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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>How to Draft Gored Skirts for Period Costumes</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/download/how-to-draft-gored-skirts-for-period-costumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/download/how-to-draft-gored-skirts-for-period-costumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individual Garments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pattern Drafting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patterning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skirts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for a way to draft gored skirts for your costumes, this is the eBook for you. The method shown is one I&#8217;ve worked out over the years, in an attempt to find a possibly period way to create a gored skirt. The instructions can be easily adapted to create a pattern using [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual Garments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tudor]]></category>

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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>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>

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		<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>Cheat Sheet for Alcega Farthingale Hoop Sizes</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/download/cheat-sheet-for-alcega-farthingale-hoop-sizes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/download/cheat-sheet-for-alcega-farthingale-hoop-sizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individual Garments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pattern Drafting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Cheats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this a little while back.  It&#8217;s simply a chart of hoop sizes to mimic the  shape and angle of the Alcega farthingale.  The chart is indexed by waist size and waist to ground measurement.  The full story of all the maths used to create this chart is available here.This file used to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything I Know About&#8230;. 16th Century Support Skirts</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-support-skirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-support-skirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a research paper I did a while back. The paper itself is 40 pages and covers 4 centuries of support skirts and corsetry. I figure it&#8217;s more digestible in smaller chunks. Please note: my regularly scheduled writing style has been suspended in favor of something more palatable to the hardcore [...]]]></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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		<title>Playing Dress-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/playing-dress-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/playing-dress-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costumes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1500s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corsetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support Skirts]]></category>

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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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