US277744A - Shirt - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES THOMAS KIMBALL, OF (JHICAGO, ILLINOIS.`

I PATENT OFFICE.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,744, dated May 15, 1883.

Application filed January 9, 1883. (No model.) V

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS KIMBALL, of Chicago, Cook county, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Reversible Shirt, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

rIhe object ot' my invention is to provide a garment that may be worn to show a plain bosom, and when turned inside ont exhibits a laced or fancy bosom. Y

The invention consists in a shirt made with a bosom, as usual, and tted at the back with naps forming a separate laced bosom, as here inafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding` parts in all the figures.

Figurel l is a front view of the reversible shirt with the plain bosom outward. Fig. 2 shows the garment reversed,and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the bosom portion.

The body A may be ot' any suitable material, either white or colored goods, of cotton, linen, or wool. Both sides maybe plain or both figured; or one side may be figured. The bosom a is shown single and of usual construction; but it may be double, and the garment open at the back instead of at the front, as shown. b b are flaps attached at their edges at the back of bosom a, and provided in their adjoining edges with eyelet-holes for the cord c. The cord is to be applied when the garment is worn with the bosom-flaps b at the outside; or, in case of a shirt opening at the back, the lacingcord may remain.

By this construction the shirt can be Worn as an ordinary plain shirt, and by being turned inside out is converted to a fancy shirt of the style known as lawn-tennis or yachting shirts. The construction whereby this object is obtained does not add materially to the eX- pense, nor render the shirt inconvenient for wear.

I am aware that reversible or changeable bosoms have been applied to shirts; but they do not present a neat appearance when worn.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten t 'Ihe one-piece bosom a, attached at one side to the shirt, bnttoned thereto at the middle, and free at the other side, in combination with the shirt'body and the aps b b, the latter eyeleted and arranged on the opposite side ofthe shirt material, as and t'or the purpose specified.

THOMAS KIMBAIIL.

\Vituesses:

CHARLES C. NARDIN, CHAs. l\"l. UATLIN.

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