US996210A - Demonstration-garment. - Google Patents

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L. S. CARROLL.

DEMONSTRATION GARMENT.

APPLICATION rILnn 3111.28, 1911.

996,2 1 O, Patented June 27, 1911.

WITNESSES JNVENTOR.

5L M S carve? LIMA S. CARROLL, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

DEMONSTRATION-GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J nne 27, 1911.

Application filed January 28, 1911. Serial No. 605,305.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, LIMA S. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the city and county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Demonstration-Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to demonstration garments and the object of my invention is to provide a garment more particularly a combination waist and part of the skirt, sufficient to give it a waist and skirt effect for ladies, that may be used totemporarily take the place of outer waist and skirt after the demonstrator has fitted or adjusted the corset upon the person to determine how the wearers dress will appear over the newly fitted corset and also to assist both the demonstrator and patron, by doing away with the necessity of dressing and undressing when the corset needs altering and further adjustment; and still further in adapting one garment to be used on numerous per sons varying greatly in size and form.

The following specification will .explain in detail in what manner I accomplish my object when read in connect-ion with the drawings accompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the garment on a person. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the garment opened.

Like characters of reference denote similar parts in each of the drawings.

In the drawings, 2 designates the body of the garment which is preferably made in three sections 4, 5 and 6 of Jersey cloth capable of great elasticity and said garment extends a considerable distance below the waist line. The outer edge of section 4 is provided with button holes 8 of which the hooks or buttons ,10 on the outer edge of the section 6 engage. The sections 4 and 6 are sewed to section 5 over the shoulders at 11 and it is provided with the arm holes 12. Beneath each arm hole the sections 4 and 6 are united to section 5 by elastic strips 15 with a very narrow space 16 between the strips. These strips 15 vary in length being longer immediately beneath the arm holes and decreasing in length to the waist line then increasing in length to the bottom of the garment, which, in ordinary persons, would be about at the knees. These elastic strips being of different lengths and spaced between and uniting the edges of the sections in a manner described, will permit every portion of the garment to automatically adjust itself and fit every portion of the person even though they are of a great variety of size and form.

In order to provide for very small or abnormally large waist measurements, there may be attached to one end of one of the strips 15 near the waist of the garment a buckle 18 and upon the section 5 an elastic strip 20 adapted to engage the buckle, but this buckle and strip are not necessary except in abnormally large size and form.

For the purpose of plaiting the lower portion of this garment to give it a plaited efi'ect there is removably attached around the waist an elastic belt 25 provided with the usual buckle 26.

In the assembling and using this tempo,- rary waist and a portion of the skirt the arms of the persons are placed through the arm holes 12, and the buttons 10 are brought into engagement with the button holes 8, then the yielding of the Jersey cloth will adjust itself to all the irregularities of the corset, and the straps 15 being slightly separated from each other will yield sufliciently to adapt one garment to persons of a large variety of size and form. Then in order to give the skirt portion the appearance of a skirt the belt 25 is adjusted and the garment is plaited over the hips and held by the belt and in this manner of adjustment of the garment the person on whom the adjustment is made, can readily see how her outer dress would fit and appear over the adjusted corset as well as though she had actually redressed herself with her own dress, both as to the waist and skirt appearance. If in making the adjustment it is found that the person is of abnormally slender waist line then the buckle 18 may be adjusted to meet such a contingency.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, a garment for the purposes specified formed in sections of different widths of yielding material extending below the waist line to nearly the knees, buttons on one of the outer sections adapted to engage button holes on the edge of the other outer section, elastic strips varying in length and set nearly contiguous to each other for uniting the sections together beneath the arm holes, and an elastic belt adapted to hold the lower portion below the waist line in a gathered or plaited condition.

2. In a device of the character described, a garment' for the purposes specified of yielding material formed in sections of dif :ferent Widths and extending below the waist line and forming the upper portion of a skirt, means for uniting the outer longitudinal edges of the outer sections together, elastic strips of varying lengths, shortest in length at the waist line and increasing in length from the Waist line to the bottom of the garment said strips set a short distance apart a buckle on one of the strips at 15 and near the waist line, and an elastic belt around the garment at the waist line to plait or gather and hold the plaits in a plaited position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

LIMA S. CARROLL.

WVitnesses M. M. CADY, A. B. HANSHAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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