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Corset Fashion Show Entry

The corset fashion show will take place at the Toronto Metro Convention Center on October 22nd 2010 during the Creativ Festival. While Farthingales is producing the show there are about 32 women involved and a couple of men to! Everyone has submitted sketches or descriptions which means everyone who originally signed up is still on board which is pretty incredible for a volunteer project.


Kathi is the first one I've got some photos from; as a fiber artist with no corset building experience she's focusing on the fabric. She's creating two corsets for the corset fashion show. One corset is being featured in A Needle Pulling Thread magazine in a three part series - check out the August Issue for the first installment.

Several fabrics cut into bits and pinned securley between two layers of net.

The second corset Kathi is working on will be built from the same corset pattern - a modern take on an 18th century corset. She's taken several fabrics, cut them into bits and with decorative machine stitching anchorded them between two layers of open net. This one of kind fabric is only being used as a detail; it's being combined with other purchased fabric.

There will be over 30 corsets on the runway during the corset fashion show and many will be on display for the balance of the weekend.  So mark you calendar and book a day off work Friday October 22nd this is a show worth seeing.

Anime Central 13

Is just a week away and Farthingales Corset making products will be there at the Farthingales/Vogue booth.

There will be corset patterns and corset making kits - check out http//www.ryeandgingerkits.com to see a few of the kits that will be available.

Ready made fashion corsets will also be there.

Anime Central 13 is being held in Rosemount, Illinois!

Corset Fashion Show

The corset fashion show being produced by Farthingales will be presented Friday, October 22nd 2010 during the Creativ Festival in Toronto.

The show will be about 45 minutes long and will feature over 30 corsets that will have been designed and executed by over 16 different individuals! The corsets will be made by a wide cross section of people - most of whom have limited corset making experience but are artists in other areas. Those with minimal corset experience are pairing up with people who will help guide them through the process so this is a serious team effort! The designs are just now beinging to come in and the diversity is amazing. Everyone will be putting their own spin on what a corset can be. Look for knit corsets, painted corsets, and everything from historic underwear corsets to goth look corsets and even corsets for business wear.

If you can't make it to the show on October 22nd there will be a display of some one them at the Farthingales booth for the balance of the weekend.

Corset Making Class

The next Corset Class taught by Linda Sparks of Farthingales will be held October 20th at the Creativ Festival in Toronto. The information should be on their web site soon.

You can sign-up for their e-mail news letter by following the link provided here. http://www.csnf.com/f10_index.html

The class is just one day! And will be based on a pre-cut corset kit similar but not the same as those found on http://www.ryeandgingerkits.com/

Corset Fashion Show

Farthingales will not only be taking part in the fashion show during the Creativ Festival but there will also be a booth to display the corsets after the fashion show for the balance of the weekend. This festival opens the opportunity for each corset maker to work with other creative women, create her own look and incorporate other needle arts than just machine sewing. The organizer of the Creativ Festival said this project epitomizes what the Creativ Festival is all about.

The Fashion show will take place on Friday October 22nd, time to be announced. Day admission to the Creativ Festival is $15.00 for Adults, $12.00 for Seniors and $4.00 for students/youth. The Farthingale's booth will be located within view of the fashion show -- including our booth displaying the corsets from the fashion show. 

We are excited to be showcasing a variety of corsets that will represent different types of corset making!

Corset Fashion Show

Creativ Festival


That’s no spelling mistake it truly is “creative” without the “e” and the “Creativ Festival” used to be known as the Creative Sewing Festival. www.creativfestival.ca

This is Farthingales big event…in fact it’s more than just big because this year we’re exhibiting, Linda’s teaching a one day corset making class and she’s producing what will be a fashion show like no other! A corset fashion show, that’s not about lingerie.

So what’s so interesting about this corset fashion show? How do I explain it….perhaps “corset consortium” sums it up. A group of women and a few good men are joining together to create corsets and model them. I presented the idea of a corset fashion show to some people I know and ended up with 24 volunteers. Ages range from teens to…well somewhere above my 49 . We’ve got novice sewers and professional sewers and everything in between and we’ve got mentors for those who want them. We’ve got models and back stage management, make-up artists and photographers, jewelry makers and fabric painter and a whole load of enthusiasm. Many of the models will be modeling corsets they designed and built themselves and we have no doubt you’ll see some garment you love because every one is developing their own idea of what a corset can be and bringing their own art to project. I don’t want to let any secrets out of the bag but some of the ideas have even had me in awe and I’ve seen a lot of different corsets! What I can say is you’ll see bridal, evening, historic, fantasy and some amazing needle work details.

The show will be held on Friday, October 22nd during the Creativ Festival at the Metro Convention Center in Toronto. The fashion show is free with admission to the Creativ Festival and if you can’t get there for the show you can still see some of the corsets on display at our booth #838.

Come discover what corsets can really be, they’re so much more than “old underwear”!