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		<title>Das Über-Bustle</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/das-uber-bustle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/das-uber-bustle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie's Early Bustle Gown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Cheats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1800s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bustle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pool Noodles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I made a sedate little dress with just a teensy hint of a bustle for Stephanie last fall to go under this here little blue dress. By &#8220;a teensy little bustle&#8221;, I mean something that sticks out roughly 24&#8243; behind her. You know, no bigs&#8230; So what&#8217;s going on under there? First off, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Corsetry: Are we making too many assumptions?</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/early-corsetry-are-we-making-too-many-assumptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/early-corsetry-are-we-making-too-many-assumptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pfalzgrafin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing a lot with the Pfalzgrafin corset lately. One of the things I said in the original post was that this type of corset is rather uncomfortably on bodies that aren&#8217;t relatively straight, and is a total failure on more extreme hourglass shapes. But I wanted to make it work on Tyler, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you Reproduce the Alcega Farthingale Pattern?</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-do-you-reproduce-the-alcega-farthingale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-do-you-reproduce-the-alcega-farthingale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempstress.org/?p=3373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m totally obsessed with the Alcega farthingale. I mean, I&#8217;m always a little obsessed with it, because it&#8217;s sort of the great rock candy mountain for costumers, right? But I&#8217;ve been working on an eBook about drafting gored skirts for period costumes, and I thought I&#8217;d throw in a little bit of a redraft for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You say &#8220;yard waste&#8221;, I say &#8220;free, eco-friendly corset boning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Cheap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I was out trimming the privet hedge the other day, like you do (she says, sounding perfectly British about the whole thing) when I stopped to think, &#8220;Gee, I wonder if I could bone a corset with some of these clippings?  I should give that a try&#8230;&#8221;  So I did. Now, it&#8217;s worth noting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison of Different Boning Materials for Use in Sixteenth Century Corsetry</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patterning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempstress.org/?p=2556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[File this one under &#8220;possibly useful to some one, at some time, somehow&#8221;: this is a series of pictures of corsets I&#8217;ve made over the last several years. Each one shows me standing in profile, next to my dress dummy. This makes the changes in my shape imposed by each corset fairly obvious, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>You can dye with frosting paste colors&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/you-can-dye-with-frosting-paste-colors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/you-can-dye-with-frosting-paste-colors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costuming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but only if you really like pink. Mom and I were in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago, and we stopped in to a fab little yarn shop called Just 4 Ewe. The owner, Jan, enthusiastically shared enough fiber tips and tricks to send my brain into complete and happy overload (while her dog, just as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reverse Leather Applique</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/reverse-leather-applique/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/reverse-leather-applique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embellishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sewing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ In case there was any doubt in anyone's mind, I love working 
  with leather. I think it can add a very sophisticated touch to a costume, and, 
  let's face it, the number of people who do leather work is limited. I've been 
  wanting to try the rev...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Curved Front Corset</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/curved-front-corset/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/curved-front-corset/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patterning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a while back that most of the bodices in Alcega's 
  book and several other period tailor's books show a slight backwards S curve 
  at the front edge. That seemed like it would accommodate the bust and belly 
  a little, and I was feeling ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Corded Effigy Corset</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/corded-effigy-corset/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/corded-effigy-corset/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costuming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a corded effigy style corset. The idea of using cording 
  instead of a more normal boning belongs to Jen, who did a lot of research in 
  that direction in the course of her  
  Italien dress. The pattern for this corset more closely follows...]]></description>
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		<title>Corded Petticoat</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/corded-petticoat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/corded-petticoat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a corded petticoat, meant to be worn in place
of a farthingale under middle class costumes.  The base of the skirt is
cheap cotton broadcloth, and it is stiffened with 3.8" cotton upholstery
cord filling held in a channels created with 1" wid...]]></description>
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