What is a placket in sewing. A placket is an opening in a shirt, trousers, skirts or any other type of garment is allows the user to put the garment on. The placket opens. It usually has buttons to hold the placket down. In a shirt it is down the front and at the end of the sleeve. The illustration on the right shows a placket in a shirt sleeve.
I have been known to write the wrong placket (placard) which is of course a sign.
What is a placket in sewing
A placket can be unpicked and replaced when a shirt sleeve is shortened, however this is a time consuming alteration, therefore the customer needs to be prepared to pay the extra it costs to perform the alteration.
There is an alternative which is to unpick the cuff and cut the amount being shortened from the placket and then replacing the cuff.
When pinning the cuff back on, the pins should always be through the original stitch line and should be pinned so that when the sleeve is placed over the arm of the machine, the pins will be pulled out towards you. Therefore pinning begins on the section of the cuff that is on the top (usually has the buttonhole).
Pin the cuff to this section then move around to the opposite end and place another pin. Work BACKWARDS towards the start, until you come to the section with the pleats. Fold the pleats (usually 2.5 cm (1 in) fold in half. It takes two to three pleats.
Check the fabric is inserted into the cuff enough. Check the pins and sew the cuff back on stitching into the original stitch line.
Happy altering
Judith aka genie