An athletic shorts garment apparatus with improved interfemoral gusset and surrounding modesty panel comprising:
- a) a waistband complex having an anterior face connected to a posterior face along a left waistband seam and a right waistband seam, said waistband complex having a top shorts complex seam edge and a bottom shorts complex seam edge;
- b) a shorts garment complex having a left leg structure and a right leg structure connected along a central anterior seam and a central posterior seam, said shorts garment complex having a top shorts garment complex seam edge, a left leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge and a right leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge, said left leg structure having an anterior left interfemoral gusset seam edge and a posterior left interfemoral gusset seam edge, said right leg structure having an anterior right interfemoral gusset seam edge and a posterior right interfemoral gusset seam edge, said top shorts garment complex seam edge is attached to the bottom shorts complex seam edge of the waistband complex;
- c) an improved interfemoral gusset comprising two continuous panels of a same shape in a double-layered arrangement connected at boundary edges, wherein the improved interfemoral gusset is attached to the shorts garment complex along the anterior right interfemoral gusset seam edge, the posterior right interfemoral gusset seam edge, the anterior left interfemoral gusset seam edge, and the posterior left interfemoral gusset seam edge, said improved interfemoral gusset having an oblong hexagonal shape;
- d) a modesty panel having a top modesty panel seam edge and a bottom modesty panel hem edge, where said top modesty panel seam edge is attached to the bottom waistband complex seam edge;
- e) an angled left leg cuff piece having a fold forming a dual layer cuff attached to the left leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge and attached to the improved interfemoral gusset and having a diameter at a bottommost edge that is smaller than a diameter at a topmost edge of the angled left leg cuff piece that is attached to the left leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge;
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- f) an angled right leg cuff piece having a fold forming a dual layer cuff attached to the right leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge and attached to the improved interfemoral gusset and having a diameter at a bottommost edge that is smaller than a diameter at a topmost edge of the angled right leg cuff piece that is attached to the right leg structure bottom shorts garment seam edge.