dress form

noun

an adjustable dummy used in dressmaking that can be made to conform to a person's figure

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"Yes, indeed, we could have Sallie's dress form," she said cordially.

She pinned them to the dress form so as to show the relationship of each piece to the figure.

She ran out of the room, coming back in a moment with a life-size dress-form in her arms, which she set down.

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