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A gold mannequin’s leg with an attached microphone substituted as Masli’s left arm.

“I went into department stores and the first dress I saw on the mannequin was off-white lace, and I was like, ‘This is gonna be it,’” Windey said.

Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.

James says he doesn't meet the industry standard of a male model - "tall and slim, a perfect mannequin".

The characters are all rigorously mannered, as though they’re mimicking the mannequins in old film strips of 1950s bomb shelters.