Padded or shaped forms that a sewer works over, either to fit and drape a garment on a model of the body or to press curved seams and darts into shape. A tool belongs here when its cited source describes it as a form, model or cushion used to shape clothing. It excludes the cutting tools and machines in the neighbouring groups. Both tools stand in for the curves of a body, one as a full torso on a stand and the other as a tightly stuffed pillow shaped roughly like a ham.
Fitting and Pressing Forms
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Dress form (Wikipedia)
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A dress form is a three-dimensional model of the human torso used for fitting clothing that is being designed or sewed.
Tailor's ham (Wikipedia)
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A tailor's ham or dressmaker's ham is a tightly stuffed pillow used as a curved mold when pressing curved areas of clothing, such as darts, sleeves, cuffs, collars, or waistlines.
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