US573650A - Samuel haas - Google Patents

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s. HAAS. SKIRT.

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No. 573,650. Patentedne. 22,1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL HAAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,650, aatea'neeember 22, 189e.

Application iiled March 30, 1896.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HAAs, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to reversible skirts which will generally be made double and of two different materials or fabrics, so that the appearance may be changed by placing one or the other side or face outward.

I will first describe my invention in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and afterward point out its novelty in claims. y

The drawings represent a reversible skirt made double for the purpose of changing its appearance in wear, one side or face being plain and the other side or face iigured.

Figure l is a front view of the skirt in the condition in which it is worn, representing the plain face outward. Fig. 2 represents a horizontal section in the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front view of the skirt with the plain face outward, representing it as partly unbuttoned for putting it on or taking it o. Fig. 4 is a View corresponding with Fig. 3, but showing the iigured face outward.

Similar letters and numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

The skirt may have only a single placket or may have two such plackets a b and a b', as in the example represented, extending from the waist downward as far as may be desirable, the said plackets bein g represented in front in the example, but they may be at any point or points in the contour. The description of the invention in detail with reference to one of these plackets, that a b, for example, will be sufficient, as both are alike. This placket is shown open in Figs. 3 and 4:.

The slit, which is made in the skirt from its upper edge as low down as is desirable to form the placket, has attached to one edge of it a iiy d, consisting of a strip of a suiicient width to contain buttonholes c. This iiy is intended to overlap the other edge, b, of the said slit, as shown in Fig. 2, when the placket is closed. The lower edge 5 of this iiy, which is opposite the bottom of the slit or placket-opening, is left free or detached from the adjacent parts of the skirt in order that the i'ly may serial No. 585,353. (Notara.)

be reversible from one side or face to the other of the skirt by passing` by the edge h, and hence may always be brought to the outer side of the skirt whichever side is outward. At or near the edge b there are attached to those parts of the skirt which the iiy is to overlap two sets of buttons d cZ-one set on each side or face-each of said sets of buttons corresponding with the buttonholes c c, so that whichever side or face of the skirt is outside there are buttons to be received in the buttonholes of the iiy when the latter is brought to the outside to close the placket.

The waistband of the skirt is represented as furnished inside and outside with an eye e to receive one of two hooks 6*, provided one on the inner and the other on the outer face of the band. The waistband is also represented in Figs. 3 and 4 as furnished between l the two plackets with straps f f, to be fastened by a hook and eye g 7L.

The reversible skirt is provided with a pocket i, which is also reversible, the said pocket being sewed along one edge 6 of its hand-hole 7 or opening to the edge b or b' of either placket, the other edge 8 of the hole being free or detached from all the other parts of the skirt. In Fig. 2 of the drawings the pocket is shown attached to the edge b' of one placket, and in Figs. 3 and 4 it is shown attached to the edge b of the other placket. This pocket may be turned to the inside of the skirt within the ily of the placket, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, but in reversing the skirt and thus reversing the pocket the pocket must be turned inside out, so that the free edge Sis always on the outer side of the hole 7 and the latter is accessible to the hand on partly unbuttoning the fly.

It may be understood that a single set of buttonholes serves for the buttons on both sides or faces of the skirt, thus constituting a duplicate set of fastenings, only one member of which-viz., the buttons-requires to be actually duplicated.

When the skirt is made with two plackets, as shown in the drawings, the lies of the plackets may be made in reverse directions, as shown particularly in Fig. l, the portion j of the skirt between the iiies thus constituting a iiap.

Vhat l claim as my invention is- 1. A reversible skirt having one of the edges of its placket provided with an overlapping fly which terminates downward at the bottom of the placket-opening and the bottom edge of which is left free or detached from the adjacent parts of the skirt to make it reversible over the other of said edges from one side or face to the other of the skirt, the said fly having a single set of buttonholes and the opposite edge of the placket being provided with duplicate sets of buttons one set on each side of the skirt so that the one set of buttonholes may engage With either set of buttons according to which side or face of the skirt is outward, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination With a reversible skirt having one of the edges of its placket provided with a lapping lv, of a pocket one edge of the opening of which is attached to the other edge of the skirt-placket, the opposite edge of the said opening being free to permit the turning of the said pocket inside out and the reversal of the said pocket to and from either of the reversible sides of faces of the skirt, substantally as herein described.

SAMUEL HAAS.

lVi-nesses MEYER KLEINER, J. J. BARR.

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