So I made a sedate little dress with just a teensy hint of a bustle for Stephanie last fall to … More
Tag: Support Skirts
How to Draft Gored Skirts for Period Costumes
If you’re looking for a way to draft gored skirts for your costumes, this is the eBook for you. The … More
How to Sew a Gored Spanish Farthingale (Hoop Skirt)
The Spanish Farthingale is a stiffened underskirt that gives Tudor and early Elizabethan skirts their characteristic conical shape. You can … More
How do you Reproduce the Alcega Farthingale Pattern?
I’m totally obsessed with the Alcega farthingale. I mean, I’m always a little obsessed with it, because it’s sort of … More
Cheat Sheet for Alcega Farthingale Hoop Sizes
I wrote this a little while back. It’s simply a chart of hoop sizes to mimic the shape and angle … More
Everything I Know About…. 16th Century Support Skirts
This is an excerpt from a research paper I did a while back. The paper itself is 40 pages and … More
Corded Petticoat
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…
Playing Dress-Up
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…