US1293152A - Lady's garment. - Google Patents

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A. MALSIN.

LADYSGARMENT. APPLICATIIQN FILED JULY 9.1915.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

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ALBERT mALsm, or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR. To LANE BRYANT, me, or miw YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

LADYS GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 9, 1915. Serial No. 38,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MALsIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Garments, of which the following is a specification.

. The present invention relates to ladies garments and particularly to the ty e of garment known to the trade as divid skirt or pantaloons. y

The object of the invention is to produce a garment of that type which will give great comfort "and freedom of movement of the limbs and which in order to avoid the objectionable vulgar appearance will substantially have the form of a skirt.-

To accomplish my object the garment is composed of an'outer part adapted to constitute the skirt and which is made up of two separate pieces, each folded into the shape of an oval and both connected only at their upper edges or :at the waistband portion, and an inner part made-of two or more pieces out and sewed together in the form of pantaloons, but which differs from ordinary pantaloons in that they are open at their outer sides and have no waist portion.

The longitudinal edges along the open sides are sewed to the parts forming the skirt and constitute trunks for the limbs. In order to provide for great freedom of movement to the limbs and to conceal the pantaloon-shaped inner part and the crotches thereof, the pieces forming the skirt are so cut as to gradually widen toward the bottom and are plaited all around or only in front and back, and the plaits are so arranged that the central plaits or those located at the points of connection of the twopieces will almost acters denote corresponding parts, Figure 1 bemg an elevation of my new garment; F g. 2 a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig, 1; F1g. 3 a cross section on line 3-3 of Fig 1; Fig 4 a longitudinal section on line 44 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 an elevation of a modified structure; Fig. 6 a cross section on line 6-6 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 a cross section on line 77 of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the garment consists of two parts, an outer part A and an inner part B. The outer part is adapted to constitute the skirt and is composed of two pieces a, a each of which is folded into an oval (Fig. 2). The twopieces are sewed together only at their upper edges or at the waist band w, but are loose throughout the rest of thelength of the garment, as at a, Figs. l-5. The two pieces are each cut so as to be narrower at the waistband and widening toward the bot tom and each of the pieces is formed with longitudinal flaring plaits a". The object of the plaits is first toprovide for greater freedom of movement to the limbs of the wearer and secondly to conceal the real nature of the garment. The inner arts -B is adapted to constitute panta cons and is composed of two or more pieces 6, I) cut and sewed together in the form of pantaloons, forming the crotch b", but differing from real pantaloons in that the outer sides thereof are open, as at b. The longitudinal edges 72 along the open sides are sewed to the respective pieces a of the skirt, so that trunks c, c for the limbs of the wearer are formed. The plaitings are so arranged that those in front and back which are located in the center almost touch one another, as at d, and thus overlap the crotch of the pantaloons and conceal the inner part B.

Instead of the plaitings a the outer parts a, a may have folds a formed by turning their longitudinal edges inwardly, as in Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

Figs. 6 and 7 and the pantaloon-shaped inner part B may have its longitudinal edges 6 atthe open sides sewed tosaid folds, as at b? (Fig. 5). The outer parts a, a willat their juncture overlap and thus conceal the crotch. I

In order to allow the wearer, if she so desires, to connect the two parts of the skirt, so as to prevent the parting thereof while walking, Iprovide a buttonholed flap or tab a s a f and button 9 which I secure below the central plaits, as in Fi 1-3, or to the folds a, as in Figs. 5 and Instead, however, any other suitable fastening means may be provided and concealed behind the plaits to allow of the two skirt portions being temporarily connected together.

In the modification according to Fig. 7 the garment is shown as capable of opening at the back. The inner pantaloon-shaped part B is divided on the central line, as at b", and there may be suitable closing means.

A ladys bifurcated skirt formed of two separate outer piecesconstituting the visible portions of the garment united pnly at their upper edges or waist portions, the lines of separation between these two pieces being from the waist portion downward and at the front and rear of the garment respectively, and two inner. ortions united together to! form a crotch an each united along its front and back edges with one of the outer skirt pieces by substantially vertical seams that are located a short distance back from the edges of the vertical lines of separation between the outer pieces, the said inner pieces of the garment being without a distinct waist portion individual to the inner pieces of the garment.

In testimony whereof I aflix'my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- ALBERT ll SIN.

Witnesses HENRY HmsoH,

x BERMAN.

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