Placket Hole

With all that noise over my head, I wouldn't know a Dutch neck from a placket-hole. ❋ Harriet L. Smith (N/A)

Repeated rings at the bell at last brought out the woman in charge, her arms covered with soap-suds, and gown drawn through a placket-hole. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)

The open placket-hole and sagging waist-band, sketched in No. 45, is an all too familiar sight that advertises the fact that too few women take even a cursory look at their backs. ❋ Dorothy Quigley (N/A)

She is now too much absorbed in the war to waste time at her dressmakers or even to care whether her placket-hole is open or not. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

It would save us hours of anxiety could we look beyond her smiling face to her tail peeping out saucily from a placket-hole. ❋ Unknown (1893)

It is now quite six inches off the ground, and instead of fastening it I have to pin the placket-hole, and then it falls nearly right .... ❋ Unknown (1892)

One was fastened, as usual, round the waist; the masked head was passed through the placket-hole of the other. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Karikatur_, Fig. 92), represents an elegant young lady in a rococo garden-bower; she has been reading a book she has now just dropped, together with her sunshade; she leans languorously back, and her hand begins to find its way through her placket-hole. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

When Janice returned she caught up a loose lock of hair, and put the placket-hole of her skirt square in the middle of Aunt Mary’s back, and dared go no further. ❋ Anne Warner (1891)