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Knife pleat. Accordion pleats or knife pleats are a form of tight pleating which allows the garment to expand its shape when moving. Accordion pleating is also used for some dress sleeves, such as pleating the end of the elbow, with the fullness of the pleat gathered closely at the cuff.
Beene and Rowley employed harlequin prints in their fashion designs presented at spring fashion week in November 1996. [10]At the 2001 Ebony Fashion Fair designer Oscar de la Renta presented a multicolored harlequin print silk charmeuse gown with a skirt fashioned with accordion pleats and a halter top with a gold neck ring.
The dupatta is draped with the very top part of the middle of the dupatta tucked into the back of the chooridaar. The dupatta is folded accordion pleats at both ends, which are held in place on the left shoulder with a brooch. The free ends of the dupatta are worn under the right shoulder and over the inside of the right elbow.
Shirring is a decorative sewing technique that involves stitching together many rows of gathered fabrics. [1] Shirring reduces the size of the original fabric while adding texture to the resulting decorative fabric.
Pleating or plaiting is a type of gathering in which the folds are usually larger, made by hand and pinned in place, rather than drawn up on threads; however, very small pleats are often identical to evenly spaced gathers. Pleating is mainly used to make skirts, but can have other uses. (See main article Pleat.) [2]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has in its collection [3] four excellently preserved pleated linen dresses, all found in 1902-1903 by George A. Reisner at the cemetery of Naga ed-Deir in Egypt. [4] It is not known exactly how the Egyptians pleated linen, but the material may have been "folded, accordion style, then tied, and wetted." [5]
In knitting, pleats can be made in several ways. Mock pleats can be made by alternating stitches that tend to recede (such as purl or slip wyif ), stitches that lie flat (such as seed or plissé ) and stitches that tend to advance (such as knit and slip wyib ) along the backward fold, the flat face and the forward fold, respectively.
Pleated skirts were introduced and became the main feature of the upper-class women. [35]: 5 Song-style ruqun for women consisted of long narrow skirts and jackets which closes to the right. [44] These jackets could be worn over the narrow skirts; this form of ruqun existed in both the Liao dynasty and Song. [44]
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