vintage flexiforms



AVIS - Size A (bust 32"- 39" & hips 34"- 40")



MAVIS - Size B (bust 36" - 50" & hips 38" - 52")



Flexiform manual


please welcome Avis and Mavis. These vintage dress forms were manufactured in NZ especially for the home sewer . As a mail order product, it was delivered as a boxed kitset of 14 pieces. The manual recommends that a friend is needed to help mould the Flexiform to the body otherwise "you will almost certainly end up with a dress-form that just isn't you!".

I won't be trying to re-mould the dress-forms as the vinyl clasps are becoming very brittle and prone to breaking plus the wire is so firm that it will be too tough on my fingers and thumbs to adjust it. So Avis and Mavis will be models for my sewing instead of the uninspiring 'hanger on the door' style I was using.