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Fitting Essentials: Customize Your Dress Form

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Personalize any dress form to your measurements with acclaimed sewing instructor Judy Jackson. Start with Judy’s tips for selecting a dress form and working with a fitting partner to record all the measurements you need. Then create or adjust a dress form cover to ensure you end up with a perfect body double. Learn how to pad a studio or adjustable dress form to fill out your custom cover and replicate your body. See how to carve a foam dress form to personalize the shape before you add batting for a smooth result beneath the cover. Finish your custom dress form with a fit check and markings for design lines. Use accessible materials and simple sewing to create a body-double dress form that opens the door to your best-fitting garments!

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Choosing a Dress Form
  • Measuring & Evaluating Shape
  • The Dress Form Cover
  • Fitting the Cover
  • Creating Shape
  • Customizing a Foam Form
  • The Final Fit

Taught by

Judy Jackson

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