'mannequin' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe the dress form used in displaying and fitting clothes. For example, "The department store had a wide selection of clothes for sale and several mannequins to show them off."
Now, if jeans need to be clipped on a mannequin – even half a mannequin – in order to look good, they will sure as hell look a hot mess on any actual human being.
The orange jumpsuit was displayed with Native American jewellery and belt, in silver and turquoise; each mannequin in the exhibit wore Apfel's signature owlish glasses.
The greatcoat was evident during an impromptu TV interview Gilmour had given on the streets that night, during which "he was still carrying the mannequin part, albeit he tried to tuck it under his greatcoat", said Hughes.
But only slightly less famous is "Never buy anything if the shop assistants needed to pin it on the mannequin".
Some 35,000 troops marched into WAPDA, the leaking electric utility, to ensure that meters were read and bills paid.Yet martial discipline can provide only a department-store mannequin version of reform.
She decided whether a nude mannequin was pornographic (no), and met city leaders to deal with questions about strip clubs and adult magazines.
First comes the idea, then the sketching, then the draping of white toile (muslin), first over a mannequin and later over a live model, and finally the cutting of samples on a pattern that translates the temporary magic of the toile into a permanent garment in the fabric and colours of the designer's choice.
Fulla, for example, is a popular slimline mannequin with a headscarf manufactured for the Muslim world.
This was good move: it is far more exciting to watch a performer writhe than to consider the merits of a mannequin draped in a limp old T-shirt and jeans.Yet for a movement that was largely defined by its music, it feels odd that only one gallery blares the extreme and energetic sounds of The New York Dolls, Richard Hell, The Slits, The Damned and others.
A gallery lined with statues of Chinese Buddhist saints now contains at its centre a mannequin wearing a shiny gold gown (Guo Pui, 1969).
Just behind the mannequin bride there is British Pathé footage of the couple emerging from the Brompton Oratory, a Catholic church just next door to the V&A, into a surging crowd of uninvited well-wishers before being gathered up and bundled into a waiting car.
