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Platform for a Dress Form

chsewer | Posted in Equipment and Supplies on

I am looking for a source from which I can purchase a platform for a dress form I have.  I would like to have a substantial base on which to place the foam dress form.

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  1. sewfar | | #1

    I do not have a dress form so I do not know how practical my suggestion is but I have thought that if I did I might consider mounting it on a mechanic's stool that has adjustable height and rotates.  It must have a stop or my hubbywould be forever dizzy !

  2. decoratrice | | #2

    Get thee to the nearest thrift shop and buy a floor lamp.  Ideally, one of those 90's torchieres --they are easy to work with.  All of them have a heavy cast iron base under the decorative cover.  Now you take out the electrical stuff and throw it away, and call someone who likes to solve mechanical problems--maybe yourself?  My duct tape form has a plywood bottom, and I found a pipe flange at Lowe's that would slip over the stem of the lamp.  I screwed the flange to the plywood, held the form up to myself, with the lamp alongside, to get the height.  You will need a friend to mark the lamp stem for you.  Cut it with a hacksaw, slip it into the flange, done.  I placed my form on a flat TV turntable and adjusted for the added height.  Theoretically, the form should be able to rotate at the flange-pipe junction, if the flange is just the right fit and is long enough to give a really stable junction.  Mine didn't, so I use the turntable.  It leans ever so slightly because the junction isn't perfect, but for my purposes, it works fine.  Maybe someone out there has a better way, but for a few bucks, you can't beat a floor lamp for a base.  Hope this helps.

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