US3154792A

US3154792A - Method of making a bouffante garment

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Publication number: US3154792A
Application number: US150564A
Authority: US
Inventors: David J Lobel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1961-11-06
Filing date: 1961-11-06
Publication date: 1964-11-03
Anticipated expiration: 1981-11-03

Description

Nov. 3, 1964 D. J. LOBEL METHOD OF MAKING A BOUFFANTE GARMENT Filed. NOV. 6, 1961 INVEN TOR. flay/#1105 6/ W W A T70/iA/5/5 United States Patent 3,154,792 Marrron or Martino A not W. ANTE GARMENT David 1. Label, 4 Tulip St., Cedarhurst, Ni Filed Nov. 6, 1961, Ser. No. 156,564 1 (Ilaim. (Cl. 2-243} This invention relates to a bouliante garment and to a method of making the garment.

In accordance with the dictates of style, it is quite desirable to provide for toddlers, and even for older children or grown-ups various boulfante garments such as slips in order to hold the sk rt of a toddlers, childs or womans dress in an outwardly flaring manner from the body of the wearer in a sweeping effect. in the past, such bouliante garments have required a large quantity of material to achieve sufiicient bulk to hold the outer garment outwardly or have required hoops, stays, plastic or metal reinforcements, or the like. These bouifante garments have required vertical seams in the material which usually cause there to be present at the immediate location of such vertical seams areas where the garment fails to support the outer skirt or dress in its outward position, or the total effect desired to be achieved by the garment is somewhat impaired.

The present invention overcomes these disadvantages of the prior art bouifante garments by enabling a bouffante type garment to be constructed wherein a relatively small amount of material is utilized and wherein there are required no stays or reinforcements, and wherein there is present no vertical seams so that the areas of non-support of the outer garment are eliminated.

It is an object of this invention to make a bouifante skirt from a single continuous strip of material with the skirt having no vertical seam from top to bottom of the skirt, while considerably reducing the labor heretofore necessary to produce such a garment.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a method of making a boufiante garment which is quite simple and which allows the garment to be made from a minimum number of parts with very little cutting of material required.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bout"- fante garment that is highly attractive and novel in ap pearance and which is Shirred and adorned in a highly appealing manner.

Still further objects of the invention reside in the provision of a boulfante type garment and method of manufacture that is capable of being utilized for mass production, which may employ conventional machines now in use in the textile industry, and which permits the garments to be mass produced at a relatively low cost thereby permitting wide distribution and utilization of the invention.

These, together the various ancillary objects and features of the invention which will become apparent as proceeds, are attained by this boutfante garment and method of manufacture there, a preferred embodiment of the garment being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, by way of example only, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a bouffante slip manufactured in accordance with the concepts of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the various fabric components of the present invention prior to stitching the parts together;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged partial perspective view illusrating the garment during a stage of manufacture thereof;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken along the plane of line 4-4 in FIG. 3; and

FIG. 5 is a view illustrating the continuous strip used in forming the boufiante skirt for the garment.

3,154,?92 Patented Nov. 3, 1964 With continuing reference to the accompany drawings wherein like reference numbers designate similar parts throughout the various views, reference numeral 19 is used to designate a garment in accordance with the concepts and manufactured by the method of the present invention.

In accordance with the article aspects of the present invention, the garment 10 includes a bodice 12 which may include shoulder straps 14 and which terminates in an edge 16 at the Waist of the garment. Secured to the edge 16 of the bodice 12 is a skirt 18 constructed in a novel way.

As can be seen in FIG. 2, an elongated continuous strip 2i of material of any des'red fabric is provided. This elongated strip 2i is of a strip form except that the ends 22 and 24 thereof are tapered. The end 22 is secured to the edge 16 by stitching. It is to be noted that when the end 22 is stitched to the garment 16 for the first circumference of the strip 20, there is employed an edging machine provided with a difierential shirring device or other suitable sewing machine or the like, for eX- ample, of 1.5 to 1. That is, 1 /2 times as much of the strip 2% is fed as is the edge 16 of the garment. This causes considerable shirring and stitching together of the edge of the ends 22 of the strip 2% the garment bodice 12. The strip 20 is arranged in a spiral pattern widening from the top to bottom and with the edges of the spiral 2%) in abutting relationship. These edges are then secured to each other by the edging machine provided with the differential shirring device with the feeding set for the strip which has not yet been secured to the garment fed in a greater amount then is the portion of the strip already fed to the garment at a rate of 1.1 to 1. In this manner, as can be seen in PEG. 3, successive loops 2&2, 20b, and Ztlc of the strip 2t? are secured together by stitches 28, 31), etc. in a shin-ed manner. If it is desired, a shirred lace may be fixed to the edge or edges of the strip in order to provide a decorative effect.

When the bottom end of the strip 29 is reached, because it is tapered, the edging machine with diflerential shirring device is set so that all shirring is removed and the tapered end 24 is sewn at a ratio of 1 to 1 to the garment.

in order to facilitate setting the edging machine so that the differential shirring device is operating at the correct ratio and to check on the operation of the edging machine, the strip 29 is provided with notches such as 313, 32, 34, 36, 38, 49, 42, 44, 46, 48 therein. In lieu of notches, if it is desired suitable markings may be provided. The notchings are found desirable due to the fact that the edging machine is of the type that trims and conceals the edge of the strip as it is being sewn and therefore the notches are not present in the finished garment, nevertheless the notches provide not only a visual but also a physical feeling to the hand of the operator to indicate where the notches are. These notches mark the position of the strip and at each notch a complete circuit of the garment should have been accomplished. For example, if the garment is so arranged that the first circuit in attaching the end 22 to the bodice 12 has required 39 inches, then when the differential shirring device of the edging machine is re-set from a 1.5 to 1 ratio to a 1.1 to 1 ratio or thereabouts, the next portion of the strip 2% will be approximately 43 inches in length, that is 39 inches times 1.1 or 42.9 inches. Likewise, in round numbers, as indicated on the strip 20 in FIG. 5, each successive strip will be longer each successive section of the strip will be longer in length than the preceding one in order that the substantially conical shape of the skirt 18 can be obtained.

In accordance with the method aspects of the invention, the method is carried out by making the bodice 12 and then arranging the spiral in a continuous strip with the spiral Winding from top to bottom. Contemporaneously one of the tapered ends 22 is stitched to the bodice 12. Using the edging machine with the differential shirring de vice, the abutting edges of the spiral are shirred and stitched together to form the skirt in attached relationship to the bodice. The end 24 is not Shirred so as to prevent gathering at the bottom.

A latitude of modification, change and substitution is intended in the foregoing disclosure and in some instances some features of the invention will be employed without a corresponding use of other features. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be construed broadly and in a manner consistent with the spirit and scope of the invention herein. 7

What I claim is:

A method for'forming a bouffante garment comprising forming an elongated length of material free from seams and tapered at each end, marking said length of material at guide points for forming a spiral of desired size, orienting said length of material in a spiral of increasing diameter With the edges of said length of material in overlapping relationship and with said guide markings in alignment, and stitching adjacent edges of the spiralled length of material together and contemporaneously shirring the material.

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