US696227A - Corset. - Google Patents

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v Patented Mar. 25, I902. A. E. DECKER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE E. DECKER, OF'BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart 0f Letters Patent NO. 696,227, dated. March 25, 1902.

Application filed April 10, 1901. S rial No. 55,123. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, ANNIE E. DECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to corsets made up from pieces of woven fabric cut to the proper shape and stitched together to impart the desired contour to the corset. In this class of corsets, in order that they-may mold themselves to the form of the wearer, gores are set in at both top and bottom; and one of the features of this corset is the arrangement of the grain of the fabric so that the warp or weft threads will extend straight or practically straight with or along the upper and lower margins of the corset and not be oblique toor bias with said edges. This avoids that stretching of the goods which produces a change in the shape and fit of the corset.

Another feature of importance is a provision for adjusting the compass of the corset at its upper edge, and particularly in front, in order to cause the corset to fit snugly over the bust.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a view of the corset as a whole distended to fit the person of the wearer, the view being in substance a front view. Fig. 2 is an inside view of the front upper edge of the corset, showing the adj usting feature and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the part seen in Fig. 2. These views are on a somewhat larger scale than Fig. 1.

As in the ordinary corset, the one herein illustrated comprises two like halves A A, of which a a are the busks, provided with any suitable fastenings, and b the lacing at theback. The lines of stitching indicate the pockets containing the bones. At the top of the corset in front are gores c, and at the bottom are hip-gores d and larger front gores e. The gores have the directions'of the threads of the fabric marked on them, and it should enables them to resist the strains best. Therefore the corset will maintain its form and dimensions very perfectly and for a long time. At the upper-edge of the corset, at each side of the busks and extending over the space of the two gores c,is a pocket g, in which is a double draw-string h, one end of which is fixed at z and the other end of which passesout of the pocket at the edge thereof where the husk is situated. This free end or bight of the string or cord his (or may be) provided with an eye 2 to engage a hook j, secured to the corset at the opposite side. Figs. 2 and 3 clearly show the arrangement. There may, if desired, be a series of two or more hooks 3', set at different distances from the busk, so that the draw-strings may be made to gather and take in more or less of the front of the corset at its upper edge, the hooks serving to hold all that has been taken up. In Figs. 2 and?) only a part of each pocket is shown and only the hooks j at the points between the gores c.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A corset having at its upper edge in front the pockets g, the draw-strings h, fixed at one

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