US2028810A - Shirt - Google Patents

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J. L. SHAW Jam. 28, QB,

SHIRT Filed July 28I 1954 Wvg/vm@ Jr-JHN Lo DGE SHAW' Patented Jan. 28, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application July 28, 1934, Serial No. 737,372 In Great Britain July 31, 1933 1 Claim.

This invention relates to shirts mainly for sports use, by means of which braces or a belt worn to support the wearers trousers or a skirt can be concealed from View.

The object of the invention is to provide a shirt of this kind of simple design and which requires no adjusting or manipulation by the wearer.

For the above purpose, the shirt has a dependingexternal shallow pleat at and around the waist, concealing, by extending over, slits through which the buttonholed tabs of braces Worn beneath the shirt can extend to the buttons of trousers. According to the invention, the pleat is formed permanently in the material of the shirt by being secured, for example by stitching, along the upper border to the body portion of the shirt.

The provision of an overhanging pleat around the waist of a shirt is advantageous apart from enabling braces or a belt to be concealed. The three thicknesses oi material around the waist formed by the fold protect the lumbar regions oi the wearer and if the trousers or other garments are self-supporting or are supported by a belt the fold conceals the top of the garment and imparts a neat appearance to the wearers apparel.

The invention is illustrated by way of example on the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Fig. 1 is a front View of a shirt, and

Fig. 2 is a dodged section through the shirt on line 2 2 at the back and line 23--2a at the front.

a is a shirt of usual sports pattern except that an excess of material is provided in the direction ofthe length of the body portion of the shirt.

This excess length of material is folded into a pleat b around the waist portion of the shirt a,

and such pleat b is rendered permanent by a line of fine stitching c around the top border thereof.

Slits d are formed in the material of the shirt a beneath the pleat b through which slits the tabs of braces may be passed for securing to trouser buttons.

A buttonholed tab e shown in dotted lines on Fig. l may also be provided attached to the shirt a by sewing centrally of the front thereof beneath the pleat b. This tab e when secured to a trouser button will prevent the shirt a from working upwards owing to movement of the wearer.

In the case of a knitted garment, alternatively to rendering the pleat permanent by stitching, the excess of material may be secured at the upper border by interkmtting juxta-opposed rows of stitches in the several thicknesses of material, along the line c Fig. l. Such a process is known as grafting.

The pleat may be constricted at the bottom edge by an elastic band or may merely hang free over the waist band of the trousers, although for appearance sake it preferably more or less snugly ts the wearer.

The invention is obviously applicable to ladies and childrens shirts.

I claim:

In a shirt garment, a body portion having a three-ply transverse pleat formed in the material of and at the waist of said body portion, said three-ply pleat having slits in the innermost ply and concealed by the outer plies thereof, and stitches extending through the three plies of said pleat at the upper fold thereof and above said slits.

JOHN LODGE SHAW.

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