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Pick up to 5 terms. Seeing them next to each other is the fastest way to learn the difference.
Button placket
A strip of fabric holding a row of buttons down the front.
Pleats
Fabric folded and pressed into crisp repeating folds.
Slit
An opening cut up from the hem for movement or reveal.
Boning
Stiff vertical channels sewn into a bodice to hold its shape.
Drawstring
Cord threaded through a channel to cinch an opening.