Garment
AssigneeWacoal Corp.
InventorsTakato Yamada, Yuka Kitagawa
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Abstract
The present invention embodies a garment which can smoothen motions of its wearer by a new technique, which is totally different from that of exerting a tightening force on a muscle, according to findings that the range of motion of a joint can be widened if a structure for extending and gathering respective parts of a skin gathering and leaving when the joint works in relation to bending/extension or abduction/adduction of the wearer is added to the garment and that the range of motion of the joint can be widened if a structure for moving the skin along a direction of motion of a muscle when the joint works in relation to turning of the wearer is added to the garment, on the basis of a close relationship between a motion of the skin when the joint works and an extending direction of a tension line.
Claims3
A garment comprising:
- a main part formed by a material having elasticity, said material of the main part adapted to tightly fit a wearer's body, including a pair of buttocks of the wearer's body, the main part including a waist part and a crotch part;
- and
- a plurality of arch-shaped line parts,
- wherein each arch-shaped line part has at a first end and a second end, and an entire length of each arch-shaped line part being between said first end and said second end,
- wherein each arch-shaped line part is disposed between the waist part and the crotch part, each arch-shaped line part being parallel to another arch-shaped line part of the plurality of arch-shaped line parts along the entire length of each arch-shaped line part, each arch-shaped line part adapted to have a stretching force greater than a stretching force of the main part and exhibiting a greater radius of curvature when the garment is worn than when the garment is not worn, each arch-shaped line part having a convex side and a concave side;
- and,
- wherein each arch-shaped line part is a knit structure, a resin print, or an opal finish, and each arch-shaped line part is adapted to be disposed in a region corresponding to a center of the pair of buttocks, wherein the concave side faces the waist part and the convex side faces the crotch part;
- wherein the garment has an unworn configuration and a worn configuration,
- wherein in the unworn configuration, the entire length of each arch-shaped line part is a first value and each arch-shaped line part has a first radius of curvature, and in the worn configuration, the entire length of each arch-shaped line part is a second value and each arch-shaped line part has a second radius of curvature,
- wherein the second value is greater than the first value and the second radius of curvature is greater than the first radius of curvature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.