US1406862A - Apron dress - Google Patents

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IVI. E. HODGE.

APRON DRESS. APPLICATION FILED olcr. a. 1919.

Pafnted Feb. 14, 1922.

` UNITED STATES MARY EDITH HODGE, OF WENONA, ILLINOIS.

APRON DRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application iiled October 8, 1919. Serial No. 329,198.

To all wh om t may con-cem Be it known that I, MARY EDITH HonGE, a citizen ot' the United States. a resident of lVenona. in the county of Marshall and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apron Dresses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in an apron, and among other objects, it has to provide a reversible garmentI so that when the front thereof be.

comes soiled, the back may be turned around to serve as a new and clean front side.

A further aim of the invention is to minimize the cost of manufacture and material, and facilita-tethe making of the same by constructing the apron of a one-piece top and a two-piece skirt portion, with a readily removable belt or sash. for giving the necessary inished appearance to the garment.

In the drawingfi Figure l is a viewo` the apron from one side;

Figure 2 is asimilar view of the reverse side of the apron; i

Figure 31s a horizontal section on line 3--3 of Figure l, through the skirt portion,

Figure 4 is a vertical section on line L1--4 of Figure 1 through a sleeve;

i Referring more-in detail to the drawing, the top or waist portion is made from a single piece of material folded midway upon itself, as indicated at 2. This folded edge 2 has a semi-circular cut-out, which, when the folded material is opened, constitutes the neck opening 3 of sufficient size to permit the garment slipping on and od over the head of the wearer. The lower corners of the folded top piece are cut away by substantially arcuate incisions, thereby according a. cruciform shape to the blank or unfolded pattern. The outwardly and oppostitc d along their lower edges only, and the seams turned in, said stitching continuing downwardly to close up the sides of the waist portion.

The skirt portion 5 consists of two similar sitely extending sleeves 4 thus formed are4 pieces of material stitched together and their sea-ms turned in as depicted at 6 in Figure 3. The skirt portion is gathered at its upper edge and stitched to the lower edge ot the waist portion at 7, and designed to encircle the garment at this stitched waist line, is a detachable belt 8, which has its ends 9 hanging together to produce a neat -and finished sash effect. or otherwise temporarily secured at two or more points, such as 1n front and back. Therefore, when it becomes .necessary or desirous to reverse the garment, the belt may be detached, 'turn about to bring the back ot' the belt to the formerly front, but now back side of the apronfand re-attached in its new position.

The pockets 10 are positioned directly opposite to each other on the sides of the apron so as to be in convenient reach when the garment isv worn in either position.

By reason of its three-piece construction. the manufacture of the apron may be carried ou very expeditiously. The garment is practical and of a. Very advantageous design, being reversible, containing no biases and not requiring any buttons, or fastening means ot' any kind.y

What I claim is:

The belt may be tacked A reversible apron dress comprising a onepiece waist part of cruciform formed of a folded -piece of materialliaving a neck opening in the line of fold and having oppositely extending sleeve portions, a skirt part formed fof two similar pieces -of materialthe waist part is back of the apron to accommodate it to the g reversibility of the apron and 'arranged over the stitching bet-Ween parts.

In wit-ness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand this 22nd' da of' Se tember, 1919.

MARY DIT HODGE.

the waist andskirt

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