Question for costumers

[sff_corgi_lj]

What would the fastening be called across the back of a jacket/coat/waistcoat which adjusts the waist fitting and usually consists of a short buckled strap?

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[selenesue.livejournal.com]

A quick swoop through Google shows me "back strap" and "adjust strap" if that helps.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

back strap is what the piece is labeled in my vest pattern. (Only pattern in my sewing box that has that piece.)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

you know, this gives me a nidea .if thereisn't alreday oen i'd liek to have or help someoen built a 'reverse dictionary' wherey ou put i na description or some keywords and it coems up with 'could you mean soandso'. unelss google does the job of course. but i'm far too often stuck with knowign a word i ndutch adn not havign a dutch-english dictioanry nearby to look it up.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

There SOOO needs to be a Crafter's Dictionary of Foreign Words And Phrases. "How often have you been humming nicely through a foreign language pattern and encountered the word 'Smeltzenlich'? You leap to your conventional dictionary, and discover that the word 'Smeltzenlich' either does not exist, or, even worse, means something completely inappropriate? With your handy new CDoFWAP, you can almost instantly learn that 'Smeltzenlich' is swiftly translated into a useful term!"
*My Example From Life is te Russian clothing word 'Port(bl)', which in the costuming reference means Trousers or Breeches, but which is translated in ALL the current russian-english dictionaries that I could find as Ports. or Harbors. or Doors. It could be an idiomatization of the fact that they had a front fly opening. I have no clue.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

heh...that 'sd hwo langauges invovle whe nthey run among people for a god few centuries.
i stil maintai nfrom what I've picked up there are a lto of foreign langauges who have mcuh more visual,poetic wordign of things. i coudl start aboutafrikaans for instance but that's only interesting if yo ualso know Dutch.