Placket

Placket

A placket is an opening in a garment or the overlapping layers of fabric that cover or disguise such an opening. Plackets provide support for (or hide) fasteners such as buttons, snaps, or a zipper. Plackets are almost always used to facilitate putting on or taking off the garment, but are sometimes used as a design element as well (non-functional design purposes).

In modern usage, the term "placket" usually refers to the centre-front of a button-front shirt. Plackets can also be found at the neckline of a shirt, the cuff of a sleeve, or at the waist of a skirt or pair of trousers.

Plackets are almost always made of more than one layer of fabric, and often have interfacing in between the fabric layers. This is done to give support and strength to the placket fabric because the placket and the fasteners on it are often subjected to stress when the garment is worn. The two sides of the placket often overlap. This is done to protect the wearer from fasteners rubbing against their skin and to hide underlying clothing or undergarments.

A button front shirt without a separate placket is called a "French Front." If the buttons are covered, it is called a fly front, whether the shirt has a placket or French front.

Historically, a placket or placard may also be:

*A decorative front-panel used to fill in the opening of a doublet or gown (later called a stomacher).
*A decorative panel or forepart attached to a woman's petticoat.
*An opening or slit in a skirt or petticoat to access a separate hanging pocket.

References

*OED
*Mikhaila, Ninya: "The Tudor Tailor: reconstructing sixteenth-century dress", ISBN 0-89676-255-6


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  • Placket — Plack et, n. [F. plaquer to lay or clap on. See {Placard}.] 1. A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • placket — ► NOUN 1) an opening in a garment, covering fastenings or for access to a pocket. 2) a flap of material used to strengthen such an opening. ORIGIN from PLACARD(Cf. ↑placard) in an obsolete sense «garment worn under an open coat» …   English terms dictionary

  • placket — [plak′it] n. [prob. altered < PLACARD, in obs. sense “breastplate, top of skirt”] 1. a finished slit with a fastener, as at the waist of a skirt or collar of a shirt, to make it easy to put on and take off 2. Archaic a) a pocket, esp. in a… …   English World dictionary

  • placket — noun /ˈplækɪt/ a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings , 1922: Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt. James Joyce, Ulysses …   Wiktionary

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  • placket hole — placket hole, 1. an opening to give access to a pocket in a skirt. 2. = placket. (Cf. ↑placket) …   Useful english dictionary

  • placket hole — Placket Plack et, n. [F. plaquer to lay or clap on. See {Placard}.] 1. A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • placket-hole — noun see placket 2a * * * plackˈet hole noun (archaic) A slit in a skirt • • • Main Entry: ↑placket …   Useful english dictionary

  • placket — noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1605 1. a. a slit in a garment (as a skirt) often forming the closure b. archaic a pocket especially in a woman s skirt 2. archaic a. petticoat b. woman …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • placket — /plak it/, n. 1. the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off. 2. a pocket, esp. one in a woman s skirt. 3. Archaic. a. a petticoat. b. a woman. [1595 1605; var. of placard… …   Universalium

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