Nothing New Under the Sun

Does it look wrong to display my crocheted and knit pieces on a naked manniquin? Did I spell manniquin correctly? I love this little poncho. It was one of my many unplanned pieces. You know what I mean: you run across some cones of yarn in a box while you're searching for something else. You pick up 2 of them, because they blend beautifully together and wonder how they'd look together, maybe with a size K hook, or even a big N. Whatever you were doing before you found those cones gets lost, wherever. This piece has a great texture with a flake cotton blended with a rik rak cotton - 2 of the leftovers from warps that were on my looms, decades ago.
The stitch isn't original, nor is the way I used it. I make a lot of these, because I get a lot of satisfaction from the process of this stitch. Figuring out how to pile these triangles so that I get this, or any other shape, is always a challenge, even though I've made at least a dozen pieces like them. I vary the thickness of the stitch. This one is doubled and I think looks like stars. When I triple it, the pattern looks like puffy flowers, like the little pastel poncho on the right.
I know it's not original, but honestly, I learned how to do this long before it entered the world of pop culture queens and fashion designers. It can't be copyrighted, because someone had also been selling the pattern as an actual "system" for designing crocheted garments. I just try to be sure that the pieces I make are my own shapes and garment design. I found that the more I worked at crochet and knit, the more I felt inclined to design my own pieces. Following a pattern slows me down and I often end up changing the pattern anyway. There's a creative drive in me that demands that I keep trying something different.
The piece on the lower right is typical of my more original designs. I call it "Trellis". It was crocheted in one piece, with a single seam in the back.
BTW, the dresses in these photos were handwoven and are my own designs. I designed the fabric, shaped the garments on the loom and assembled them after fulling the fabric. I may never be able to afford a floor loom or have the room for a loom again. Too bad I have to sell off the garment collection. I need the money just to survive right now.