"I'm basically a live mannequin," he said. "I basically need to be your standard size 40 chest, size 32 waist." And it helps to have perfect posture and ideal proportions. Prata is tailor-made for ...

People in the design world also sometimes use “mannequin” to refer to dress forms — headless, armless tailors’ dummies used for fashion design. Manikins, to some minds, are different ...

These mannequins are important because they are ... Companies typically used live models to make and tailor their clothes, and some still do. Gribbin says color may be the No. 1 reason shoppers ...

The company teamed up with researchers at several universities to build robot mannequins that can adjust their proportions to match just about any set of human measurements. To set up the fitting ...

Shopping for a tailor in Hoi An can be an overwhelming ... We understand each other. We glide past a mannequin draped in dreamy blooms of organza cut along sweeping architectural hemlines.