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rainbaby, I've never heard it called an 'appliance'. My mother had one and she called it a 'dummy' or a 'model'. I would call it a 'mannequin' or 'dummy'.
But in the UK, a 'dummy' is also what you would call a 'pacifier', one of those things you shove in a baby's mouth to stop it crying.
When my mom was a teenager, she and all the other girls had a custom-made dress form built to her own proportions. Because back then, you know, girls made their own dresses for the dance! (Which I actually think is really cool.)
But I mostly came in here to say that when I vacuum, I put on a long flowing dress and dance around with the Eureka, as if it were my ballroom partner.
You'll have to pry my Kitchen Aid stand mixer from my cold dead hands.
Also, any of you dress form-having bunnies want to make my wedding dress for me? I can't find anything off the rack that isn't crazy expensive or not at all what I want.
I have an antique dress form from the 1870s I love, used as a bag and scarf rack in the hallway. You can make your own dress form (to your proportions) with duct tape, mudpuppie - see here for eg. Sorry, misskaz, my mum's the seamstress, not me.
I would love a stand mixer, and I think that'll be my next appliance purchase. Otherwise, my ovens. One even has a pizza setting.
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