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Post by cosmoblue on Jan 1, 2008 15:33:20 GMT -5
I got my Uniquely you form today at the Fabric Depot 50% off sale and now I can just buy a second cover for it to shape like my body in the stays for fitting gowns. Yay! My Pro form isn't really good for custom fitting myself due to my curvyness.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Jan 1, 2008 19:32:29 GMT -5
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Post by momghoti on Sept 4, 2008 2:11:54 GMT -5
Congrats! I love mine, but I made the mistake of buying and fitting it when I weighed the least I have since college. I have since regained my stature:( (thanks in part to my daughter) and it now is several sizes too small. I think I will try wrapping the foam with batting and putting a new fitted cover on it, but I don't know if that will work.
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Post by Val on Sept 4, 2008 10:31:23 GMT -5
I think I will try wrapping the foam with batting and putting a new fitted cover on it, but I don't know if that will work. Give it a really good try. I had to sell mine because it was too big, but I was never able to manipulate it with a corset. So trying to fit a Regency or Victorian pattern on it was the pits. With building it up with foam, you can squish the foam into where you want it. |
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Post by momghoti on Oct 18, 2008 1:54:04 GMT -5
Really? I thought the whole appeal of the uniquely you was you *could* squash it into a corset--but I suppose that wouldn't work if the foam was too big.
I've messed around with it a bit, but *of course* it's not as easy as it sounds. I couldn't get a smooth line, and it was too full in some places while not enough in others. A friend suggested that I cover the batting with a t-shirt and then put the cover over that. We'll see....
I really need the u.y. because I'm short bust-to-shoulder and few forms can be adjusted in that area.
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Post by dawnluckham on Oct 18, 2008 9:43:31 GMT -5
A dress form that is too small is definitely superior to one that is too large! ;D I don’t have a Uniquely You Form, However, I do have several sizes of the adjustable Diana style forms and I have one professional solid form. Professional (theatre and fashion industry) designers use solid, non adjustable forms that they pad up to size. Personally, I use the Fabulous Fit system which is a series of shaped foam pads and two stretch knit covers that you learn to use separately to create the specific body shape of you or your client. This particular padding system used to be made by the Royal Dress Form company, but I don’t see a single mention of Royal Forms on the site now. Perhaps it’s a new company? Or perhaps they’ve renamed themselves? www.fabulousfit.com/ In addition to the foam Fabulous Fit pads, I also use quilt batting additional shoulder pads (which work really well to fill out full busts too) and sometimes layers of thick felt cut to shape and fiberfill. You can recreate almost every single body individuality by starting with a smaller dress form and then padding up. You can reposition the bust line (higher or lower), you can create sloped or hunched shoulders and scoliosis (curvature of the spine), you can make one hip higher than the other you can make any natural lumps and slopes and humps that you wish to make. I can even turn my female dress form into a man if I wish. I’ve made several additional dress form covers using a basic princess seam pattern with a centre back and centre front seam. I make them out of stretch velvet for “pretty” but also for the nice pin-able surface and the tight stretch that they provide. Those princess seams and the centre seams are definitely used as guidelines as I pad up and drape the dress forms. I’m usually able to get the velvet ends the right length (I need roughly 2 ½ meters) on the “ends” table for not too high a price at my local fabric store. This is from an old (circa 1910-20-ish) book, but it will give the basic idea of padding a form for an individual body: haabet.dk/TightLinings_andBoning/15.htmlAlso if you search “Padding a dress form” in Google you’ll come up with all sorts of helpful advice. I hope this helps! PS. These padded up forms take a corset beautifully! ;D And I still wish I had an Uniqely You form for myself and for my own body to just "keep" it my shape. ;D Like I have room for another dress form!  |
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Post by Val on Oct 18, 2008 10:24:28 GMT -5
I should have clarified which dressform I had and sold. It was the My Body Double(?) that is a hard surface and not squishable at all. It was too big, so padding wasn't an answer. I got my new Uniquely You a couple weeks ago. It's a couple inches smaller than me, and squishable. It has HUGE POINTY GIRLS. Scarey.  But I bought the "body suit" a little too small. So I'm going to have to fork out another $30 for the larger size before I can do anything with it. *Although* I may take this one apart and make a pattern, and make a larger one myself, thereby saving $30. I may have to give this one a slight mastectomy, as I've others have, to get it down a few cup sizes. But have no fear, that won't be attempted unless any amount of squishing doesn't work. And this one was cheaper, for $139 online, with free shipping. Much better than the $200 for the previous one. |
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Post by Anna on Oct 18, 2008 18:04:51 GMT -5
Momghoti - You can do that. I work at the theatre costume shop at school, and we do it all the time. You can pad with flannel cotton or fleece or batting, just wrap it around and pin or whip it on. You can also put bras or bustiers on, or (if it's squishy) wrap an ace bandage around to make it smaller in parts. There's a whole lot of adjusting you can do just like that. You don't even technically have to cover it with a knit top, but I suspect if you wanted it to stay the same for a long time, that would protect all the batting and whatnot.
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Post by tess on Oct 20, 2008 17:14:52 GMT -5
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Post by Val on Oct 21, 2008 10:15:56 GMT -5
"Torpedo boobs"!! Haha!! Thank you Tess. That gives me more idea sof how I can sculpt mine. I had to keep from laughing while reading it. I also can't imagine there's any woman out there that those boobs even come close to. I'm going to have to create an account with them to read more than the first page, but with 8 pages of comments, it will be worth the time. Now I don't feel so bad about mine, and that I screwed up getting the wrong size. It's making a nice hat and coat stand at the moment.  ~ |
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Post by cosmoblue on Oct 22, 2008 0:41:53 GMT -5
I am in the middle of fitting my form and I am feeling stressed about it. I cannot get it pinned correctly and the directions are confusing for me(a person who needs very detailed descriptions or illustrations/photos because I hate to do things wrong) I'll have to read all of the comments as well. I bought my form too big (I lost a lot of baby weight since January) and I am concerned about squishing.
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Post by cosmoblue on Nov 25, 2008 17:18:24 GMT -5
And this one was cheaper, for $139 online, with free shipping. Much better than the $200 for the previous one. Where did you get free shipping? I have lost so much weight since ordering my form that I cannot get my recently fit cover anywhere near zipping on my form so I have to buy a new form.  |
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Post by cosmoblue on Nov 25, 2008 18:10:26 GMT -5
Oh and I just called the company to ask what they recommend doing and they said based on my measurements I should buy a size petite and pad it up. A petite! I should probably be happy about that, but it is scary what having a baby and nursing a toddler until she is 2+ will do to a woman's body. A 2 1/2 inch difference in my bust 2" and only 1 1/2" in my hip crazy!
As a result, anyone wanna buy a size medium uniquely you dress form without a cover but unused?
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Post by Val on Nov 25, 2008 23:25:11 GMT -5
And this one was cheaper, for $139 online, with free shipping. Much better than the $200 for the previous one. Where did you get free shipping? I have lost so much weight since ordering my form that I cannot get my recently fit cover anywhere near zipping on my form so I have to buy a new form. I got it here. www.allbrands.com/products/abc1325.html My dress cover is too small for me. It's a Med, size 7. I need the Med, size 10. Their sizing is hard to figure out. I still haven't had time to give it a mastectomy to bring it down to my world. |
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Post by cosmoblue on Nov 26, 2008 13:13:47 GMT -5
I got it here. www.allbrands.com/products/abc1325.html My dress cover is too small for me. It's a Med, size 7. I need the Med, size 10. Their sizing is hard to figure out. I still haven't had time to give it a mastectomy to bring it down to my world. Boo they don't have free shipping right now. I think I am going to order from here www.sewvacdirect.com/uniquelyyoudressforms.htmlTheir sizing annoying. It is super annoying that they base it off of the bust measurement and not the widest measurement. I wish I had seen this website ( seamshistoric.com/?page_id=211 ) before I bought mine. Oh well I am just going to hope that the cover I fit to myself will fit on my new form so that I don't have to do it over again. It took me two days one with my reluctant hubby and one all by myself. |
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? ~ Jane Austen 
