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- For engineering gussets, see gusset plate.
In sewing, a gusset is a triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric inserted into a seam to add breadth or reduce stress from tight-fitting clothing. Gussets were used at the shoulders, underarms, and hems of traditional shirts and chemises made of rectangular lengths of linen to shape the garments to the body.[1][2]
Gussets are used in manufacturing of modern tights or pantyhose to add breadth at the crotch seam; these gussets are often made of breathable fabrics for hygiene when wearing pantyhose without underwear.
Gussets are also used when making 3-piece bags. In a Boye Needle Company publication titled "I taught myself to crochet", it is used in a pattern for a bag as a long, wide piece which connects the front piece and back piece. By becoming the sides and bottom of the bag, the gusset opens the bag up beyond what simply attaching the front to the back would do.
The term "don't bust a gusset" comes from this sewing term; a gusset in this context was usually a piece of fabric sewn between two others to increase mobility or increase the size of the pant waist, the latter being more common in the early 1900s.
Gusset is also an alternate spelling of gousset, a component of late Medieval armor which functions similarly.
[edit] References
- ^ Burnham, Dorothy, Cut My Cote, Royal Ontario Museum, 1973.
- ^ Sturm, Mary Mark (1973). Guide to modern clothing. Webster Division, McGraw-Hill. http://books.google.com/books?id=7q0vAAAAYAAJ&dq=editions:hq0vAAAAYAAJ.
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