Posterior-enhancing shapewear garment
AssigneeSpanx, Inc.
InventorsNatalie Weirtz, Angelica Melendez, Elena Novosiolova
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Abstract
Shapewear can be used to enhance the appearance of a wearer's buttocks. Typical buttock-enhancing garments include construction that is visible from the exterior and do not provide a natural shape. The garment disclosed herein has an exterior smoothing layer covering an interior construction. The interior construction includes an inner pocket layer and an outer pocket layer attached to an inner garment layer, thus suspending the pockets in the interior of the garment. Pads can be placed in the pockets. The pads and the interior pocket construction provides natural shape to the wearer without compression or bulk.
Claims20
A buttocks-enhancing shapewear garment comprising:
- an outer garment layer, an inner garment layer, an outer pocket layer, an inner pocket layer, a right buttock pad, a left buttock pad, an elongated crotch panel, and a waistband;
- wherein the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer are configured to cover a buttocks area of the wearer;
- wherein the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer are attached to the inner garment layer at a pocket perimeter edge such that the outer pocket layer is between the inner pocket layer and the outer garment layer;
- wherein the outer pocket layer is attached to the waistband at a top outer pocket edge;
- wherein the outer pocket layer and a top inner pocket edge of the inner pocket layer define an upper pocket opening;
- wherein a center seam extends inferiorly from the waistband through the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer, the center seam separating the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer into a right pocket and a left pocket, the right pocket configured to hold the right buttock pad and the left pocket configured to hold the left buttock pad;
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- wherein a crotch seam that extends around the elongated crotch panel attaches an edge portion of the elongated crotch panel to an edge portion of the right pocket, an edge portion of the left pocket, an edge portion of the outer garment layer, and an edge portion of the inner garment layer;
- wherein the outer garment layer at least partially covers the outer pocket layer, thereby compressing the outer pocket layer.
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