just saw someone say that it's easier for museums to keep smaller old clothes because smaller mannequins are easier to get than plus sized mannequins, and I, for one, as a museum worker, would LOVE to know where this person gets their small mannequins because we can't find ones tiny enough for our tiny old clothes. we have 2 (TWO!!) really small women's mannequins, with the smallest shoulders and smallest bust and tiniest of tiny waists and some of our oldest clothes still don't *quite* fit them right.

meanwhile with bigger clothes some of our modern mannequins are too small and we just stuff them with towels or paper or whatever. like it's fine, it's not super hard to scale mannequins *up*, there's tons of ways to do that (even if we don't have to do it all that often). but making them smaller? I've heard of museums who have sawed off boobs and shoulders to get mannequins to be small enough for old clothes because small enough mannequins are so hard to come by and modern mannequins are just too wide.