US3523540A - Girdle - Google Patents

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United States Patent Inventor Patricia A. Morehouse Hawthorn Woods, lllinois Appl. No 756,126 Filed Aug. 29, 1968 Patented Aug. 11, 1970 Assignee The H. W. Gossard Co.

Chicago, Illinois a Corp. of Delaware GIRDLE 4 Claims, 10 Drawing Figs.

US. Cl 128/539, 128/546, 128/552 Int. Cl A41c 1/00 Field ofSearch 128/524-529.

Primary Examiner-- Adele M. Eager Att0rney Donald Malcolm ABSTRACT: A light-weight foundation garment of the girdle or panty girdle type, comprising two sections of two-way stretch elastic fabric which are connected together at the front and back. The said two sections of the garment are composed of an outer layer of elastic fabric which extends throughout the garment, and an inner layer of similar fabric which underlies and is secured to said outer layer and has certain areas cut out at the front and back. Thus a double thickness of elastic fabric, providing maximum control, is incorporated only into those areas which require it, and other portions of the garment including the waistline, center of the back, and inner leg areas, are relatively unrestrained.

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SINGLE. THICKNESS lNVENTOR lia-name A. MOREHOUSE ATTORNEY GIRDLE In all embodiments of the invention, the front of the inner layer of elastic material has an area cut out at the central bottom thereof and extending upwardly into the region of the crotch, another area cut out of the upper portion of the back and extending up to the waistline, and a third area in the shape of an inverted Vcut out of the lower central back and extending down to the bottom of the garment.

The inner and outer layers of elastic material, nested one within the other, are stitched together to form a composite garment. The overall reinforcementiconsisting of two layers, or a double thickness, of sheer, fine gauge elastic net fabric, affords as much or more control where needed than a single layer of a heavier net of equal power, without the necessity of employing additional elastic bands and/orrigid panels as frequently required in the past. At the same time, the areas having but a single thickness of elastic fabric, where the outer layer of the garment overlies the cut-out portions of the inner layer, leave the corresponding regions of the wearers body relatively unrestrained where maximum control is not required.

Hose supporters, which exert a straight-down pull on the garment as hereinafter described, afford additional control to the abdominal area of the girdle. They pull vertically against the horizontal pull around the body, stretching the front of the garment in both directions and holding it taut against the body.

The invention is described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. I is a perspective view, as viewed from the front, of a light-weight elastic girdle embodying the invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the rear of said garment;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view showing only the inner elastic section or layer of the garment;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view showing only the outer elastic section or layer of the garment;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged typical horizontal cross-section taken on any of the lines 5-5 of FIGS. 1 or 2;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the front of a panty girdle embodying the invention;

FIG. 7 is a rear perspective view of the panty girdle shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 shows, in front elevation, the disassembled parts of the panty girdle of FIG. 6, which are, from top to bottom, the inner elastic section of the garment, the added crotch piece, and the outer elastic section of the garment;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view, as viewed front the front, illustrating a modification of the panty girdle shown in FIG. 6; and

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the rear of the panty girdle shown in FIG. 9.

The girdle illustrated in FIGS. 1-5, inclusive, is a form fitting slip-on girdle which is adapted to encircle the body of the wearer from the waist downwardly below the hips.

It comprises two sections or layers consisting of an inner section 1 and a superimposed outer section 2, which are composed of sheer, fine gauge two-waystretch elastic powernet.

When these two sections are assembled with section I on the inside and section 2 superimposed thereon on the outside, they are secured together by a vertical front seam 3 and a vertical back seam 4. Thus, the girdle does not have vertical side seams (as do most girdles). As a result, the shaping of this girdle is in the back seam where fullness is needed to keep the back of the garment from pulling down in sitting, while the sides are kept flat for maximum control in this area.

As shown in FIG. 3, the front of the elastic inner section 1 of the garment has a cut-out area 5 in the shape of an inverted U which extends from the bottom edge up to the region of the crotch. The back of said inner section I has a wide V- shaped cut-out area 6 at the top, and a central cut-out area 7 in the shape of an inverted V" at the bottom. Thus the elastic inner section I will exert maximum control only on those areas of the wearers body which require such control, and it leaves the waistline, center of the back, and inner leg areas relatively unrestrained.

As shown in FIG. 4, the outer elastic section 2 of the garment has a small central cut-out area 8 of inverted V-shape extending upwardly from the bottom edge. This Yed front area 8, in conjunction with the Ved cut-out area 7 and the Ued cut-out area 5 in the inner elastic section 1, affords much the same freedom of movement of the wearers legs that a panty does, without the loss of hip control desired by the woman who prefers to wear a girdle for that reason. Since the girdle more completely encases the figure in the upper thigh area than a conventional girdle does, it smooths the top of the leg, particularly when the wearer is seated.

FIGS. 1 and 2 show the front and back, respectively, of the completely assembled girdle. The elastic waist band 9 stitched to the upper edge of the girdle has an extremely long stretch to facilitate putting the garment on and off, and to prevent shrinkage from tightening the waist after washing. This band 9 is wide enough to inhibit curling and rolling. An elastic facing 10 is stitched to the bottom edge of the girdle, and hose supporters 12 are secured to the inner side of said facing. The hose supporters, when attached to the hose, pull vertically against the horizontal pull around the body, stretching the front of the garment in both directions and holding it taut against the body.

As shown in FIG. 1, the inner and outer sections or layers 1 and 2 of elastic fabric are secured together at the front of the garment by a plurality of spaced upwardly-arched lines of stitches 13 which extend from the bottom edge of the garment to a region just below the waistline, and by a plurality of spaced downwardly curved lines of stitches 14 which extend downwardly from the waistline and are tangent to the meeting upwardly-arched lines of stitches 13. And, as shown in FIG. 2, the inner and outer sections or layers 1 and 2 of elastic fabric are secured together at the back of the garment by lines .of stitches 15 which engage the edge of the wide V-shaped cutout area 6 (FIG. 3), and by lines of stitches 16 which engage the edge of the inverted V-shaped cut-out area 7 (FIG. 3).

The garment shown in FIG. 6 to 8 is a panty girdle but, except that it is modified to provide legs, it is otherwise the same as the girdle shown in FIGS. 1 to 4; hence the same reference numerals are used to indicate the parts previously described in connection with FIGS. 1 to 4.

Because of the cut-out area 5 in the front of the inner section 1, and the cut-out area 7 in the back of said inner section 1, the portions of the assembled garment which coincide with these cut-out areas have only the single thickness constituting the outside elastic section 2. As previously shown n connection with FIG. 4, this outer elastic section 2 has a small central cut-out area 8 of inverted V-shaped extending upwardly from the bottom edge. A crotch piece 18 of soft inelastic fabric is stitched to the edges of said cut-out area 8 and to the edges of a cut-out portion which is formed in the single thickness of the elastic outer section 2 inwardly of the lines of stitches 16. This forms the legs of the panty girdle, as illustrated.

The panty girdle illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10 is similar to that shown in FIGS. 6 to 8 except that it has longer legs. To accomplish this, the outer and inner sections of the garment are extended downwardly and the lines of stitches 16 at the. back are necessarily longer than before. The legends on the drawings indicate the regions where the elastic fabric of the outer section 2 constitute areas of single thickness. The other regions, not so marked in FIGS. 9 and 10, have the double thickness of the inner and outer elastic sections or layers.

lclaim:

I. A figure molding foundation garmentfor womencomprising two sections composed of two-way stretch elastic fabric which are connected together by vertical seams at the front and back, and which is adapted to encircle the body of the wearer from the waist downwardly below the hips, the said two sections of the garment being composed of an outer layer of elastic fabric which extends throughout the garment andan inner layer of similar fabric which underlies said outer layer, said inner layer having an area cut out of the front at the central bottom thereof and extending upwardly into the region of the crotch, an area cut out of the upper portion ofthe back and extending up to the waistline, and an area cut out ofthe lower central back and extending down to the bottom ofthe garmentv said inner and outer layers ol'elastic material being stitched together at the front and back of the garment.

2. A garment according to Claim 1, in which the outer layer of elastic fabric has a cut-out area in the front extending upwardly from the bottom edge, and a crotch piece secured to the edges of said cut-out area and to the lower back of said outer layer and forming panty girdle leg portions.

3. A light weight form-fitting figure molding foundation garment for women comprising two sections composed of twoway stretch elastic fabric which are connected together by vertical seams at the front and back, and which is adapted to encircle the body of the wearer from the waist downwardly below the hips, the portions of said two sections adjacent said vertical back seam being shaped to provide fullness to keep the back of the garment from pulling down when the wearer is seated, the said two sections of two-way stretch elastic fabric being composed of an outer layer of sheer fine gauge elastic material which extends throughout the garment and an inner layer of similar material which underlies said outer layer; the front of said inner layer having a generally inverted U-shaped area cut out of the central bottom thereof and extending upwardly into the region of the crotch, a generally V-shaped upper central area cut out of the back and extending up to the waistline, and a generally V-shaped portion cut out of the lower central back area and extending down to the bottom ofthe garment; the inner and outer layers of elastic material being secured together at the front of the garment by a plurality of spaced upwardly-arched lines of stitches which extend from the bottom edge ofthe garment to a region just below the waistline, and by a plurality of spaced downwardly from curved lines of stitches which extend downwardly the waistline and are tangent to said upwardlyarched lines of stitches, and said inner and outer layers of powernet material being secured together at the back of the garment by lines of stitches adjacent said V-shaped upper central back area and said inverted V-shaped lower central back area, and hose supporters secured to the lower edge of said garment. I

4. A foundation garment according to Claim 2, m WhlCh the outer layer of sheer fine-gauge powernet material extends downwardly in both the front and back of the garment and forms panty legs whose single thickness of powernet material is adapted to cover the inner thighs of the wearer, and a crotch piece stitched to said single thickness of powernet and cooperating therewith to form said panty legs.

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