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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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		<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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		<title>How to Sew a Gored Spanish Farthingale (Hoop Skirt)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-sew-a-gored-spanish-farthingale-hoop-skirt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-sew-a-gored-spanish-farthingale-hoop-skirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish Farthingale is a stiffened underskirt that gives Tudor and early Elizabethan skirts their characteristic conical shape. You can make a very passable one with a full length gored skirt pattern (either a commercial A-line skirt pattern, or one you draft yourself), a lot of ribbon or bias tape, and boning. A simple A-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shape Matters: Why the ultra-basic corset draft doesn’t work for every body.</title>
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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<title>The “Jiffy Pop” Hat</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-jiffy-pop-hat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this type of hat.  It's sort of the pimp-daddy of Elizabethan headwear, and I really think they should be more popular with rennies than they are.]]></description>
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		<title>The Floppy Pleated Cap</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-floppy-pleated-cap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-floppy-pleated-cap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a cute, easy little hat.  If, for some reason, you only wanted to learn one kind of hat for your 'bethan costuming, this would be it.  The shape of the hat really responds to the fabric it's made from - with a stiffer fabric, it has height and sophistication, and with a thinner fabric it's totally flopsy and common.]]></description>
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		<title>The Floppy Toque</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-floppy-toque/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/the-floppy-toque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a slightly untidy look that's great for characters who are a little down on their luck, generally dishevelled, countrified, or who generally wish to convey that &#34;aiming for fashion but missing&#34; appeal. ]]></description>
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