I recently did a survey of my email list asking three simple questions:

• Do you own a custom dress form?
• What kind do you have?
• What do you struggle with when using your form?

For those that didn't have a dress form and had no desire for one, I asked why and received a flood of responses that revealed a lot of misconceptions about the value of using a dress form as a fitting tool.

If you're interested in what I learned from the survey and want some clarifying information about dress forms in general, watch the video. I'm going to clear up some of those misconceptions and, for those of you lucky enough to own a custom dress form that is a replica of your body, I've got a special announcement for you.

Let's start with those that own a dress form.
These were the 5 main dress form types used by those that responded to the survey:

• Beatrice Forms
• Ditto Form
• Mimiquins
• Bootstrap
• Adjustoform

There were 12 other dress form companies mentioned but these were the most commonly referred...