crazy ideas with craft & fashion

Somewhere I think I've seen someone turn a wooden artist's body model into a regency poupée de mode. And I want to do this. Not using a wooden repro doll but using a more affordable/easier to find artist's jointed doll thingy. Like this 12" wooden artist's manikin. The head would need to be re-fashioned for the more ball shaped doll of the time.