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		<title>What the Buske?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah posted a totally, fabulously, fantastically AMAZING bit of research based off Drea&#8217;s equally fabulously, fantastically AMAZING database of wardrobe warrants. (Seriously, is this the best time for a costumer to be alive or what?) Go read them both. I&#8217;ll wait till you&#8217;re done with with Sarah&#8217;s points about the &#8220;pair of busks&#8221; entries&#8230;. Ok, [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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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>Visual Guide to Corsets for the 1500s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a visual learner. I mean, I owned a copy of Patterns of Fashion for years before I ever looked at the words. (I&#8217;m not even kidding. Turns out the words are pretty useful too!) If you find yourself in the same boat, this might help. It&#8217;s a set of line drawings of the Pfalzgrafin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Proportions of the Effigy Corset</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! Let&#8217;s talk about something that makes my little costumer&#8217;s heart go pitter-patter: the Effigy Corset. I&#8217;ve had a major case of corset-brain lately (I think it&#8217;s a rebellion against that darned unfitted eleventh century thing), and I&#8217;ve been doing some research.  You know what&#8217;s annoying about the Effigy? I don&#8217;t have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Shape Matters: Why the Same Waist Curve Doesn&#8217;t Work for Every Body</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/more-shape-matters-why-the-same-waist-curve-doesnt-work-for-every-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had this horrible, recurring experience with some of my oldest costumes: I&#8217;d put a zillion hours worth of work into making something, right, and lace myself into a corset to make me skinnier, and put on enormous skirts that should have dwarfed my waistline, and the bodice and the yadda yadda, and, like, fifty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playin’ Around with the Pfalzgrafin Corset</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, that pesky Pfalzgrafin corset&#8230; It&#8217;s technically dated to 1598, by virtue of being found on the body of Pfalzgrafin Dorothea Sabina von Neuburg, who was buried then. It would be really-amazingly-super-conveneint if it was older, wouldn&#8217;t it? Seriously. I&#8217;ve really got an itch to do something from the middle of the 1500s. I&#8217;ve started [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Skirting the Issue: How to Draft Skirt Patterns</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/skirting-the-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much is there, really, to say about skirts? They&#8217;re pretty basic. I&#8217;ve never really been one to make patterns for skirts, because, well, I&#8217;m lazy, and it doesn&#8217;t take a rocket surgeon to whack out a rectangle. Somewhere back in the primordial fog of my early costuming experience, someone told me, &#8220;Gored skirts aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Building Blocks: an Imprecise History of Pattern Drafting</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/building-blocks-an-imprecise-history-of-pattern-drafting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/building-blocks-an-imprecise-history-of-pattern-drafting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My life, and probably yours, gentle reader, would be much simplified if, perchance, our predecessors of the fifteenth century had taken a few moments to write a book on their patterning practices.  Alas, they did not.  Nor did our predecessors of the sixteenth, seventeenth, or eighteenth centuries, gosh darn them.  I can&#8217;t tell you that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shape Matters: Why the ultra-basic corset draft doesn’t work for every body.</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made my first Elizabethan corset back in the dark ages of internet time, when it was still pretty common to ask Real Live Humans(tm) how to do things.  I got instructions that were relatively simple &#8211; a bust, a waist, divide by two, draw some lines, and presto-change-o, a corset pattern.  It&#8217;s the method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating the Alcega Farthingale for Modern Bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surviving pattern published in Juan de Alcega&#8217;s &#8216;Libro de Geometria, Practica y Traca&#8217;(1589) represents almost everything we know about the farthingale. Most articles on recreating the Alcega farthingale focus on faithfully reproducing the pattern based on fabric widths. Honestly, though, calling this a &#8220;pattern&#8221; is a bit of an overstatement: the book was more [...]]]></description>
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