Help, Fashionistas and Sewers!
Can anyone tell me the proper name for those tieback thingies you often see on the backs of coats/jackets/vests/blouses/dresses? You know, the small strip of cloth, usually decorative, but sometimes structural, that theoretically nips in a little of the back part of the coat, around the waistline? It's not a belt, as it never circles around to the front, and most of the time doesn't even make it 180 degrees around. I'm using the placeholder "tieback" right now, but it's not an actual friggin' tie-back, as nothing is being tied back.
See it? See what I'm talking about?
So far, my Google-fu has come up empty, because you can't get much out of "coat tieback thingy" and I am basically without the vocabulary to find the vocabulary I'm looking for. (Read: It's impossible to google for a term if you don't have the faintest idea what the term is.) I have stumbled on bespoke morning coat guidelines; a diagram of how to tie a guy up properly; SIMs clothing mods; how to modify a vest to conceal weaponry; JGL in Inception, unhelpfully facing towards the camera; creepy ultra-conservative, anti-feminist blogs; diagrams of teeth, dogs, goats, and the digestive system; and one lone (but welcome) picture of Remington Steele, but even the legitimately related sites in all of that don't give any hint what that little strip of cloth is called. *sigh*
I just need to know what this one tiny thing is, so that this one tiny sentence in this giant fucking dissertation isn't wrong. Because it matters, that's why. *sobs*
ETA: Oh my fucking god, it's a "half-belt." Perfect name, yet I would never have guessed. *facepalm* Thank you, ladies! ♥
See it? See what I'm talking about?
So far, my Google-fu has come up empty, because you can't get much out of "coat tieback thingy" and I am basically without the vocabulary to find the vocabulary I'm looking for. (Read: It's impossible to google for a term if you don't have the faintest idea what the term is.) I have stumbled on bespoke morning coat guidelines; a diagram of how to tie a guy up properly; SIMs clothing mods; how to modify a vest to conceal weaponry; JGL in Inception, unhelpfully facing towards the camera; creepy ultra-conservative, anti-feminist blogs; diagrams of teeth, dogs, goats, and the digestive system; and one lone (but welcome) picture of Remington Steele, but even the legitimately related sites in all of that don't give any hint what that little strip of cloth is called. *sigh*
I just need to know what this one tiny thing is, so that this one tiny sentence in this giant fucking dissertation isn't wrong. Because it matters, that's why. *sobs*
ETA: Oh my fucking god, it's a "half-belt." Perfect name, yet I would never have guessed. *facepalm* Thank you, ladies! ♥