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.