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After watching Amazon and waiting for the right price and right size for quite awhile, I finally bought this dress form. I had been shopping for one for over a year, but was not willing to spend the $300 for a "unique" shape, nor could I find anyone willing to help me make one out of duct tape. But finally this dress form came up in a size close enough to my measurements. Now then, to be honest, after I set all the sizing wheels (and there are plenty) I still had to use a lot of padding here and there to make it match my actual shape. The first thing I did is put an old bra on it and stuffed it (reminded me of when I was 13 years old). Next, I added dacron batting to the stomach, shoulders, and across the upper back. When all this extra stuff was stuck on the form, it looked just awful - like a cross between the Mummy and Frankenstein. So, I bought some 4-way stretch lycra in a nice color, stretched it tightly around the widest part of my dummy double, and sewed a tube to that measurement, using a stretch stitch. I rolled it over the dress form, and pinned a shoulder and neck seam. I stitched that, trimmed it, and put the cover back on. Because it is a stretch fabric, I used flat head pins down center front, back, sides, and waist to keep it from slipping (the pins also serve as guidelines). So, for $77 for the dress form, a few dollars of batting, and about $10 for the lycra, I have a dress form that is exactly my shape - and saved $200!