placket

Next row (RS) Work Right Placket patt (see Stitch Guide) over 6 sts, pm, work in K2, P2 rib to last 2 sts, sl 2.

"Just two weeks ago, I went online and fully designed a dress shirt, with a custom printed pattern set into the collar, cuffs and placket. I was able to choose from more than a dozen special design features and see the shirt rendering as I was making the changes, all of which cost less than $100.1 received my shirt yesterday and it is a very high quality dress shirt.

Original Penguin bandana print shirt was PS60, now PS30, House of Fraser, houseoffraser.co.uk Jacamo Pacific print shirt was PS22, now PS10.25, Fashion World, fashionworld.co.uk J.Lindberg Daniel hibiscus print shirt PS90, Harvey Nichols, harveynichols.com Blue Inc green patterned grandad shirt PS16.99, blueinc.co.uk Pure cotton striped shirt PS19.50, Marks and Spencer, marksandspencer.com Tu at Sainsbury's pink stripe linen shirt, PS14 Blue and white spotted shirt PS26, Burton Printed short sleeve shirt PS10, George at Asda, direct.asda.com Mamey Hawaiian print short sleeve shirt PS42.50, Charlie Chino shorts PS39.95, White FOLK half placket shirt PS125, Flannels, flannels.com

| TRY: Finery Westbourne asymmetric placket shirt in mixed check, PS59 (finerylondon.com) THE LONG GAME Shirt dresses are nothing new but this season they resemble a Wolf Of Wall Street dress code, with contrast cuffffffs and bold stripes.

| TRY: Finery Westbourne asymmetric placket shirt in mixed check, PS59 (finerylondon.com) THE ANTI-SHIRT SHIRT TAKE away all the traditional elements of a shirt - shoulders, collar, cuffs - and what do you have?

In Rebecca McClanahan's "Sad Iron, Glad Iron," the act of pressing shirts becomes incantatory: "Iron and sing, iron and sing, the world falls away, placket and pleat, collar and yoke, ruffle and pocket, bodice and sleeve.

Placket TP et al in a study of 631 cases of paediatric traumatic brain injury for which CT head was done observed that CT scan was normal in 63% of the cases, skull fracture (non-displaced) in 7% of the cases and 30% has an intracranial haemorrhage or displaced skull fracture.

In Czech's photograph, this image coincides with the placket and collar point of a blouse.

Island Placket jumper, WAS PS60, NOW PS36, French Connection.

Island Placket jumper, WAS [pounds sterling]60, NOW [pounds sterling]36, French Connection.

From former ladette to placket. And if you think that's one obscure sewing term too far, you're darn right.

Serge uni, cotton blouson, and polo shirt with nylon placket.

quiet sophistication, subtle detail, a refined classic look, contrast stitch "bar–tack"– shaped placket, wide flat piping detail.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE (BBC2, Tuesday, 8pm) THEY'VE shown they can make everything from nightgowns to coats, they've handled fabrics ranging from leather to silk, and thanks to the vintage blouse challenge, they and presenter Claudia Winkelman, left, now know what a placket is.