US1941959A

US1941959A - Slip and method of making same

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Publication number: US1941959A
Application number: US536257A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sumner Joanna-May
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1931-05-09
Filing date: 1931-05-09
Publication date: 1934-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1951-01-02

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Jan. 2, 1934 JoANNA-MAY sUMNER 1,941,959

SLIP AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed May 9, 1951 E /55 A .f5 -/4 /4 /l Patented Jan. 2, 1934 1f:

UNITED STATES PATENT ol-Plclai,

SLIP AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Joanna-May Sumner, Dayton, Ohio Application May 9, 1931. serial No. 536,257

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-73) My invention relates to Womens under garments and particularly those which are commercially known as slips, being customarily worn beneath the dress.

Briefly stated the invention has among its more important objects to provide in a device as characterized, (1) means allowing the wearer greater freedom of limb movement but which will assure a smooth unwrinkled t at the hip area; (2) means to protect the skirt from perspiration and against wrinkling at the seat and in novel means in applying such means so as to admit of convenient and satisfactory laundering and ironing Without damage to the garment; (3) means enabling the size of the garment to be varied within certain limits and at certain points; and (4) means to protect the outer surface of the garment from perspiration at various points (and likewise, of course the outer dress), and in novel means of applying such last named means.

The invention also resides in certain novel detail features of construction, combination and arrangement of the various parts,-and is pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this specification. However, it is to be understood that the invention is capable,-Within the spirit and scope of the subject matter claimed, of considerable change and modification and is not to be taken as limited to the now preferred embodiment which is illustratcd in the accompanying drawing wherein,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a slip embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a rear elevational view thereof;

Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3 3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a cross section on the line 4-4 of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5--5 of Figure 2,- showing a portion of the back panel;

Figure 6 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 6--6 of Figure 4; and,

Figure 7 is a detail perspective view of the size adjustment means.

Referring specifically to the drawing, wherein the same reference characters have been used throughout the several views to denote similar parts, numeral 9 designates the slip having the usual shoulder straps 9a.

A rectangular piece is cut-out of the front of the slip from the bottom, the vertical length of such cut-out being approximately the distance from the hem to the hip line. The outline of the cut-out referred to is indicated by the stitching 11, 11a (see Figure 1), which stitching secures the side and top edges of a piece of material which is relatively wider than the cut-out defined by 1l, 11a so as to provide the side folds 10a, over the legs of the wearer. The piece of material referred to is designated as at 10, and it is very important to note that the folds 10a are disposed well inwardly of the sides of the garment and the rounded portion of the wearers figure so as to provide a desirable smoothness at the hips Which is not obtainable When pleats or folds are at the sides as is true of the usual slip.

Figure 1 illustrates a U-shaped row of stitching 11b connected at its ends with stitching 11 to reinforce the garment at the upper corners of the fold-producing piece 10, the lower leg of this U-shaped row of stitching dening in each instance the upper ends of the folds 10a.

Referring to Figures 2 and 3, it will be noted that a rubber skirt protector 14 is stitched to a lace strip 15 which is, in turn, stitched as at 15a to the rear of the garment to provide a protection for the outer skirt at the seat. A lace fringe at the lower edge of the skirt protector 14 registers with the similar hem fringe of the garment. The protector 14 terminates above the garment hem as shown and neither the fringe 15b nor the protector 14 itself is stitched to the garment at the bottom. The protector 14 being at the inside and free at the hem may be easily ironed. The attaching lace strip 15 overcomes the washing difliculty that would be present if the rubber were sewed directly to the crepe or similar material of which slips are usually made.

The rubber protector 14 is so positioned as to receive the weight of the wearers body when seated but does not extend up over the spine.

Suitable fasteners 12, 13, as illustrated in Figures 1 and '7 are availed of to vary the size of the garment at the top, it being noted from Figure 1 that the said fasteners are at the front and that the folds 13a produced when the top dimension is reduced are Well inwardly of the 2 Y A g the i d s u the garment; said shields having marginal lace attachment strips secured to the garment and having one edge free, bust size adjustment means at the exterior top front of the garment on either side of the front center line thereof and inwardly of the side edges to eliminate folds thereat to produce a smooth bust line, and said last means being adapted to center said shields and first named folds.

. JOANNA-MAY SUMNER.

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