News - July 2006
Lovely Creature Corsetry
Lovely Creature Corsetry was started in 1996 by Shaerie Raulli Mead. Besides
making corsets and costumes, she does consulting and bookkeeping for smaller
businesses, and teach corsetry and pattern making classes in Santa Monica. She
receive customers in her studio in Hollywood on various days and by appointment.
You can also read about her in her journal lc_corsetry
on LiveJournal.
(31 July)
Diva Corsets
Diva
Corsets have a shop in London as well as a detailed website. They make a
range of corsets and corset-dresses suitable for fashion use and for wearing as
outer garment. Their collection is available for individuals and for wholesale.
(30 July)
Scarlett's Corset
The
Dallas (Texas) base Scarlett's
Corset make corsets in various styles and fabrics: Fancy
dress, Basic, Casual
Fabrics and Leather.
The corsets are based on a Victorian pattern, and are made in 3 layers with 26
flexible steels stays and 6 flat steel stays in the fabrics corsets. Price are
from US$155 for a basic corset to US$255 for a leather corset, and there are
various fabrics to choose from.
(30 July)
Practical Corsets
Practical
Corsets make and sell corsetry, fitted bodices and dresses, skirts, trousers
and accessories. The corsets are naturally hand made and made according to
customer wishes. Fitting for wedding gowns are available in Glasgow, Edinburgh
and Aberdeen.
(22 July)
Corset seminars and workshops
Linda
Sparks, author of The
Basics of Corset Building and webmaster of Farthingales Fabrics, will
conduct a seminar on Basics
of Period Corset Building and a Corset
Building Workshop in cooperation with Vogue
Fabrics. The seminar takes place Friday 20th October, and two classes are
planned for the workshop: 21-22nd October and 23-25th October. Both at Vogue
Fabrics in Evanston - Illinois.
(20 July)
Somatine
Somatine
is the new corset pinup from France. She is concurrently introduced on Staylace.
(19 July)
Snobz Corsets
Snobz Corsets is a UK
(Hampshire) based corset making company, run by three people.
They have corsets for underbust, overbust or styled as a bodices - all made to
measure. Corsets can be ordered by individuals or for wholesale business. Sales
tax is added within the EU.
(18 July)
Cinderella Collection
1st
For Gifts is an online store for gifts and giftware. One of their decorative
ornaments and collectables is titled Cinderella
Collection, and includes Black
Stiletto Phone Holder, Corset
Ring Holder, Corset
Memo/Photo Holder and Corset
Pencil Pot.
(18 July)
J.C.Creations
J.C.Creations
has updated their site with new photos and photos: Baseball
in corset and Wedding
corsets and gowns.
(16 July)
Hungarian corset site
The Hungarians have a website about corsets: My
corset Page - in Hungarian. They have few videos, including one with Kurt
Ingerl, and a forum in Hungarian.
(15 July)
Cathie Jung
has published new photos of her wearing a blue
satin corset from Lace Embrace. In her FAQ
24 she answers new questions, helping a 32 year old woman about the basics
of corsets and replying to questions about the effect on her voice.
(10 July)
Arachnoidea
Arachnoidea
is the new corset pinup from Germany. She is concurrently introduced on Staylace.
(6 July)
Creations l'Escarpolette
Creations
l'Escarpolette has updated their website with many new models.
(2 July)