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In clothing and similar applications, a gore is a triangular or trapezoidal piece of a textile as might be used in shaping a garment to fit contours of the body.
The word is derived from Old English gār, meaning spear. In the course of time the word came to be used for a piece of cloth used in making clothes.[1] In dressmaking and hatmaking, it refers to triangular or rhomboid pieces of fabric which are combined to create a fuller three dimensional effect. In knitting gloves and mittens, a "thumb gore" is often incorporated from the wrist part way to the tip of the thumb to accommodate the gradually increasing width of the hand.
The part of a bra that links the two bra cups is called the "centre gore".[2]
- ^ Skeat, Walter William (1901). A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 218.
- ^ Kemp-Griffin, Kathryn (2017). Paris Undressed: The Secrets of French Lingerie. Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781952535901.