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		<title>Tolkien-Inspired Wedding Dress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a very lucky girl. You know why? Because I&#8217;ve had some absolutely amazing clients in my life. (Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I&#8217;ve had the other kind, too. I just try not to focus on those.) I&#8217;ve just had the most life-affirming September/October I can remember. I had not just one, but three fantastically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regency Corset Finished</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, there, ho, there, everybody&#8230; Gosh I love being out of bed before 7.30! It makes me feel like I can take on the world! In a championship napping contest, that is. But the interwebs was totally not cooperating last night, and I wanted to share finished pics of the regency corset before I head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabethan Croquis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Croquis are little pre-drawn bodies used by fashion designers to speed up the sketching and design process.  I made this one with Em and a basic 1500s silhouette. A lot of people have been coming to the site lately and being really great to me, and I wanted to do something as a thank-you. Em&#8217;s [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>Rose Green Lower Middle Class (2001)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/rose-green-lower-middle-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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I had meant this to be a peasant gown, but I'm told that it 
  is not because it does not look "peasanty" enough. I'm not entirely positive 
  of what that means, but I've been trying not to quibble details lately. ;) It's 
  suitable as the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Irish(ish) Peasant Dress (2001)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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It's Irish... sorta. Actually, it's what happens when your friendly 
  neighborhood sempstress gets a weird bug up her butt, and tries to overcome 
  the stress of having too many projects to sew by ... well, by deciding to sew 
  something el...]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Dress-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/playing-dress-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[








With the help of my lovely assistant, Janey (currently seen 
  modeling my absolutely excellent "Henchwoman" shirt (thanks, lynn!)), this article 
  will fulfill a need that does not exist (because drea already wrote the article 
  on it, b...]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Noble, with Safeguard and Jerkin (2001)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/gold-noble-with-safeguard-and-jerkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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Finally, pictures of the finished dress from the most recent 
  diary of a work in progress. The gold 
  part is the underdress. The cherry part is a safeguard and jerkin. (There was 
  not a safeguard and jerkin in the original plan...]]></description>
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		<title>Ivanovich, The Russian Magician (2002)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/ivanovich-the-russian-magician/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/ivanovich-the-russian-magician/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Ivanovich is a magician 
  who has worked the Bristol Faire on and off (and, hopefully, will be back on 
  again next year -- he does a fantastic show). He's also a good friend, and was 
  significantly more of a joy to work with than I was th...]]></description>
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		<title>Costume for Nicolas Hilliard (2002)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/costume-for-nicolas-hilliard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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    I had the rather great privilege of getting involved in a costume-for-portrait 
  trade with the fellow who plays Nicolas Hilliard, who happens to be a fantastic 
  artist in real life. This is ...]]></description>
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