George,

Perhaps this is a late reply (I've been out of the loop for a bit), but
here's something on mannequins.  A good person to go to on this subject
is Ed McManus, chief conservator of the Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum, Washington, D.C.  I worked with him last summer on
mannequins for space suits.

While we actually built ours from scratch with direction from textile
conservator Virginia Pledger and input from metalworkers in the museum
restoration shop, Ed *did* have a mannequin from a firm in Canada on hand
to evaluate.  The evaluation was incomplete when I left, so I don't know
the results.

If you're interested, there's a good summary of space-suit mannequin work
in Lillian Kozloski's U.S. SPACE GEAR: OUTFITTING THE ASTRONAUT
(Smithsonian Institution, 1994).  Contact me off the list and I'll give
you Ed McManus's e-mail address if you want it.

Cheers!

Doug L.

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Doug Lantry
University of Delaware
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On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, George Bailey wrote:

> I am currently looking at mannequins used in museum/gallery exhibitions. I
> am particularly interested in the problems involved in dressing them, e.g.
> manipulating sleeves over rigid arms etc, varying poses etc, and solutions
> to these problems. Can anyone recommend certain types or brands that are
> easy to prepare and change the pose of? Does such an animal even exist?
>
> George Bailey
> Australian War Memorial
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