"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 ...

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 ...

It’s the same process tailors have used for decades–only ... He’d park on the street and place a mannequin dressed in a blazer, white shirt, and bow tie onto the roof of the vehicle.

She also searched online for dress forms, a foam mannequin tailors use to make patterns and measurements for garments, but couldn't find any that matched her body shape. "They're all very much ...