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Marsha Bentley Hale has been studying mannequins for several decades and considered one of the most knowledgeable person about mannequins. Marsha, known to some as "Marsha Mannequin," and whom here at FashionWindows we fondly call The Patron Saint of Mannequins began her fascination with the figures while studying photojournalism at the University of California, Los Angeles.

While she was driving through Beverly Hills one night in 1978, a group of mannequins in a store window caught her eye. Her photographer's eyes could not help but notice that they were perfect subjects for a photograph. When she got back to the university the next day, she found out that there was almost nothing about mannequins in the huge UCLA library. A lot of phone calls and a bit of detective work, she found historical materials about mannequins. Since then, Marsha Bentley Hale had been documenting, collecting and researching about mannequins.