Regency Corset decoartive bone casings

The coutil I used for this Regency Corset was a coutil in cream (the cream shade is no longer available but white, black and beige are). I opted to use pale pink thread for the top stitched bone casings and I used a decorative stitch to enhance the casings and make them a design detail. The result was a very pretty corset.

Regency Corset - cording detail

I used the Mantua Makers Regency Corset Pattern for 1800-1820 to make this corset which I made from rose brocade coutil. The cording in the photo was not a detail discussed in the pattern but one that I added.  The lacing method used was "spiral lacing".     

 All product used can be found on the Farthingales website                                                                     

Soufle, Souffle, Soofull

Remember the fabric we used years ago that could make a costume look like there was just skin.  It was called souffle and was a nude colour and very fine. It had minimal stretch but great memory so it could be used on dance and skating costume as it moved with the wearer but retained it's shape. Well I've seen fabrics that look like it but don't have the characteristics it had BUT now I've found a fabric that doesn't look like it but does have the same characgteristics.

Check out the net section of our web site - this item has just been added today in nude and in black and it's 300 cm wide - that's 118 inches. www.farthingalescorsetmakingsupplies.com

Striped Corset

Book 2 is in the works and includes a chapter on working with stripes.

It should be on it's way to the publisher by the new year and available for purchase in 2013.

Silk and lace corset

JoAnn Zegers is making a corset for her grandaugher Emily to wear on the Corset Fashion Show runway during the Creativ Festival October 22nd.

She's layering fine black embroidered net over silk duopioni that fushia shot with black.

The plan is to pair the corset with black skinny jeans.

Corset Fashion Show Work Week

Leather Waist Cincher

Kathi Posliff has started her corset! She stenciled a pattern onto pre-cut waist cincher pieces then stiched along the pattern that she had traced onto the leather and it's under layer of gold silk.

you can see Kathi's corset and about 35 others at Farthingales Corset Fashion Show during the Creativ Festival in Toronto October 22nd.

Just one corset..of many

Production for the Corset Fashion Show is well underway! This is just one of many corsets that will be featured and it's not quite finished - it's also not on a proper sized mannequin.

This corset was created by starting with Vogue Patterns dress block/sloper. How I did it will be outlined in my second corset making book which unfortunatly will likely not hit stores until 2013. It's made from deep magenta Chinese brocade and features a hidden busk.

For discounted tickets to the Corset Fashion Show check out the "Sale" page on the Farthingales web site. http://www.farthingalescorsetmakingsupplies.com/