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TIL Dress shops in Manhattan used headless mannequins in their windows because it was thought that a face would be distracting. In 1935, Cora Scoville invented a plaster composition and made mannequins with faces resembling fashion editors. Bonwit Teller started a new trend using these mannequins.

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