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Placket

Meaning in fashion & textiles, with examples

/ˈplækɪt/nounCommon term

In fashion & textiles, placket means: A strip of fabric that finishes an opening in a garment, usually holding the buttons or buttonholes, as on a polo shirt or shirt sleeve.

In Turkish: pat, ön pat, kol patı

How it is used

Shirts have a front placket and sleeve plackets; polo shirts have a short placket with two or three buttons. A hidden placket covers the buttons for a clean look. Tech packs give the placket length, width and number of buttons.

Example sentences

  1. The polo placket should be 14 cm long with two buttons.

  2. The placket is twisting; please check the interfacing.

Common collocations

  • front placket
  • sleeve placket
  • hidden placket
  • placket length
  • polo placket
  • collarThe band or folded piece of fabric attached around the neckline of a shirt, jacket or coat, which can stand up or fold down.
  • cuffThe band at the end of a sleeve that finishes it at the wrist, often fastened with a button; in American English also the turned-up hem of trousers.
  • interfacingA layer of material placed between the outer fabric and the facing, often ironed on, to make parts like collars, cuffs and plackets firmer.
  • trimsAll the materials used on a garment apart from the main fabric, such as buttons, zips, labels, thread, elastic, tape and hangtags.

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