I'm always on the look-out for vintage mannequins, and I see these these neat 1940's doll dress design mini-mannequins around occasionally, so I finally picked one up. A fun mailer box holds this 12 1/2" Latexture Products Inc. NYC lady, as well as a helpful pamphlet and assorted dress making material leftovers via the previous owner. Children probably had a blast creating their own doll fashions, not to mention learning a few things that likely proved rewarding in later life. This particular fashion mannequin was sold at Stix, Baer and Fuller department stores here in STL, a now defunct chain where my grandmother spent over half a century working until she retired.
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That's damn neat. I don't think I've seen one of these before. I kind of imagine I'd have said, well, isn't a doll-sized mannequin just... a doll? before today. But looking at this, no, that's clearly a wee mannequin. I love it.
Make paper clothes for it!
She looks like Lucile Ball in her late teens or early twenties. nice find.
You need a banana in there to show the size
JMR777 beat me to it -- she really reminds me of Lucy.
While I have never made clothes, I know people who have and it's not easy. Fitting a 3D shape is complex, and I don't know how well children did but it definitely takes a lot of skill!
Neat find! Never see anything like this.
I mean, aside from having red hair, I’m not really seeing Lucille Ball, that face is way more Eve Arden
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