LAista corset-lovers: Farthingales, which is the mail-order supply house for corset supplies, is opening a storefront in Los Angeles. Details:
Farthingales is opening a US location to better serve our many American customers. Our new location is a retail store on Pico Blvd in Santa Monica, California. Farthingales L.A. Inc will be a bit different from our Canadian operation but we plan to offer the same great quality in product and service. The new location will offer not only corset making supplies but ready made historic corsets and ready made fashion corsets as well as classes.
We'll have day and evening classes for everything from making your own corset to hand embroidery for costume and corset embelishment.
We'll also offer on-line mail order to make shipping faster and more cost effective to all American addresses.
Retail store opens July 20th at 3306 Pico Blvd. just west of the Santa Monica Freeway. There's plenty of free parking around the back! Look for the black and white stripe awning. Note: The shop will be CLOSED August 4th, 5th,6th and 7th as all employees will be involved in Costume College.
Web ordering should be available by August 4th. VISIT our Farthingales L.A. web site regularly to keep up to date with our progress. [link]
Hi guys! I just put up some pictures from my trip to California in May. Just after the F2F! Enjoy.
Calling all DCistas! smonster and I will be in town this weekend, attending the Folklife Festival, and hanging out with meara. If anyone's going to be in town this weekend and wants to get together, feel free to email any of the three of us at our profile addys, or come into the F2F thread, where plans might maybe be made. We're meeting for brunch at 10:30 AM on Sunday at
Left Bank Bistro Lounge
2424 18th St NW, Washington, DC
(202) 464-2100
if anyone wants to join, and we'll be at Folklife seeing Corb Lund at 2 PM on Sunday and 4PM on Monday. Hope to see you!
The BF is editing a car site for About.com. Please stop by if you have a chance and leave a comment. His writing is good and every hit will impress his employers. [link]
If any of you have a 56K modem lying around that I could have for free or cheap please drop me a note.
Thanks
Chicagoistas: There's a Sondheim Music Festival (free!) in Grant Park this weekend for those who might be interested:
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So, we're moving, and we're trying to get rid of stuff. I just listed 40 books on half.com. Here's a link to my store: [link] If you want any of these books, please e-mail me at my profile address, and they're yours for the cost of media mail shipping.
Also, we have a few that didn't have ISBN numbers, so they couldn't be listed. These are up for grabs as well:
Michael Crichton, Three Complete Novels
Terry Pratchet, The Bromeliad
Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tips
Future Females: A Critical Anthology, Edited by Marlen S. Barr
White Book: 15 Postcards with Book
George H. Smith, Delta Doll
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. comes out on DVD on Tuesday July 18th. (Buffista Amazon link) Wiki for those who ask
