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"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... G'day duh who! 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. But once you've got a clear idea of *why* they're constructed the way they are, it makes them a lot easier. I've done them, probably 10 of them. I'm just TIRED of them. Also, it is a good bit easier to make the placket before sewing the sleeve seam. I do. Thanks for the pointers though. I guess I'm paying the price for preferring long sleeve shirts. |
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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. ======== Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce ======== Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. I've always wanted to know how the rest of that canary song went... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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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... snip Oh! ROTFL!!! Guffaw! I'd forgotten that! How appropriate, though! It was very clever of you to think of it! Heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee! '...hand out of plackets' indeed! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Here's my offering: There once was a man with a placket 'twas harder to make than a racquet He folded and pressed Held it close to his breast And fin'ly decided to whack it! (er - the placket!) -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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"Auntie Mary Hid a Canary Up the Leg of her Drawers" I've always wanted to know how the rest of that canary song went... There's doesn't seem to be much to it in any version, though there are a heck of a lot of variants. To see what some awesomely good scholars have to say about it, read... http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11873#90486 ======== Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce ======== Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. |
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