Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Half-Scale Dress Forms



Did you know about the dress form company PGM-Pro? Currently I have purchased several of their half-scale female dress forms to use in my "Draping I" classes. The dress forms are relatively inexpensive (approximately $80-100.00) and well made.

I have been using the half-scale dress forms in my classes for about a year now, and to my surprise, the students feel much less intimidated when they set out to conquer a period gown.

This project was created by Starr Slocum, second year MFA student at UC/CCM.

1 comment:

pufallcostumes said...

Hi Gina,

PGM also has a great sponsorship program for full sized dress forms. Each educational institution is eligible for two free dress forms (last years model). You just need to pick up the shipping costs.

Here is the link:

http://www.pgmdressform.com/info.php?id=22

Best,
Darrin J. Pufall
Reed College, Portland OR