Mannequin history

In creating and showing fashion collections, plays a special role dummy and fashion models, this short article will tell about them.

When the mannequins were born? It seems that they have been, are and will be for a long time. This is most likely true. Mannequins have been around for a long time.

Even in Ancient Rome, little people were made - little images of 8 - 25 cm in size from clay in order to demonstrate samples of clothes on them. But something similar to what we have now appeared in 1573. The doll was made of clay and wood by the Italian monk San Marco and put on shreds as clothing. Gradually, such dolls - men began to be made in France and the Netherlands, and even from wax. The only bad thing is that the wax melted in the sun in the summer. These dolls began to be used in tailoring and made them from wood or papier-mâché. They approached this especially seriously already in the eighteenth century - men began to be made in the life-size of a human body. In 1770 the first sewing company was founded in Paris.

And finally, Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), the Englishman who conquered Paris. Paris - where the ideas of fashion creators flourished and were picked up all over the world. It is said that it was Worth who first used the "mannequin" (from the Flemish maeneken - little man) in one of the displays of his creations. And then his wife played the role of a fashion model with great success.
By the way, Poiret's wife also played the same role. Here they are, the first fashion models.
Thus, it became clear to everyone how necessary mannequins are for high tailoring.

Make a mannequin now, on the one hand, with all the achievements of science and technology and with modern technologies, it is quite simple. On the other hand, it is a complex and expensive process. The cost of mannequins is measured from $ 50 to several thousand, and if it is custom-made, it comes up to $ 150 thousand. What materials are used to make a mannequin? These are wood, fiberglass, polyurethane, polystyrene, metal, cardboard, polystyrene. The main thing is that the product is of high quality, made of safe material, easy to use and provides a sufficient service life.

If we talk about the service life, then the manufacturers give a guarantee mainly for only one year. The fact is that mannequins, especially those on display windows, are often changed depending on the season and, of course, fashion, so the connecting parts loosen, break, paint cracks. You can use repairs, but still, their service life remains short-lived.

One of the most best mannequins those that are made on hinges are considered - they have both arms and legs that can be bent and unbent, i.e. both bend and half-bend are performed - the hinges imitate the joints of a person.

Everyone knows that mannequins are necessary not only in tailoring. With what interest we look at the shop windows, and how, it turns out, it is well and stylishly dressed mannequins that make us turn 90 degrees in order to go in and buy the thing that is in the window. Sales are believed to quadruple thanks to the mannequins.

Mannequins, mannequins, and the fashion models? Talk about them ahead. So, as the manufacture of mannequins is difficult, so is labor fashion models turns out to be not an easy task.