So today I did some pretty good thrifting. After deciding yesterday that I needed a bread machine, low and behold I found one today; for $5....I know you are jealous. I also got a really pretty dress that I will probably wear next month when Skull graduates, Amazon Trail, Gizmos and Gadgets, Math Cover and Reader Rabbit. I also also got a dress form for $10 bucks...more on that in a second. Dude I had great luck today. We also donated clothes today (apparently $53 worth according to It's Deductible, which will save us $8 on our taxes next year whoooo) so I think thats why I had such good luck, you must make sacrifices to the thrifting gods to keep them happy.
This is the story of the dress form. I spotted the dress form at Goodwill, but there was no price! I finally track down an employee (there are always like 5 of them running around until I have a question or need a dressing room unlocked) and she gave me a look...she is not sure why I want this thing...but she finds out the price, they will give it to me for $9.99...I verify, you mean like ten bucks? She gives me a look, still unsure why I want it and says yes but you can't return it. I call Skull over, point out that even used a dress form usually runs at least $50 bucks and it would be helpful for all the sewing projects that I will...eventually...get around to doing. He agrees its totally worth it, but he also gives me a look of "I don't quite understand why you want this thing but OK".We put it up front, finish our shopping and check out, the cashier...also looks doubtful as to why I would want this thing, but I assure her I really do want it and we wrestle it into the car and go home.
So, at this point you are saying to yourself, It's just a dress form, why is everyone all WTF?? about it?? Well you see someone had altered this dress form and at the time of purchase THIS is what it looked like:
Why, yes, she is duct taped and heavily padded.
I also like to think that the chunk missing from her eyebrow shows off her devil may care attitude.
BFF's!!
I knew under all that she had a heart of gold, and Skull had a lot of fun trying to find it. I wanted to be the one who ripped her all apart but Skull no sooner had her in the door then he was undressing her...
I really do have to give the previous owner Kudos, I mean, she probably couldn't find a dress form in her size (granted this is the SMALLEST size in this series, something I was happy and lucky to find out, which means she probably also got it second hand) and she decided that she would make it work. She, by the way, used the old fashioned put on a tshirt and wrap yourself in duct tape technique, we found the shirt while we were cutting through and she stuffed it with poly fill, it was very squashy.
The whole time I was at the store I kept telling people that there was a good dress form under there. No one would believe me, but I kept telling them, just wait, just you see, there is a good dress form under there...and there was! It needs cleaned a little (you can see some light stains in the photo, they actually are less obvious in real life and look like they are probably from oil or grease and it is a little rusty) but shes my size (amazingly) and she will definitely get the job done.
The whole time I was at the store I kept telling people that there was a good dress form under there. No one would believe me, but I kept telling them, just wait, just you see, there is a good dress form under there...and there was! It needs cleaned a little (you can see some light stains in the photo, they actually are less obvious in real life and look like they are probably from oil or grease and it is a little rusty) but shes my size (amazingly) and she will definitely get the job done.
Also I just googled it, this is an Acme dress form in size A, on e-bay it runs typically between $50 and $100. WOOT!
