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[_tove]

bblum was at my house the other day, and asked a question about a sewing project I was working on. I said "It's a dart. It's a way of controlling fullness. Wait, that's jargony and not helpful to you..." and then explained in a (hopefully) more enlightening way. But it occurred to me last night that the fuller explanation is not actually that

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[infryq]

o_o You have just revolutionized my understanding of princess seams! This is awesome.

[_tove]

Ha, sweet. I was actually going to specifically call out princess seams as being in the "just two darts that have run into each other" category, but then I figured I'd have to explain what princess seams were. :)

[kepod]

I am imagining a folk tale that starts with "two darts that have run into each other" and ends with "princess seams," and so far I think it involves magic scissors.

[bubblingbeebles]

is that somehow different from the plain old "seam" diagram you showed?

[_tove]

Princess seams are the specific case of the depicted seam when it is placed over the boobs for a dress or blouse. They either go pretty much vertically or veer off into the armhole with the former being what I think of as more canonical but the latter getting way more results in the first page of the google image search, so what do I know.