Dress form

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dress form

n
(Knitting & Sewing) an adjustable dummy used in dressmaking that can be made to conform to a person's figure
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Dress form

A light wire (usually) frame shaped like a woman’s torso that could be used to help properly match the different pieces of a dress as they were sewn together.
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Translations

dress form

n → Schneiderpuppe f
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