Go through all the stores, and will spend several mannequins models the latest fashions. While continuing to come to this visual representation of staples have for granted, have a rich past and mannequins plans, going back in Egypt. Whereas developed as mannequins over the years, we can see that they have not only the ideal, there should be similar against, but how we should live. No wonder historians, dealers, fashion and pupils are equalIntrigued by these figures realistic for so long.
and East. Ages ancient tomb of Tutankhamen was opened in 1922 as king, one of the treasures were found, believed in a trunk-like life, the world's first costume brand. In fact, put the dummy its functional role as a dress form through the centuries. Were realistic facsimiles of kings and queens, so that tailors and seamstresses could not create clothes, the rulers were created with mobile endlessor, worse, threaten their modesty touching their bodies.
French aristocracy. In the 18th century in France was the fashion, and "fashion dolls" were created as a capital to show the French fashion designer in the world. These early dummies, representing the ideal of fashion at court ranged from about five inches tall to life. Were abroad, so people could see what were the French and copies sent to the styles. Marie Antoinette was knownAustria to dolls to send to their mothers and sisters have been updated with the fashionable at Versailles.
The industrial revolution and the windows. Mannequins has a great leap forward in the development of electrically lit streets and large glass windows and glass. Suddenly, walking the streets and had to receive the fantasy worlds in shop windows, a popular pastime. The dummies were created for this purposewax and wood. Were extremely heavy, weighing 200-300 pounds, reinforced with steel legs, so that they remain standing. With glass eyes, false teeth and real hair, took the ideal of female mannequin large breasts and small waists, make life situations, how to give a toast at a dinner. The art of fashion merchandising was born.
influence of Hollywood. Until '20, had mannequins, expressions of wood, so they called it"Dummies". In the era of silent films, but there was a greater emphasis on face and body. With the popularity of Hollywood movies purchased mannequins, features realistic and animated facial expressions that mirror those of famous stars like Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. In order to complete his movie star looks, her in a letter of intent, were exposed as fictional situations with cocktails at the Country Club
Girls of Gaba. 30s began dummiesare made with plaster, the weight is reduced by about twenty-five pounds. And thanks to a former soap factory, a sculptor Lester Gaba, reached a new level of realism. His life-size figures were called "The Gaba Girls," the most famous of which was named Cynthia. Cynthia Gaba presented as the latest celebrity in New York, pop culture and the doll was a sensation. He took her to nightclubs and the opera, and also lent his Jewels Cartier and Tiffany.
World warII, with the arrival of World War II, life changed and so are dummies. Mannequins how careless people have been replaced with heavy, those no-nonsense. But when the troops back, dummies, the public sector in promoting the public to be happy again. The dummies woman wearing bright smile, while the men were relaxed and comfortable, both the internal display, suburban bliss.
Fiberglass and plastic. Since the '50s, dummiesaway from the frail, fragile plaster, fiberglass and plastic in solids. Because production and sculpture were not yet refined, the new mannequins less realistic and takes an abstract quality. They actually celebrated surrealism, with molded hair and anatomical inaccuracies. The dummy was Pop Art.
The women of the revolution. If the role of women began to change in the '60s, exposed the dummy round. On one side wasHousewife (or would-be home), mannequins with bouffant look and hope. The other extreme was the active, confident women posing, casual and confident. The decade also gave us the mod look - lean, leggy mannequin figures by Twiggy embodied.
Real life. The 70s saw the introduction of Black, Asian and Latin models, that the growing ethnic mix in the country. The reflection of the turbulent decade that began with mannequins faceExpressions of pain, anxiety and stress. In 80 years the country has lost "physical" and mannequins were followed by running and jumping poses.
Modern Day When it comes to dummies are now out of the old rules, and everything goes. Mannequins are different colors, crystal, without head, back and without any form of abstraction. In reality, the realistic figures of recent decades hour look very scary. There is no form "ideal, probably because it is no longer aConsensus on a vision of ideal beauty.
While we know that fashion and dummies were always intertwined with each other, is fascinating to see what these "dummies" have on us as a culture, history and culture show.
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