If you’re looking for a way to banish the winter blues and keep warm and cosy without bundling up head over to the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place for Toronto’s Vintage Clothing Show this weekend (March 7 & 8). There’s a wealth of stalls with incredible vintage and retro fashion. Who knows? You might even find a great coat to help you bundle up elegantly against the snow, wind and ice! For more details visit the Toronto Vintage Clothing Show...
Check out our museum exhibitions and events pages for a wealth of dress related activity this winter. It includes four days left to see the Street Style exhibition at Waterloo Regional Museum while The Politics of Fashion runs at the Toronto Design Exchange until the end of January. For dance fans there’s Queen Charlotte’s Ball on January 17 while at the Bata Shoe Museum there are two shoe making...
The annual meeting of the CSO will take place at a familiar venue, the Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Street [ just south of Dundas, east of University Avenue ]. The museum is easily accessible by transit and parking is located nearby. Come out and hear the latest news, reconnect with friends and fellow members and join in the delightful discovery of fashion and costume in all their various forms and discuss the impact on society and vice versa of clothing through the ages. We are pleased to announce that a number of the present Board, whose terms are up, have agreed to stand for re-election. While these...
The Fashion History Museum, run by Jonathan Walford and Kenn Norman has found a new home in a Cambridge former post office building, with funding from Arts Connect Cambridge and hopes to open in fall 2015. For more details visit the article in The...
The ROM has a great range of fashion activities this fall: Fashion for Real Life, 7 October 2014, 7pm Iconic fashion journalist Jeanne Beker hosts world-renown Canadian designer Izzy Camilleri, Toronto based writer and nationally recognized advocate Barbara Turnbull, and structural engineer and co-founder of Stop-Gap Foundation Luke Anderson, as they explore the impact of adaptive design on the world of fashion and beyond. This event is in support of the exhibition Fashion Follows Form: Designs for Sitting, which invites us all to think critically about the relationship between function and fashion in our daily lives. for more details and pricing visit the ROM website Adult course Fashion: the Evolution of...
Babes and Bathers – the history of the swimsuit at Vancouver Maritime Museum There’s a wonderful selection of dress and textiles exhibitions on display this summer in Toronto, Ontario and beyond! The Royal Ontario Museum has just opened Fashion Follows Form: Design for Sitting which explores the fascinating and challenging issue of designing clothing for wheelchair users and reveals the history of functional design that grounds this work. Also on display are early Islamic Textiles in the exhibition Cairo Under Wraps. The Bata Shoe Museum presents Fashion Victims – the Perils and Pleasures of Dress in the 19th century which examines the darker side of fashionable dress in the...
For all those who love a good costume sale there’s a great one coming up in Toronto this Saturday, 31 May 2014 9am-5pm. Don’t miss Toronto’s biggest and best sale featuring over 30 vendors selling a range of items from contemporary and vintage clothing to accessories used in some of your favourite film and television productions shot in and around Toronto as well as a selection of new clothing, handcrafted goods, samples, wardrobe supplies, and more! Pinewood Toronto Studios located at 225 Commissioners Avenue in Toronto will host our 13th Movie Wardrobe Sale! $5 admission at door Free for CAFTCAD Members, Children and Seniors. There is an ABM on...
Need a little bit of creativity to encourage a spring feeling? Go to our CSO activities page for details of our Fascinating Fascinators workshop which will be held in Toronto on Saturday May...