US3742519A - Robe construction - Google Patents

Abstract

A robe, which may be jacket length or full length, is featured by novel sleeve and armhole structure and lapel and collar structure which lend maximum comfort to the wearer along with simple elegance. The cape sleeves are not stitched in the underarm portions and fall free with the greater length toward the rear. This promotes freedom of arm movement, coolness and underarm ventilation and makes a garment of one size actually perfectly comfortable for persons of different proportions. The lapels and collar are cut unitary with the front panels and this, along with the foregoing armhole treatment, make for ease and simplicity in making the garment. The same features also make the robe reversible with unexpected ease and facilitate the double ply construction of the garment for such reversal.

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United StatesPa-tent [191 Wiley 1 1 July 3, 1973 1 ROBE CONSTRUCTION 76 I t 3 Ma 1. W1 280 P k A Primary Examiner-Jordan Franklin 1 men or J52 5 Calif g g Assistant Examiner-William L. Falk Attorney-Knox & Knox [22] Filed: June 1, 1971 Appl. No.: 148,679

FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS Great Britain 2/93 [5 7 ABSTRACT A robe, which may be jacket length or full length, is featured by novel sleeve and armhole structure and lapel and collar structure which lend maximum comfort to the wearer along with simple elegance. The cape sleeves are not stitched in the underarm portions and fall free with the greater length toward the rear. This promotes freedom of arm movement, coolness and underarm ventilation and makes a garment of one size actually perfectly comfortable for persons of different proportions. The lapels and collar are cut unitary with the front panels and this, along with the foregoing armhole treatment, make for ease and simplicity in making the garment. The same features also make the robe reversible with unexpected ease and facilitate the double ply construction of the garment for such reversal.

3 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures PATENTED JUL 3 973 SHEET 2 BF 2 INVENTOR. MARY I. WILEY 14mm & 142x036 Fig.7

ROBE CONSTRUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This robe is suggestive of the prior art luxuriously styled Kubuki and Dashiki robes, thus named primarily in reference to sleeve treatment, but these prior art robes do not feature sleeves having unequal lengths of material falling free at the forward and rear ends of open underarm portions. Cape sleeves per se are not new and linings are commonly extended into collar and lapel portions. The illustrated side slitting of the longer robes and the vertical seaming of collar panels at the rear of the neck portions, in both the long and jacket length embodiments, are recognized as well known in the art.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION As claimed herein the robe, aside from any desired belt or similar accessory, is formed from a back panel, I

two front panels and parabolic sleeve sections. The back and front panels have armhole notches with substantially horizontal underarm portions remaining unattached to the sleeve sections which fall well below the front and rear ends of underarm portions with the greater portion of the sleeve being disposed toward the rear. The open underarm portion structure facilitates inversion of the sleeves and the garment is ordinarily made fully reversible.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The robe is best understood when the construction thereof from the component parts is considered. These component parts are preferably limited to the back panel 10, right and left panels 12 and 14, cape sleeves l6 and ordinarily a belt 20.

The back panel 10 is generally rectangular with laterally opposed armhole notches 22 which may have slightly curved or substantially straight vertical edges 24 and substantially horizontal underarm portions 26. The top edge of theback panel 10 has opposed shoulder edges 28 sloping upwardly from the armhole notches 22 to acurved rear-of-the-neck edge 30..

The right and left front panels 12 and 14 are counterparts and each has an armhole notch having a substantially horizontal underarm portion 34 and a generally vertically extending portion 36 which may be curved as indicated in FIG. 1. A top-of-the-shoulder edge 38 is dimensioned for stitching to the shoulder edge 28 and an inclined edge 40 is dimensioned for stitching to said rear-of-the-neck edge 30. The terminal edges 42 are sewn together to complete the collar 44 of the robe which is then folded as illustrated in FIG. 7. The actual stitching of the rear-of-the-neck portions is indicated at 46 in FIG. 5 and the stitching of the tOp-of-the-shoulder edge is indicated at 48. The side edges of the panels are of course stitched as at 50, ordinarily with splits 52 preserved at the bottom of the garment.

The cape sleeves are, when spread out as indicated in FIG. 2, parabolic in shape with a straight edge 54 which is stitched, as at 56 in FIG. 6, to the generally vertical portions 24 and 36 of the back and front panels, respectively. The sleeves are not attached to the underarm portions 26 and 34 and the sleeves are stitched in position so that, as worn, a front wing 58 of the cape sleeve is shorter than the rear-wing 60 of the cape sleeve, each wing falling free below an end of said substantially horizontal underarm portion 26 or 34.

Two modifications of the invention are illustrated in the single FIG. 4 wherein a jacket length robe is indicated and the important underarm portion 34 is deleted from the front panel configuration. As illustrated the edge 62 which is secured to the side edges of the back panel may be substantially straight throughout and the open underarm structure in this case is limited to that provided by the underarm portion 26 of the back panel. As a further alternative, not illustrated, the open underarm structure can be provided by substantially horizontal notch portions in either or both the back and the front panels. Ordinarily a belt 20 is added as an accessory unless other closure means is provided.

The above mentioned structure is particularly suitable for use in reversible robes since the inversion of the sleeves is facilitated by the open underarm feature. In reversible robes each of the panels and cape sleeves is duplicated in a different fabric or color and each set is sewn separately substantially as described above and then the sets are sewn together, almost completely, after which they are turned inside out to hide the fabric edges and finish stitched as in common seamstress procedure. In this regard the reversible feature of the robe is similar to ordinary lining where the lining is an exact duplicate comfiguration of the outer fabric, but in the instant invention the garment is particularly easily reversible by reason of the open or unattached underarm portion feature. In addition the same feature provides for maximal underarm ventilation and coolness, nonrestrictive sleeve construction by reason of the front wings 58 being shorter than the rear wings 60 and this last feature is extremely important aesthetically also since the second or reverse fabric of the longer rear wings 60 can be displayed to advantage to complement the effect of the lapels 64 which also will display the second or reverse fabric.

I claim:

1. A robe comprising a generally rectangular back panel having longitudinal side edges and rectilinear arm edge portions disposed upwardly of said side back panel edges and extending generally in horizontally inward and vertically upward runs forming laterally opposed armhole notches, opposed shoulder edges extending in upwardly and inwardly sloping directions from said edge portions of said armhole notches and terminating in a curved edgeiportion lying between said shoulder edges forming arear collar section thereat; right and left front panels each having arm edge portions disposed upwardly and extending substantially in horizontal inward and vertically upward runs forming an armhole notch and a longitudinally side edge extending therefrom, an outwardly inclined shoulder edge extending upwardly from said edge portions of each said front panel armhole notch and a lapel portion extending upwardly from each said front panel shoulder edge thereby forming a unitary collar and lapel construction; means securing each of said longitudinal side edges of said right and left front panels to the corresponding said longitudinal side edge of said back panel along a portion thereof and along corresponding shoulder edge portions of said front and back panels; means securing each of said lapel portions together at their terminal edges and along a line conforming to said rear collar section right and left cape sleeves, means securing said cape sleeves to said generally vertical edge portions of said front and back panel armhole notches only, said sleeves having free falling edge portions extending downwardly beneath said arm edge portions.

2. A robe according to claim 1 wherein said cape sleeves are parabolic sections of material with straight edges thereof secured solely to said substantially vertical edge portions of said armholes with less than onehalf portion of each section constituting a front wing having the lower edge thereof above the level of the lower edge of the rear wing of the sleeve, giving greater freedom of movement to the forearms of the wearer.

3. A robe according to claim 1 and having a collar and lapels unitary with said front panels, said robe being lined and very easily pulled through the armholes in reversing the garment by reason of the nonsecurement of the cape sleeves to said underarm edge portions.

Claims (3)

1. A robe comprising a generally rectangular back panel having longitudinal side edges and rectilinear arm edge portions disposed upwardly of said side back panel edges and extending generally in horizontally inward and vertically upward runs forming laterally opposed armhole notches, opposed shoulder edges extending in upwardly and inwardly sloping directions from said edge portions of said armhole notches and terminating in a curved edge portion lying between said shoulder edges forming a rear collar section thereat; right and left front panels each having arm edge portions disposed upwardly and extending substantially in horizontal inward and vertically upward runs forming an armhole notch and a longitudinal side edge extending therefrom, an outwardly inclined shoulder edge extending uPwardly from said edge portions of each said front panel armhole notch and a lapel portion extending upwardly from each said front panel shoulder edge thereby forming a unitary collar and lapel construction; means securing each of said longitudinal side edges of said right and left front panels to the corresponding said longitudinal side edge of said back panel along a portion thereof and along corresponding shoulder edge portions of said front and back panels; means securing each of said lapel portions together at their terminal edges and along a line conforming to said rear collar section; right and left cape sleeves, means securing said cape sleeves to said generally vertical edge portions of said front and back panel armhole notches only, said sleeves having free falling edge portions extending downwardly beneath said arm edge portions.

2. A robe according to claim 1 wherein said cape sleeves are parabolic sections of material with straight edges thereof secured solely to said substantially vertical edge portions of said armholes with less than one-half portion of each section constituting a front wing having the lower edge thereof above the level of the lower edge of the rear wing of the sleeve, giving greater freedom of movement to the forearms of the wearer.

3. A robe according to claim 1 and having a collar and lapels unitary with said front panels, said robe being lined and very easily pulled through the armholes in reversing the garment by reason of the nonsecurement of the cape sleeves to said underarm edge portions.

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