Like I said in my last post, costume mounting isn't as simple as buying a it mannequin to the right side and putting a garment on it. You need to make sure the mount fits the garment as well as it possibly can to properly support it. Poor support will distort the garment and that's a really bad thing.
The first part of padding up is to pin the padding to the mannequin where you need it. Then you cover it in tissue and try the garment on over it. Then you see where you still need padding, take the garment off, and add more padding. And continue to repeat these steps until you are happy with the fit. You then stitch the padding to the mount and hope you find all the pins in the process. You will be left with something that looks like this.
You then cover that with a layer of stretchy cotton jersey fabric, which you make sure is as tight as possible.
The next step is to create arms out of padding and cover them in fabric. This particular mannequin has two layers of fabric- the first is jersey (which keeps the padding in place) and the second is silk fabric that makes sliding the arms in and out of the jacket sleeves easier.
The jacket being mounted on this mannequin has a sloped front hem, so extensions are needed to support them properly (otherwise there the jacket curls under the edge of the mannequin- very bad).
The fabric for the extensions matches the jacket's lining. However, the only way you can see them when the jacket is on the mount is if you are laying on the floor, which means the only visitors who will ever be in a position to appreciate this are bored children and I doubt they'll care.
The neck area is visible when the mannequin is on display, so that area is covered in nice fabric- in this case a stretchy cotton black jersey. First you sew it to the neck area...
And then you finish it off with a disc covered in the black fabric.
That's the basics on how to pad up a mannequin.
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