Many are accustomed to seeing mannequins only in the windows of fashion boutiques and studios, however, now they can be seen at home. Nowadays, they have become a home accessory, and are a great way to help talented craftswomen take their own measurements without outside help.
Your own mannequin will help you perfectly fit the product, and if you work from home, it will help you attract the attention of clients. Let's take a closer look at how it can be done taking into account your style of the room.
Decorating a mannequin with fabric
The mannequin is ready, but what to do next? How to decorate it? The answer is simple! You will have to work a little and this product will become a real accessory in your home interior. In order to transform the made “helper”, you can decorate it with fabric. To do this, you will need the fabric you like; it is better to use knitted fabric.
Process:
- open the turtleneck from the fabric (don’t forget to leave + 10 cm to cover the bottom);
- put on the cover and sew it around;
- You can decorate the holder with forged products; they are sold at any hardware store.
There is nothing complicated, the money is not badly saved and we learned how to decorate a mannequin with fabric.
Decorating a mannequin for the New Year
A win-win option is to put festive costumes on the dolls, put them on felt boots or boots with glitter, match their outfits with boxes of gifts and complement the images with hats like Santa Claus. The golden color will fit into the composition and add luxury to the whole picture.
Buyers value creativity. You can come up with whole stories: for example, install several mannequins next to the New Year tree and “play up” the situation so that people think that the dolls are decorating the tree. You can put them on a sled or cart drawn by reindeer, and between several participants in the composition you can create an imitation of footprints in the snow.
If the mannequin is male, by the way, hold a staff wrapped in tinsel in his hand, and throw a bag of gifts behind his back. This will prompt customers to quickly stock up on gifts for the New Year. If the store is sports, you can equip the doll with skis or skates, and put a Christmas tree next to it.
It is important to follow the basic rule of trade, according to which any decoration must be relevant. Clothes from the summer collection are not suitable for New Year's decorations. You should also not forget about the age audience and stock the children's departments with dolls with gloomy facial expressions.
For the New Year, representatives of the fair sex dress in their best outfits. It is beneficial for women's clothing stores to dress mannequins in ball gowns - both to unobtrusively demonstrate their assortment and to decorate the window in a classic formal style.You can wrap the mannequins in fur coats - then it’s best to create the atmosphere of a snowy forest against the background.
For a youth store, outerwear would hardly be appropriate. You can dress up the mannequins in boots and sweaters, attach tinsel to their belts, and put carnival masks on their faces. Children's figures are framed with angel wings, and tangerines or postcards are placed in their hands.
You can embroider the inscription “Happy New Year” on the collar - this will win over buyers and remind them of the upcoming holiday. Another option that will “invit” customers is a message about discounts pasted directly on the doll.
To sell as much product as possible, designers advise creating complete images. The mannequin should be dressed harmoniously: if it is wearing an elegant dress, then shoes match the color of the fabric, a hairpin or necklace to match the shoes. The buyer will like how one detail complements the other and will want to buy everything at once.
Decorating a mannequin for a New Year tree
In recent years, the fashion for Christmas tree dresses has firmly taken root in the West.
It’s easy to make an unusual frame of this type. To make a Christmas tree in the form of a dress you will need:
- fabric or ready-made corset, bow or catchy ribbon;
- dense mesh (construction mesh, for example), wire, pliers, scissors;
- spruce branches (it doesn’t matter whether they come from a living tree or a plastic one);
- any Christmas tree decorations.
Creation algorithm:
- establish the figure steadily;
- dress the “torso” in a corset or wrap it in noble fabric so that the result resembles a top;
- cut spruce branches and remove excess shoots from them;
- wrap the net around your waist and secure with wire;
- After the frame is created, it is necessary to add Christmas tree branches to it. Start from the bottom up;
- Attach the end of each branch to the mesh with wire.Continue layering until the “skirt” becomes full;
- decorate the branches with cones, garlands, toys or sprinkle with artificial snow.
This is far from the only option for a Christmas tree in the form of a dress for the New Year: the branches can be replaced with peacock feathers or tinsel. A bow is tied on the waist, and another twig or feather is tied on the neck.
The dress can be made of white transparent fabric, then from a distance the image will resemble a bride. The “bottom” needs to be reinforced with a hoop, and branches with garlands should be placed under the hem.
A surefire way to increase holiday sales is to make your potential customers laugh. Passers-by will appreciate the “glove” mannequin and will want to look inside the department, if only out of interest. They make it in the same way as a regular one, only the spruce branches are replaced with a bunch of mittens and mittens.
Before placing the mannequin on the display, you should take care of the correct lighting. You should not be content with one lamp - many shadows are formed, which, falling on the clothes, will not present them in the best possible way. It is advisable to use two light sources so that the rays emanating from them overlap each other and do not distort visibility.
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