampunk Fashion (my new love) and found a video and some blog 'how to' posts on making your own dress form!


Thought i would share! Here is the video:

Also some helpful blog posts:

• makingitwell.blogspot.co.nz
• She goes in to a little more detail that i think was helpful.
• This blogger broke it down into 4 posts. This way of making a form looks way more involving and more pricey but i thought i would share in case someone wants to get really into it. Post 3 & 4 i think would be great for any form though, you should check it out.
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• This post shows a neat way to make a stand for your form out of PVC piping which is fairly cheap. I like the idea of putting wheels in the bottom and maybe making it able to twist back and forth for easy use. I would probably want to spray paint it to make it look even better :)
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• This post shows you how to make a pretty cover for your form to make it look professional. Me likey!

I'm thinking could you do something very similar using newspaper for the paper mache (like you would make a pinata?) probably would take longer and you might have to use more layers but i wonder if it would work... would be cheaper and since i am a couponer i always have tons of newspapers sitting around LOL Just a thought.

Might be more effective to just by the paper tape like they show, it's not very expensive and might hold up longer *shrugs*


I'm hoping i can talk my hubby into helping me make one of these, i'm so excited i don't know what to do with myself!!!!