This is a continuation of our blog series about our love of Rootstein mannequins. P.S. If you also love Rootstein mannequins, we created this Pinterest board with over 200 images from vintage to current models. This blog post is devoted to the mannequins of color…
vi. Rewind to the early 1950’s, when a young Adel Rootstein immigrated to London from South Africa (born in Warmbaths, 1930) to discover the city’s fashion scene in the midst of a glamorous post-WWII revival – a creative wave that would later make way for the…
For the month of October, when we are not blogging about Halloween (our favorite holiday cause we sell lots of body parts from our mannequin boneyard), we are going to be blogging about Rootstein mannequins. We heard a rumor that the Rootstein company is undergoing a…
I didn’t know quite how to react when I saw this window display on Pinterest representing a mother breastfeeding her child. Even though the window display was toned down by the use of a headless dress form and cloth baby – as opposed to realistic…