Well, this was actually more for mundane stuff than for costuming - I don't do any corseted eras (yet), though I am pondering that same solution to make her me-in-a-gothic-gown shaped (which, like regency, moves things even higher). (Not to make more undergowns, but to have a better base for draping overgowns for myself...)
Guenièvre On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:08 PM, cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com <cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Frankly, what a lot of costumers do is just lop the boobs > off, corset the thing, and then pad to where your boobs would be. Those > spongy boobs just don't move the way real boobs do. I can't get my > Regency undergarments on my dummy, because they do a massive lift of my > boobs (so that I can get a better Regency silhouette; I have the > opposite problem that you have). > > > Claudine > > > >>________________________________ >>From: Guenievre de Monmarche <guenie...@erminespot.com> >>To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> >>Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:57 AM >>Subject: Re: [h-cost] Uniquely you replacement cover >> >>Has anyone tried to move the bustline (or maybe take the shoulders >>down?) on their UY dressform? I have a VERY short upper chest, and the >>boobs on mine are about the right *size*, but also about 2 inches >>lower than they should be. I've been pondering "bustlift" surgery on >>it, and whether it would be easier to cut them off and move them up, >>or something else... >> >>Guenièvre >> >> >> >>On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Cin <cinbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks all for your helpful hints & vendor reviews. I'm on it! >>> --cin >>> Cynthia Barnes >>> cinbar...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Cin <cinbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Ladies & gents, >>>> I'm in the market for a new cover for a recent adopted Uniquely You >>>> dressmakers dummy. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> h-costume mailing list >>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>h-costume mailing list >>h-costume@mail.indra.com >>http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
