Display Mannequin for Shops and Store Windows
You see them in shopping malls. You see them in haberdasheries decked out in the finest suits. You see them staring out at you from jewelry shops, wearing all manner of finery. They wear the latest from the top fashion houses like Dior or Versace, Armani or Chanel. You can also sometimes spot them in […]
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Collecting Decorative Mannequins and Dummies
We are most familiar with mannequins as tools for selling products, but they have always been used for other purposes. Look in a large art supply and crafts store, and you’ll probably find artists’ dummies about a foot high and articulated mannequins which are used to help artists correctly model the human form in pencil, […]
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Male and Female Shop Display Mannequins
Shop mannequins are a familiar sight to most people. Whereas a dress mannequin’s role is to wear clothing as a display mannequin, lay figure or dress form to help the clothes maker, and a jewelry mannequin performs either as a display for rings, pendants, brooches and other finery or is just a stylized hanger for […]
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Old and New Wire Dress Mannequins
The mannequin has been an art form and a business tool handed down through history. Back in history, people didn’t have the high-tech materials we have today, so things like fiberglass mannequins or adjustable mannequins were out of the question. One of the present-day mannequin’s predecessors, the dress form or lay figure, served as a […]
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Cynthia and the History of the Female Mannequin
In New York in the 1930s, a woman named Cynthia began to appear in famous places such as the Stork Club and at opera houses. Sitting motionless with a cigarette in one hand, she became famous despite never uttering a word or even moving the least bit from her pose.
Going Gaga over the Gaba Girls
Cynthia […]
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Dress Mannequins for Tailors and Dressmakers
mannequins act in many roles in real life and fiction. Heavily-instrumented versions stand in for real people for tests that the latter would find fatal or at least a heavy burden to the insurance underwriter - think crash test dummies, the silent populace of towns built just so scientists could study them being destroyed in […]
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Head Mannequins for Hair Styling and Design
Everyone knows what a Barbie doll looks like - well, maybe everyone except a Berber living in the arid lands of North Africa, but that’s another matter. Little girls play with them, dressing them in fashionable clothing, acting out imaginary stories about Barbie’s relationship with Skipper, her other friends, and Ken. In turn, these dolls […]
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Adjustable Mannequins for Stores, Shops and Dressmakers
Probably one of the most well-known appearances of a mannequin in fiction occurs in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Empty House,” in which the famous literary master of detection Sherlock Holmes avoids getting a pistol-caliber bullet in his skull by diverting his enemy, crack shot Sebastian Moran, with a bust in wax, […]
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Jewelry Mannequin Arms, Heads and Bodies
It’s an axiom commonly encountered in marketing - a company’s image is everything. If one’s going to attempt to entice a customer to part with his or her hard-earned money, chances are the merchant will do much better if he or she seems to be reputable and honest. Just put yourself in the customer’s shoes. […]
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