Mannequins make wonderful employees. They work day and night, never call in sick and don’t even need lunch or cigarette breaks. For decades now retailers all over the world have used wholesale mannequins in windows and throughout the store to display apparel, be it a realistic female mannequin, a handsome male mannequi
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When many people think about mannequinS they simply envision clothes horses which are used to display the trend of the week and then stripped and redressed when the stock changes a little while later. What even the most cynical consumer may not realize is how much the dress mannequins in the store do influence their thinking and their buying habits without perhaps, their even realizing it.

For example in a mixed merchandise store (think of d
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Ask many a man on the street what they think of singer Beyonce Knowles (beyond her obvious vocal talents and the cool factor she gained when she hooked up with Jay Z) and they are likely to use words like “hot” and “wow ”a lot. So why was it that when a well-known female mannequin designer was approached to produce a Beyonce lookalike to display the clothes produced by her personal fashion house, House of Dereon , did her own mother (and business partner) suggest that the designer shave
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Since they first began showing up in retail store windows in the 19th century both the female mannequin and the male mannequin have tended to be created to reflect the trends of their era. Once mannequin making technology evolved to the point that dress mann
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That New York City is one of the ultimate meccas for fashion is well known. The annual NY Fashion Week has become one of the most anticipated fashion events in the world and New York ladies (and increasingly gentlemen) pride themselves on being amongst the most fashion forward citizens in the world.

dress mannequinsare hardly a rare site in the Big Apple either. The fe
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