I reinforced the insides of the dressform everywhere that did not feel solid. This included tummy, hips, waist and shoulders.
Then I cut cardboard covered the arm hole openings along with the bottom. I inserted these to make a tight support fit and then taped over them for stability.
Next project was making a cover. I used M pattern which had a sheath dress with princess seams going to the shoulder. This pattern was tough to find with most princess seams going to the arm hole or ending at the bust. First I made a muslin adding a center seam. I pin fitted it with some seams on the right side so I could make adjustments in ink and then recut, ripped seams and used this as the pattern for cutting out the more expensive linen fabric. I basted all seams to check for fit and ironed them open. Then with it on the dress form I ripped out the basting stitches down the center back until I could easily remove it from the form by sliding it down. This was a little more than half way down the back. I had to take the form and pole off the stand to then remove the cover for a final sewing and pressing. After sewing over the basted seams and giving the dress a good pressing, I "redressed" the form and put the pole back on the stand. I hand sewed the remainder of the open back seam closed and placed black elastic on the non existent waist. I hand basted the fabric around each armhole to gather and then the fabric at the bottom of the dress. I glued this fabric down and then used my original templates for the cardboard armhole and bottom covers to cut out black felt. I used a double sided adhesive used for applique on the back of the felt, some glue on the actual dress form and then pressed the felt in place with a hot iron. It came out pretty nice but didn't feel finished.
I reinforced the insides of the dressform everywhere that did not feel solid. This included tummy, hips, waist and shoulders. 
Then I cut cardboard covered the arm hole openings along with the bottom. I inserted these to make a tight support fit and then taped over them for stability.
Next project was making a cover. I used M pattern which had a sheath dress with princess seams going to the shoulder. This pattern was tough to find with most princess seams going to the arm hole or ending at the bust. First I made a muslin adding a center seam. I pin fitted it with some seams on the right side so I could make adjustments in ink and then recut, ripped seams and used this as the pattern for cutting out the more expensive linen fabric. I basted all seams to check for fit and ironed them open. Then with it on the dress form I ripped out the basting stitches down the center back until I could easily remove it from the form by sliding it down. This was a little more than half way down the back. I had to take the form and pole off the stand to then remove the cover for a final sewing and pressing. After sewing over the basted seams and giving the dress a good pressing, I "redressed" the form and put the pole back on the stand. I hand sewed the remainder of the open back seam closed and placed black elastic on the non existent waist. I hand basted the fabric around each armhole to gather and then the fabric at the bottom of the dress. I glued this fabric down and then used my original templates for the cardboard armhole and bottom covers to cut out black felt. I used a double sided adhesive used for applique on the back of the felt, some glue on the actual dress form and then pressed the felt in place with a hot iron. It came out pretty nice but didn't feel finished.
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