GB2375471A

GB2375471A - Pencil-skirt made of holographic material

Info

Publication number: GB2375471A
Application number: GB0123594A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Richard Benedict Gillon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2001-05-18
Filing date: 2001-10-02
Publication date: 2002-11-20
Also published as: GB0123594D0

Abstract

A pencil skirt made of holographic material that constantly changes colour as it is worn. The holographic material may be sequined or be diamond-studded and hand-washable in lukewarm water. Preferably the skirt is reversible, with a zip and button and button-hole on one of the side seams of the skirt. The skirt may be used with a belt which may contain laser sources to illuminate the skirt.

Description

A Pencil-skirt made of Holographic Material Description This invention of mine relates to a pencil-skirt made of holographic material that is sequined and diamond-studded so that it can give out three-dimensional airborn images and airborn beams as well as constantly changing colour. The skirt has a matching belt which carries suitable small laser sources and objects that emit the light onto the rest of the skirt so that the skirt can give off its air-born three-dimensional images and air-born beams of of light. But first, it will be necessary for me to define what I mean by the term"Pencil-skirt". To do this, I would need to give a brief history of the Pencil Skirt, its origins, and mention of their designs.

A) The origins of this skirt before the invention of the holographic skirt Here, I shall define a pencil-skirt as being a tight skirt of any length or design. Consequently, pencil-skirts are wellknown to have been worn by Ancient Egyptian women, forgotten about, and then worn by American and European women during the First World War as a means of war-time economy. They were of "maxi-skirt"length. During the Second World War, shorter skirt versions of this were worn by lots of European and American women: they were of"midi-skirt"length. In 1946, during the "New Look", they came well into fashion and were usually of plain grey in colour. The original plain greyness of twentieth century pencil-skirts was probably a result of the lack of dyes available during war-time. During post-war years, grey was thought to be a good idea as it went well with any colour top.

As the post second-world war decades progressed, more colourful variants of the pencil-skirt came into being. Then, in the mid-1960's, design variants came into being following the introduction of the Mini-Skirt into fashion. Consequently, there are several different types of pencil-skirt designs.

Type 1) The Reversible Pencil-Skirt Please see diagram 1 on the illustrations sheets. This skirt is tight, seamless at the front, seamless at the back, and has only one seam at each side where two pieces of material have been sewn together to make the skirt. At the top of the skirt, there is a petersham which is a strong band over which a belt of matching material is folded. Towards the top of the skirt (towards the waist) are darts or stitchings that attractively give the skirt shape such that the skirt is narrower at the waist than at the hips.

AL the base of the skirt is the hem at where the material is folded for the sake of tidyness. It's about an inch of material which is blind-stitched onto the main body of material it's been folded against. Please see diagram 2 which illustrates what I mean.

At the side of the skirt is a zip that goes about six inches from the waist towards the hip. The zip partly opens and closes the skirt so that the woman can put the skirt on, keep it on, turn it round, or unzip it, and take it off.

A button and button-hole at the waist supplement the use of the zip so that the zip doesn't come undone unlecessaril).

The skirt has no slits and no pleats. There are the aboveknee-length edition, the knee-length edition, the just-be) ow knee-length edition, the calf-length edition, and the anklelength editi. on of this type of pencil-skirt.

Some skirts have beft-holders at the watst so that a leather or plastic belt can be threaded through and can be fixed to itself so as to add firmness to the skirt's ability to be kept on while being worn. The belt is pleasing to the eye and gives

the skirt all impression of completeness to the spectator.

The skirLs may be made of Jersey wooj, polyester, t cryione, worsted, wool, or any other fabric : sometimes even cotton.

Type 2) The Reversible skirt with a scam and slit at the base of the front, a seam and slit at the base of the back, and a seam at each side. Otherwise, as in type 1.

Type 3) As in type 1 except that there is a s) it at the base of one or both sides of the skirt.

Type p This is seamless at the front. As in type I except that there is a seam down the centre of the back of the skirt and a slit at the base of that seam.

In earlier versions of type 4, eg in 1954, a sqaure of matching material would disctretely hide the woman's legs as

shown in diagram 3. Please see diagram 3.

Occasionally, the lower part of the kick-pleat would sway diversely from side to side while the fair lady of the 1950's would walk briskly : intermittently, a bit of leg would show through that slit.

Type 5) The Pencil skirt with the Knife-Pleat at the Back As in type 1, it is seamless at the front, but as in type 4, there is a seam down the centre at the back. At the base of that seam is an oblique slit called a knife-pleat: please see diagrams 4 (a), 4 (b), and 4 (c).

Type 6) Last, but not least, there is the pencil-skirt that has a fan-pleat at the back. Exactly like type 4 except that there is a fan-pleat instead of a kick-pleat. Wearing it was fashionable in some parts of the 1950's, 1960's, and 1980's.

Diagram 5 on the illustrations sheets shows what a fan-pleat looks like.

Preferences While the pencil-skirt with the fan-pleat at the back strikes me as being my favourite design-type of pencil-skirt, I feel that this design is only appropriate for the colours of plaingrey, plain jade, and plain scarlet. I also personally find that the type 1 reversible skirt of above knee-length is the only design appropriate for the holographic pencil-skirt. At the same time, I do acknowledge that this may be just a matter of taste: I don't rule out all the other skirt-designs being made of holographic material, but I feel that the tightness and seamlessness of a skirt would help to maximize the holographic skirt. Hence, my preference for type 1.

B) Material : The skirt is made of holographic material and is of type 1 design as defined above. Holographic material is fabric that interferes with a beam of white light so that the white light is resolved into its component colours. A stricter definition, however, would be as follows :-"in three dimensions formed by the interference of a light-beam from a coherent light source." Holography was invented by Dennis Gabor in 1948, but only became practicable when the laser was invented in 1960. To make a hologram, you have to split laser light into two beams, of which one is reflected from an object. The two beams are then recombined. The beauty of this is, the reflected light is no longer coherent, and as a result, the two beams interfere to produce a pattern of dark and bright areas which can be photographically recorded as a hologram. Thus, a three dimensional image of the object can be constructed from the

interference pattern by illuminating it with a laser-beam.

But while this is going on, however, the hologram will also disperse white light into its spectrum of component colours.

My material is out to take advantage of both the loose and strict

definitions of the term"holographic".

C) The Holographic Pencil-Skirt Itself This skirt, made oi holographic mater-ial,. is an above kneelength reversible pencil skirt of type 1 design as mentioned above. It is similar in design to the mini. reversible tight skirt often worn by women in the UK at the turn of the 1910 ! s decade.

Thisskirtconstantlychangescolourwhilebeingwornby the woman owing to the relentless change of angle between the surface and light beam resolving the spectrum of white light into different component colours. This alone would make the skirt eye-catching enough.

! 0 maKe it even more eyt-'-cabing, howevci, iL ould need to be made of a holographic sequined diamond-studded cloth as It would constantly create air-born images and beams as well as change colour all the time. Of course, a belt with suitable

; iii i I I (J i s c r e t e I v 1) 1-c s e ri t e d o b j e c-t--a ii d-1,, i s c, r--i r- (--e i ii c (, (I c ci small discretely presented object-and-laser-sources) s needed to start Lhis off. See diagrams 6 and 7.

Key to Illustrations: 1 Petersham for the waist 2 Zip at one side 3 Darts 4 Hem 5"Type 1"skirt 6 Petersham 7 Blind-stitching of folded material onto itself 8 Hem 9 Skirt turned inside out 10 Seam 11 Line A 12 Inverted kick-pleat concealed and hanging from line A 13"Type 4"skirt 14 Back of"type 5"skirt 15 Waist/Petersham 16 Seam 17 Knife-pleat 18 Material of this side of the skirt is folded over into the interior of the skirt and blind-stitched onto itself.

19"Type 5"skirt turned inside out 20 Petersham/Waist 21 Seam 22 Knife-pleat 23"Or when slit of knife-pleat is opened and skirt is turned inside-out".

24 Blind-stitching 25 Folded Material 26"Type 5"skirt (continued) 27 A grey pencil-skirt with a fan-pleat at the back with its fan-pleat opened out 28 Seam at the back of the skirt 29 Fan-pleat 30 A place at the waist for the belt 31 Belt-holders around the petersham/waist for the skirt 32 Front or back of holographic skirt 33 The belt (made of holographic material, sequins, and diamonds) 34 Catch-holes 35 Catch-pin 36 The belt with laser-sources/objects 37 Laser-sources and objects 38 Material surface of skirt seen longitudinally 39 Images and beams 40 Surface of skirt.

Claims

The Holographic Pencil-Skirt

1) This skin is a novelty in women's fashions.

2) This is the firs : skirt of ttotographic material to have been made.

3) l'his is the first skirt to produce air-born bourns and images.

4) This is the first pencil-skirt to be made of holographic material.

5) Owing to the constant change in colour while being worn by the woman, it is eye-catching.

()) 1 is washable in luke-warm water if it needs to be handwashed, though it is inappropriate for present-day machine-washing.

7) The skirt's air-born images and air-born beams of light are novel and eye-catching.

8) It is comfortable and reversible to wear.

9) The invention of the holographic skirt would be the first break or deviation from the cyclical nature of women's fashion.

tO) Shiny and often glittering. Sequined materials and diamonds glitter spectacularly.

11) The skirt would go well with any top of any colour.