dress form metal 50s/60s Dritz "My Double" Dress Form With Stand - Adjustable, Metal

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This is an original Dritz "My Double" adjustable metal dress form from the 1950s or early 1960s. It is made of flexible metal, with snaps up the front and back, allowing it to split into two parts.

To make it your double, put on a tank or fitted T-shirt or workout clothes, then slide each side on. With the help of a (good) friend and perhaps an adult beverage, you manipulate the wire to conform it to your exact shape. It's actually a lot of fun, and unless you change size or shape dramatically, you'll only have to do this process once.

When you're satisfied that it's fully conformed to you, take it off, snap it back together front and back, then place it on its metal stand (which you can adjust to your height). Then, you place the stabilizing bars criss-cross on the interior to keep its (your) shape. It's not difficult, it just takes a little time (and a lot of laughter, and a friend you don't mind pressing on your body). 

This dress form is in excellent condition, with all necessary parts. I got rid of the original box and creepy cheesecloth cover, because both were kind of disgusting. I am providing a brand new, never used, modern cover. 

As for the original instructions, I have them here, somewhere. You have my word that when I eventually find the "safe place" where I stashed them, I will send them to you (free of charge, of course). In the meantime, you don't actually need them, because full instructions for this exact dress form are readily available free online from several different bloggers, and even better, there are helpful YouTube how-to videos to guide you through the process of making it "your double," if my brief explanation above proves insufficient. It's really not complicated.

Keep in mind that the photos show the dress form molded to my shape (before I realized that sewing is not my favorite hobby). I will disassemble it to ship. 

--> As for size, online information says it will accommodate a 30"-40" bust. I would suggest that this dress form will work for those who wear (modern) sizes extra-small, small, or medium. For reference, I measure b35.5", w26.5", h36" and there was plenty of give in the structure to go smaller or larger. <--

☞ Our items are not newly manufactured "vintage style" pieces. They are true vintage, at least 30 years old. Please read condition report provided above. ☜

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