Rigid collar stand and garment with same
AssigneeTalon Technologies, Inc.
InventorHerman Sydney Roup
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Abstract
A garment includes a collar stand attached to a garment body. The collar stand is formed from an inner piece and an outer piece, and wherein at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece comprises a fabric fused with a rigid fusible substrate. The fabric fused with a rigid fusible substrate has between 0% to 5% stretch, preferably between 0% and 3% stretch, and more preferably between 0% and 2% stretch in at least one direction thereof, and the fabric fused with a rigid fusible substrate has between 0% to 5% shrinkage, preferably between 0% and 3% shrinkage, and more preferably between 0% and 2% shrinkage in said at least one direction thereof.
Claims40
A garment comprising:
- a collar stand attached to a garment body,
- wherein said collar stand is formed from an inner piece and an outer piece, and wherein at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece comprises a fabric fused with a rigid fusible substrate,
- wherein the fabric comprises a compacted and/or preshrunk self-fabric, and wherein the fabric fused with a rigid fusible substrate has between 0% and 2% shrinkage in at least one direction thereof,
- wherein the inner piece comprises a first fabric fused with a first rigid fusible substrate, and the outer piece comprises a second fabric fused with a second rigid fusible substrate.
A garment comprising:
- a collar stand attached to a garment body,
- wherein said collar stand is formed from an inner piece and an outer piece, and
- wherein the inner piece comprises a first fabric fused with a first rigid fusible substrate and the outer piece comprises a second fabric fused with a second rigid fusible substrate,
- wherein the first fabric comprises a first compacted and/or preshrunk self-fabric, and
- wherein the second fabric comprises a second compacted and/or preshrunk self-fabric, and
- wherein the inner piece has between 0% and 3% shrinkage in a first at least one direction thereof;
- and
- wherein the outer piece has between 0% and 3% shrinkage in a second at least one direction thereof.
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