bogus address wrote:

I was thinking: why don't you get hold of a bit of calico (muslin?)
and do a practice placket? I won't argue with you: they *are* hard
to do, especially the first time.

Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of
silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot
out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen
from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.

- Edgar in _King Lear_, Act III, scene iv

I take it he isn't talking about plackets in sleeves...

There is also a 17th century song "Joan's Placket is Torn" (goes
to a tune much like "The Cock of the North" a.k.a. "Auntie Mary Hid
a Canary Up the Leg of her Drawers") and I think we can assume the
placket that met with said mishap was in a different place too.

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