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Making It Up
Only years before, mannequins were often still ponderously heavy, relatively unrealistic creations of wax. They melted in the summer heat, and bore frightening rictus grins of real human teeth. Upper-class women preferred to see how their clothes looked by having them modeled on young, human women. Gaba was one of a wave of pioneers in making modern mannequins that combined style with realism — his so-called Gaba Girls.
