US1084968A - Skirt, petticoat, and the like. - Google Patents

Description

V. SABLOVB.

, AND THB LIKE.

Patented Jan. 20, 1914.

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SKIRT, PETTIGOAT APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1912.

VICTOR SABLOVE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SKIRT, PETTICOAT, AND THE LIKE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1912.

Patented J an. 2G, 1914i.

Serial No. 722,568.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Vieron Sixnovn, a citizen of the United Stat-es, residing at Philadelphia., in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania., have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Skirts, Petticoats, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in skirts, petticoa-ts, and the like, the object of the invention being to provide an improved skirt which is adjustable to t various sizes of waist and hips, so that the skirts may be manufactured of a uniform size and be adjusted by the purchaser to exactly fit the wearer.

A further object is to provide a skirt with `an inside panel at the back which is formed integral with the body of the skirt at the waist and seat, which permits the skirt at the waist to be expanded forming a V at the back and provide improved snap button members at the waist line which engage any of a plurality of snap button members on the panel, whereby the skirt may be adjusted to nicely fit the figure.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view in rear elevation illustrating my improved skirt adjusted to its smallest size. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the skirt adjusted to its largest size. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view in front elevation of the skirt with a portion of the front cut away to eX- pose the panel in the rear of the skirt. Fig. l is an enlarged view in transverse section through the panel and the waist portion of the skirt. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of that portion of the skirt pattern showing the construct-ion of the rear of the skirt which forms a panel.

l represents a skirt or petticoat, and while I shall term the same a skirt, it is to be understood that this term is used in its broadest sense to include a petticoat or other article which is capable of a construction such as hereinafter described.

The back portion of the skirt is cut out in making the skirt in conformity with the pattern such as shown in Fig. 5. The waist portion of the pattern is cut on a curved line 2, and the lower portion of the goods are cut on the lines 3, 3 and on the transverse line l, so that when the edges 5, 5, are brought together, the surplus material between the dotted lines 7 and 8 will be folded inside the skirt to form an inside panel which extends from the line 9 to line l0, and the pattern preferably has a central fold line 1la which may or may not be formed in the goods.

VVhenthe rear of t-he skirt is cut out in conformity to the pattern shown in Fig. 5, and the goods pressed upon the lines 7, S, 9, and 10, the outside edges of the skirt will come together as shown in Fig. l, hiding completely the inside panel illustrated by the reference numeral ll. The lower end 0f the material forming the panel is folded upon itself, and when the skirt is seamed together, this folded portion is sewed to the body of the skirt by a triangular line of stitching l2 as indicated in Figs. l and 2.

It will be noted that the fold lines all taper so that they are closer together at their lower ends than at their upper ends. This gives to the panel 11, a general t-riangular shape with the widest portion of the panel at the waist line, so that the skirt may be expanded at the waist line into general V-shape at the back as shown in Fig. 2 to expose the panel.

On the waist band 12a of the skirt, at both sides of the folded portion, snap button members 13 are located and along the upper edge of the panel, a plurality of snap button members la are located to receive in any of them, the snap button members 13.

It is my intention to manufacture skirts which in the form shown in Fig. l, are adapted to fit the smaller sizes of women, and when in the shape shown in Fig. 2, the larger sizes, so that by adjusting the skirt and securing the snap button members 13 in the proper snap button members 14, the

skirt may be adjusted to fit any size. Fur- Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my in vention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is:

A skirt having its rear section out out at an intermediate portion at a point appreciably below its upper edge, and folded upon diverging fold lines extending from said cut 15 l ont portion to the upper edge of the section, whereby an inside integral panel is formed, and fastening devices on the waist portion of the skirt and upon the panel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

R. H. KRENKEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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