Talk:Mannequin

Art crap
Whyd you delete my paragraph about art mannequins being different and made of wooden pegs sometimes? The peg thing is important! KM

About history
If someone is more knowledgable about this than I, please post something about the history of mannequins! Thanks!

umm ok..? What kind of history were you planning? (like who had the idea of mannequins or something) KM

Vandalism from port 216.167.223.145 once more
Are we dealing with this at all? I researched the port number and it seems they've been doing this all over the web. The time of entry 19:01 on the fourteenth Central US time from MN points to someone out of the school district pretty late at night. That is if its actually coming from there. Can we just prevent that location from editing again?Vinegartom 05:15, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

What?
"...group of mutilated mannequins is found at a suspect's house, causing the protagonist (and reader) to believe the suspect to be the shark..."

Because mannequins (excluding me) don't move, so people think its a shark. KM

Mannequin as synonym for Model
I remember seeing "mannequin" used as a synonym for a fashion model in a novel set in the late edwardian or the twenties. I don't remember it as having a derogatory connotation. 70.71.69.221 10:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Mannequin was used as a synonym for model because we model things, much like human models. KM

Prices for mannequins
Back in the early 1970s, my father rented out an entire floor of a building to a store that did nothing but manufacture and market life-sized mannequins. The typical buyer was a department store that needed mannequins to dress up in clothes that were for sale. Back then, a mannequin had a variety of prices, but the one price I can remember, was $500 US Dollars. The main article could be improved by talking about the various prices commanded by a mannequin. 216.99.201.156 (talk) 18:32, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

History?
Do they have a history even? 207.224.18.33 (talk) 07:06, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Of course! KM

Lack of Information
I feel as if this article lacks technical information, such the type of materials the mannequins are made of, the manufacturing process, how much they weigh, whether they're hollow or filled, etc. Also, there is no information about the artist's mannequins - apart from the picture. A section on them would be helpful too, and a history of mannequins would also be great in addition to the etymology. This entire article, the way it currently is, seems to be about badmouthing mannequins about how they're perceived as "creepy" by society, and used in works of fiction as such. 220.253.185.76 (talk) 07:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Spelling
In addition to the standard spelling, I've also seen the term spelled "mannikin" and "manikin". Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mannequin) seems to indicate both of those are acceptable (it doesn't say they're misspellings). Should they be included in the article?

If it seems official, go ahead. KM

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Ghost mannequin and ironing mannequins
To include in the article:
 * What is a ghost mannequin?.
 * Infatable mannequins : i.e. http://www.inflatablemannequins.com/items/Inflatable-Mannequins-By-Type/Leg-Forms/list.htm
 * Waht is an ironing mannequin and how it works (infatable)?:
 * https://www.tubie.de/
 * https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XB9S3FV/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A2GQFTQ34ANTHZ&psc=1
 * and so on.

It would be very interesting create an article about automatic ironing or ironing robots or both.--BoldLuis (talk) 13:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

inflatable, ghost and ironing mannequins aren't 'mainstream' (as in popular) and I don't really see a section in this page where they could fit. KM

Joel
What’s a manaquin ? 2601:152:4300:BA20:800D:4EEC:120A:85F4 (talk) 00:52, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

English gentleman, living together with a lifeless mannequin
Do somebody in Wikipedialand knows the name of the British TV-movie in which a well-to-do English gentleman is living together with a lifeless mannequin which he calls "Helen"? It is a very weird movie. This gentleman is always performing fruitless telephone calls from his office, to know if his "Helen" is at home or not. There is (understandable) never an answer at the other end of the line, and he (the gentleman) is always in panic. Each day he is driving homeward to know what's wrong with "Helen" and why she doesn't answer the telephone. As far as I can remember, this gentleman could have been the British actor Richard Briers, but it is too long ago (it might have been on BBC TV somewhere in the eighties or early nineties). It would be very interesting to include the name of this weird British TV-movie into this article! DannyCaes (talk) 14:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)