What do you call :

[LoftyLottie]

The area on a pair of trousers, pants, underpants or shorts where the two leg panels join together?

[wolf63]

crotch? gusset?

[joggerjayne]

Not gusset ?

[anneasquith]

why not gusset ?

[smudge]

Seam?

[whiskeryron]

crotchet ?

[smudge]

If you mean the crutch area, then crutch or gusset!

[joggerjayne]

No, I meant, like ... "Is it not the gusset?"

[rowanwitch]

sewing patterns call it the crotch thats good enough for me

[mightywease]

Crotch I'd say....though I do like the word gusset!

[LoftyLottie]

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.

[Bobbisox]

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) ;-)))

[funnygirl]

Both crotch and gusset!!

[anneasquith]

gusset sounds " nicer than crotch.

[rowanwitch]

gusset is an inserted fabric section usually in the crotch of a garment

[LoftyLottie]

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....................

[smudge]

Crutch is my endearment for crotch, I was only jesting!

[scotman]

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.

[anneasquith]

ladies pants................ can be purchased with or without gussets ! and before anyone says crotch..........................no :)