Dress forms are cheaper at....

I've wanted a dress form for a little while, well actually ever since I blew the cobwebs off my sewing machine. But the desire to do so became acute when I spent a day freezing to death in my underwear and a few scraps of fabric known as a toile. Yes, yes alterations and fittings in the dead of winter in a cold little apartment are not fun. So being a bit of a Law Of Attraction practitioner I put it out there and then forgot about it. About a week later one turned up on the sidewalk outside Vinnies. A quick look and I also discovered it was exactly my size. So I bought it, for $50.