Cats Costumery | The Great Dressform Debacle aka how (not) to pick a dressform @CatsCostumery | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!

I got a new dressform in the sewing room and I thought it might be useful for me to share my dressform experience. I first started off with an Adjustform Lady Valet in Size S, then I made a Bootstrap Patterns dressform, and now I have a vintage Stockmann dressform. They're all different. I only recently discovered padding, which I think gives you so much more flexibility with dressforms, you can use it on all kinds as long as the starting point is smaller than the finished measurement you're trying to achieve. So in the video, I talk you through the advantages and disadvantages of an adjustable dressform, a self-made Bootstrap Patterns dressform, and I try my hand at padding up the vintage dressform.

I got my dressform cover from Vintage Style Mannequins (vintagestylemannequins.co.uk/) and the vintage Stockman is from Etsy.

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