USD17886S - Design for a lady s walking-skirt - Google Patents

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 17,886, dated November 15` 1887,

Application filed October 15, 1887. Serial No. 252,492. Tenn of' patent 3i years.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY TURNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BUTTERIOK PUBLISHING COMPANY, (LMITED'.) OF SAME PLACE.

DESIGN FOR A LADYS WALKING-SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 17,886, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed October 15, 1887. Serial No. S25-2,492. Term of patent 35 years.

T; all whom, it 11i/ary concern:

Be it known that I, MARY TURNER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented and produced a new and original Design for a Pattern of a Ladys \Valking`Skirt;

land I do hereby declare that the engraved prints accompanying this specification convey to any one accustomed to using paper patterns a clear understanding of how a garment made up by the pattern will appear.

The design shows a round walking-skirt that displays a left-side drapery that is quite short at its back edge, descends to the edge of the skirt at its front edge, and exhibits a cascaded lower edge and kilt-plaits reaching from the belt; a right-side drapery falling to the edge of the skirt at its back edge, and exhibiting side plaits from the belt to the lower edge in front ofthe back edge and a group of nptnrning plaits below a long loop at its front edge, where it is raised in curved outline; a full back drapery that falls to the edge of the skirt at the right side, where it displays downwardturning plaits near the top, and is raised in curved outline at the left side, where it eX- hibits a cluster of backward-turning plaits beneath a long loop.

What Iclairn as my invention, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, is

The design for a ladys walking-skirt, as shown in the engraved prints accompanying this specification.

MARY TURNER. Vitnesses:

JAs. H. MERSEREAU, WILLARD B. THoRP.

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