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[slightly off-topic I know] A friend of mine was describing the monstrous sight of the original couture garment next to the 'mannequin' of it's customer, wearing the recreation. The houses create detailed body mannequins of their customers, with padding, wadding, and sometimes caving to create a basis from which to work. She described how they had to take a hammer to the chest of one mannequin to recreate the concave nature of one customer's chest...