Patterns for All Bodies (PfAB) re-patterns garments from the Dress Collection at Agnes.
In doing so, PfAB brings to life the historical process of dress construction and self-fashioning, paying homage to the origins of the Dress Collection while animating it for the present and future. The patterns are available for free download so that any body can make the clothes, or have the clothes made, for their own body. As part of PfAB, local drag artists re-envision and re-inhabit individual garments. Showing us how it can be done.
Peruse the Historical, the Technical, and the Fabulous through PfAB. Dive into the individual patterns and individualized garments, both historical and new. An ongoing project, PfAB will add new patterns, performances and resources over the years. Share your own re-creations!
From community to museum, and now museum back to community, the Dress Collection sashays out into the world in ways not previously imagined with museum collections.
Content contributors: Alicia Boutilier, Dare de LaFemme, Carolyn Dowdell, Jessica Endress, Charlotte Gagnier, M. Elaine MacKay, Marissa Monette, Tyffanie Morgan, Sarah Oatley, Julia Popsin-Gomes, Rowena Whey
Dress historians/Patternmakers: Carolyn Dowdell, M. Elaine MacKay
Dressmakers/Pattern developers: Jessica Dykins, Julia Popsin-Gomes
Conservator: Marissa Monette
Digital development coordinator: Danuta Sierhuis
Editor: Alicia Boutilier
Photographer: Bernard Clark
Videographer: Jay Middaugh
Audio: Tyffanie Morgan, Danuta Sierhuis
Graphic design: Vincent Perez
Web design: Studio Blackwell (Kelsey Blackwell with Jessica Atkinson and Jonathan Gallivan)
Patterns for All Bodies is an online exhibition and project produced by Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Artists: Dare de LaFemme, Tyffanie Morgan, Rowena Whey
Curator: Alicia Boutilier
Supported by Bader Philanthropies.
