US2019545A

US2019545A - Lady's undergarment

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Publication number: US2019545A
Application number: US11419A
Authority: US
Inventors: Roth Stanley
Original assignee: ROTH SILK UNDERGARMENT CO Inc
Current assignee: ROTH SILK UNDERGARMENT CO Inc
Priority date: 1935-03-16
Filing date: 1935-03-16
Publication date: 1935-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 1952-11-05

Description

Nov. 5, 1935. s. ROTH LADYS UNDERGARMENT' Filed March 16, 1935 INVENTOR fiiazzle ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 5, 1935 2,019,545 LADYS UNDERGARMENT Stanley Roth, New York, N. Y., assignor to Both Silk Undergarment Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application March 16, 1935, Serial No. 11,419

3 Claims.

My present invention relates to ladies under garments and finds a specific application to dress An object of the invention is to provide a garment of the above type devoid of objectionable oblique or horizontal seams at the main expanse thereof, sufliciently opaque to prevent objectionable silhouettes by light penetration when worn unier sheer dresses, and yet of form-fitting charac er.

Another object is to provide a garment of the above type capable of being made up by relatively unskilled workmen from a minimum number of distinct shapes of plaques or panels, and without likelihood of puckering at. the seams either in original manufacture or in the course of laundering.

In the accompanying drawing, in which is shown one of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the garment as worn,

Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal cross-section of the garment as worn, 2

Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sectional views taken respectively on the line 3-3 and line 4-4 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary rear view of the garment, as worn.

Referring now to the drawing, the garment, which may be of silk, rayon, or other like fabric, is made up of a back panel l and a front panel I I, thelatter consisting of two identically shaped blanks, an outer panel H' and an auxiliary light blockingpanel H both panels preferably of the same material.

All three of said panels Ill, II and H are bias cut for proper form fitting, and tapered at their upper ends in generally triangular or trapezoidal form as at I3 and I4 respectively, affording oblique edges at each side of the garment Triangular gussets l and IS with appropriate darts H at the front for fullness, are preferably connected together by means of lace I8 to form a yoke Y.

The front and back panels are stitched to the yoke Y at the oblique edges of gusset l5 by lines of stitching l9 and 20 respectively to the corresponding oblique or tapered edge of the back panel In and to the two superposed oblique edges of the plies II and II making up the frontpanel ll.

Similarly, lines of stitching 2| and 22 connect gusset 16 respectively to the other oblique or taper edge of the back panel In and to the two other superposed oblique edges of the double ply front panel i l.

The twoends of the shoulder straps 23 are attached to the front and rear of the yoke from which the front and back panels of the garment hang. The back panel andthe two plies of the front panel are laterally stitched together, as at 24, along that length thereof below the gussets I5 and N5 of the yoke. The lower ends of the 1 respective panels are appropriately hemmed, but the

hems

25 and 26 of the plies II and H respectively are unconnected throughout the lengths thereof between the lateral seams 24.

According to the invention, the back panel Ill and the two plies II and II of the front panel and the gussets l5 and I6 making up the yoke are all bias cut. The oblique lines of stitching I9, 20, 2| and 22 by which said panels depend from the yoke, extend substantially directly along the straight out or along the line of weave of the various panels and of the yoke gusset. Accordingly the rigidity of the non-elastic lines of stitching I9, 20, 2| and 22 is enhanced by the fact thatsaid lines extend in that direction in which various pieces of fabric thereby connected are each individually devoid of elasticity. Thus the non-yielding reinforcement from which the double front panel hangs is localized near the top of the garment, obliquely between and under the 30 breasts where it serves to a substantial degree as a stay. The yoke Y as shown, is of substantial depth, to afford a light single ply covering over the bust.

By the present invention the form-fitting advantage accomplished by the bias cutting of the three panels making up the body of the garment is in no way detracted from as it would be by the presence of rigid seams transversely or obliquely thereacross. The objection of a visible trace of the creases through sheer dresses due to such transverse or oblique seams and the actual exposure of such seams through open-work or eyelet dresses is also eliminated, as is the unsightly patched effect of garments with short socalled shadow panels.

The individual lines of stitchingconnecting the yoke to the main panels of the garment are relatively short and easily applied without the exercise of considerable skill or care, while puckering is difiicult to avoid in garments that require a. longer oblique line of connection, especially one along the relatively flat expanse covered by a short extra panel, and. the effect of such puckering would be aggravated after laundering.

If the garment were made with a short silhouette-concealing panel rising from the hem and tapering at its upper end near the crotch, it is clear that aside from the objections above pointed out, to the oblique lines of stitching along the main expanse of the garment, the effectiveness of this auxiliary plaque would be impaired, unless the shoulder straps were adjusted to such position as to bring the peak of the auxiliary plaque at least to the height of the crotch.

The present garment on the other hand is, in every sense shadow-proof and completely obviates the possibility of objectionable light penetration, regardless whether or not the shoulder straps be properly adjusted.

Clearly the invention could be embodied in a garment in which the back rather than the front panel is of two layers or plies, which latter construction might in some cases be preferred, and is quite as eflicacious for preventing light penetration as is the preferred construction shown.

While the invention is shown applied to a dress slip, it could obviously be likewise embodied in a petticoat, a nightgown or analogous garments. I

It will thus be seen that there is herein described an article in which the several features of this invention are embodied, and which article in its service attains the various objects of the invention and is well suited to meet the requirements of practical use.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patents is:

1. A form-fitting ladys dress slip comprising a bias cut back panel, a two-ply bias out front panel, triangular gussets formed as a yoke devoid of seams at the sides of the wearer and stitched to said panels at the top, said panels being tapered at the region of said gussets to accommodate the same, shoulder straps connected at their opposite ends to said yoke, the single ply of the back panel and the two plies of the front panel being laterally stitched to side edges of said yoke substantially along the line of threads of said bias cut panels, the side edges of the two 5 plies of the front panel being stitched along that part of the length thereof below the yoke to the. side edges of the back panel, said back panel and the two plies of said front panel being connected solely atthe above-recited lines of stitching, and substantially devoid of stitching throughout the area thereof between said lateral lines of stitching.

2. A form fitting ladys dress slip having front and back sections, the front section being bias out with the threads thereof extending at an angle to the vertical and comprising a two-ply panel which is tapered at its top and extends between the breasts of the wearer, the side edges of said panel being secured to the side edges of the back section, substantially triangular gussets attached to the inclined edges of the tapered portion of the front panel and to the upper part of the back section, the lines of attachment between said gussets and the two plies of the panel extending substantially in the direction of threads 'of said connected elements;

3. A form fitting ladys dress slip comprising a front panel and a back panel, one of said panels being two-ply and being bias cut with the threads thereof extending at an angle to the vertical, triangular gussets formed as a yoke devoid of seams at the sides of the wearer, and stitched to said panels, said panels being tapered at the region of said gussets to accommodate the same, shoulder straps connected at their opposite ends to said yoke, the bias cut panel being laterally stitched to side edges of said yoke substantially along the line of threads of the bias cut thereof, the other panel being similarly stitched to the remaining sideedges of said yoke, the side edges of the two panels being stitched together along that part of the length thereof below the yoke, said two-ply panel being connected to the other panel solely at the above recited lines of stitch- 5 ing, both panels being substantially devoid of stitching throughout the area thereof between said lateral lines of stitching.

STANLEY ROTH.