Such body awareness in turn translates into body language, the most ancient of languages and certainly a universal form of communication.

The one thing that we all possess in one shape or another is a body.

Our body's movements, or rather our body attitudes, communicate on many levels, emotionally and otherwise.

Mannequins in their fiberglass silence both whisper and shout at potential customers, using their own special brand of body language to reach passersby.

Frozen in time and space, mannequins constitute statements to be interpreted, each decade in their development a testament to the era and society that produced them.

Many factors determine mannequin body attitudes of any decade. These factors include:

Combined with these factors are social influences, political climates, the arts and technological advances - all of which have an impact on mannequins.

Mannequins embody the imaginative needs of the time and serve their foremost function in both the displaying and selling of merchandise.