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LoftyLottie | 15:28 Tue 08th Mar 2011 | ChatterBank
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The area on a pair of trousers, pants, underpants or shorts where the two leg panels join together?
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Avatar Image wolf63
crotch? gusset?
15:29 Tue 08th Mar 2011
Avatar Image joggerjayne
Not gusset ?
15:29 Tue 08th Mar 2011
Avatar Image anneasquith
why not gusset ?
15:30 Tue 08th Mar 2011
Avatar Image smudge
Seam?
15:31 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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crotchet ?
15:32 Tue 08th Mar 2011
Avatar Image smudge
If you mean the crutch area, then crutch or gusset!
15:32 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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No, I meant, like ... "Is it not the gusset?"
15:32 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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sewing patterns call it the crotch thats good enough for me
15:32 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Crotch I'd say....though I do like the word gusset!
15:32 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Well I have just done a review for some trousers on the M&S website where I described the length from 'crotch' to waistline and it got rejected for using the word 'crotch'!! I took out the word and just said 'body length' and it got accepted.

How very stupid!!!

AB obviously doesn't think 'crotch' is a rude word.
15:33 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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I would say crotch LL when Bill has had a drink and insists on listening to his 'heavy stuff'
I always reckon , he plays his crotch (air guitar) ;-)))
15:34 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Both crotch and gusset!!
15:35 Tue 08th Mar 2011
Avatar Image anneasquith
gusset sounds " nicer than crotch.
15:37 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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gusset is an inserted fabric section usually in the crotch of a garment
15:40 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Yes I agree Rowan. We both obviously have sewn garments in our time.

A crotch is a crotch is a crotch!!

Stupid M&S. I know it can be used rudely, but....................
15:42 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Crutch is my endearment for crotch, I was only jesting!
15:43 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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crotch is probably the more technically correct term..

crotch noun (crotches) 1 (also crutch) a the place where the body or a pair of trousers forks into the two legs; b the human genital area. 2 the fork of a tree.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: variant of crutch.

gusset noun, dressmaking a piece of material sewn into a garment for added strength or to allow for freedom of movement, eg at the crotch. gussetting noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c: from French gousset.
15:44 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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ladies pants................ can be purchased with or without gussets ! and before anyone says crotch..........................no :)
15:48 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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