Welcome to my favourite month of the year, it’s not only Halloween, but my birthday month, and Starkers Corsetry birthday month. This year Starkers Corsetry is turning 29 years old, and I want you to celebrate with me! 🦇Every Friday this month, I will be doing give always, Affordable Corsets Friday and discount codes for…
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Face Masks: Toronto Small Business Style
Face masks and scrub caps, & supporting Toronto Small Businesses are what is on tap here, let me tell you all about it! Short story: I’m selling face masks to help fund my donations of scrub caps for nurses, and masks for organizations, like Toronto’s Covenant House, Toronto YWCA, All Creatures Rescue, Toronto postal workers,…
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Scoliosis, Back Injury And Corset Wearing
Today, I posted this picture on my Instagram, because the leaves on the ground and Halloween just around the corner reminded me that it was 6 years ago today that I was recovering from a microdiscectomy and laminotomy surgery. I wore a corset to help take the pressure off of my disc, and alleviate the…
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Toronto Corset Academy
I am very excited to announce that I will be teaching corset making classes in the Toronto studio! Beginners Corset Making, Advanced Corset Making, Patten Drafting For Corsets And Advanced Corset Making Techniques. In our Toronto Corset Making Classes, at the beginner level, learn how to make a single layer coutil corset with steel bones,…
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Let’s Talk About Busks Baby
When you look at a corset, one of the first things you notice, after the curve, is the silver busk closure. A busk is the traditional steel eye and pin closure at the front of a corset, the mainstay of modern corsetmaking (see what I did there?) Busks as we know them today…