Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)
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40 cm e ither the authentic faces of such personalities had to be modelled or a totally neutral face was required where the lines of the eyes, mouth and nose were only indicated, emphasizing in this way that the head with the whole figure was no more than a necessary medium of display. Naturally we chose the latter solution. Natural coloured cotton material was used for covering the heads with which the entire body was coated. The covering layer made the features still less sharp and proved to be very paractical because it enabled us to simply sew the hair-dress to the head. We did not possess to every costume a head-dress which would ^ appropriately fit to the period. We felt 21 cm that a bold woman would create 8. Metal structure, which stabilises a Particularly bizarre effect even in a the mannequins bonnet. So we created to each mannequin a head-dress identical in colour with the coating fabric of the body but characteristic to the given period in style. On the display mannequins seen in the costume exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo or in other places we could find head-dresses made of tulle, ribbons, paper, etc. In this case it was decided to make the stylised headdresses from plaited silk fabric identical in tone with the body-coating material. 9-10. Stylised hairdos from silk georgette 156
