US639440A - Garment. - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

C. RUTENBERG.

GARMENT.

(Application filed July 27, 1899.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,440, dated December 19, 1899. Application filed July 27, 1899. Serial No. 725,299. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES RUTENBERG, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ladies garments, and by means of this invention a garment is obtained combining an outer waist or body portion with an inner corset portion detachably connected thereto, and the combined garment is adapted to sit properly or make a neat fit, as set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the garment partly open. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the body part of Fig. 1.

In the drawings is shown a garment (30TH- prising a Waist or body portion 1 and inner corset-sections 2, each detachably secured to its respective side of the waist. The outer waist 1 has a lining 3, partly detached or free from the waist, so as to leave flaps or loose portions 4. The inner corset-sections are secured to the free edges of these flaps. These flaps aid in giving a correct fit or enabling the corset to sit neatly to the figure and enable the corset to be readily attached and detached. The corset-sections are secured to the flaps by suitable detachable connections, such as buttons, clasps, spring-studs, or like means. In the case of buttons it has been found practical to put the buttons on the corset-sections and the buttonholes on the liningor flaps. The sections 2, with buttons 5, being detached leave the waist and lining in condition for being readily washed. The corset-sections, of course, are not adapted for washing, as understood, these corset-sections having corset-steels, as at 8, applied thereto for bracing and staying the sections, whereby the waist carries its own corset to brace and stay the wearer,

The fronts of the corset are pointed, as seen at 7, to extend downward below the waist of the wearer, and such fronts have in addition to the steel stays, as at 8, the front clasp-fastenings composed of studs and eyes, as at 9.

Each corset-section has an elastic gusset at its lower edge portion. This elastic or rubber insertion enables the corset to fit snugly Without requiring any lacing or like adjustment, and such elastic also enables the corset to give or respond to movements of the person.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A ladys waist having a lining 3 provided at opposite sides of the waist with loose flaps 4: unattached to the latter, and two independ ent corset-sections 2 having brace-stays 8 and front clasp-fastenings 9, and detachably connected, respectively, to said loose flaps and by said clasp-fastenings adapted to connect together at the front of and be concealed by the waist when it is closed at the front of the wearer, substantially as described.

'2. A waist having a lining provided at opposite sides with loose flaps, two independent corset-sections provided with inserted elastic gussets and brace-stays and detachably connected, respectively, to said loose flaps, and front fastenings for connecting the said stayed corset-sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES RUTENBERG. Witnesses:

w. o. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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