Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)
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the display of the purpose, because of their shapes and sizes. Namely many period dresses are smaller than the smallest size today. In the field of ladies dresses wearing of corsets significantly changed the body-proportions. The form of the corsets determined the typical silhouette of a given period. It can be said, the sizes were individual according to each costume. Therefore any display dummy must be adjusted to the period costume in each case. For this purpose a wide range of different support systems and the most various kinds of materials are usually employed like invisible padding, for example of paper, felt, shoulder- pads, wet buckram applied over a plastic covered dressmaker’s dummy etc. The question of stability does not cause a problem when a figure wears a long dress. These can be presented securely on half-bodies mounted upon a stands. If the foot is to be seen, an iron spike is mounted into the hell of the dummy, fixed to a stable sole. In this case shoes can be put on in no other way, but by piercing them through where the spike requires. Evidently, in this case shoes from the collection can not be used. For providing the stability to men’s display dummies, several methods are employed: the dummy is fastened to suitable points of the showcase, it will be fixed at its waist to a rod placed behind it, dummies prepared with a foot will be screwed to the floor by a strap leading across the foot. 6. Full figure male mannequin 7. A mannequin dressed up in Hungarian gala dress from around 1860 154
