Waist-fastening, hip-encompassing apparel with at least one concealed storage compartment

Valuables security-enhancing wrap-around apparel, comprising:

• a wrap-around garment body made of at least one layer of flexible clothing material and having at least one fastening means for releasably attaching said apparel securely around a wearer's waist, said wrap-around garment body having a size and shape which when fastened to a wearer's waist substantially conceals and aesthetically covers portions of the wearer's hips, buttocks, upper legs and lower stomach, and said apparel further comprising a rear apparel portion which extends downwardly past the wearer's buttocks to a rear lower region of the apparel to define a concealed three-dimensional (3D) maximum volume proximate to a rear upper region of the wearer's legs;
• said concealed 3D maximum volume having a height dimension extending upwardly from a lower end of said rear apparel portion to a point proximate to a rearward-most portion of the wearer's buttocks, a width dimension up to that of the width of the wearer's buttock's, and a depth dimension being defined between a lower inward-facing interior surface of said rear apparel portion and rearward-facing surface contours of the wearer's body below said rearward-most portion of the wearer's buttocks;
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• adjoining an interior portion of said wrap-around garment body is at least one fully-concealed compartment having a storage capacity up to that of said 3D maximum volume to securely store and conceal valuables within the 3D volume in an out-of-sight, out-of-mind manner, and whereby the outer surface or exterior appearance of said apparel is not altered by any stored valuables.

A method for providing valuables security-enhancing wrap-around apparel and releasably fastening the apparel around the waist of a wearer, comprising the steps of:

• 1. sizing and shaping to a prospective wearer size, a wrap-around garment body made of at least one layer of flexible clothing material to substantially conceal and aesthetically cover portions of the prospective wearer's hips, buttocks, upper legs and a lower stomach region;
• 2. adjoining apparel fastening means to said wrap-around garment body;
• 3. determining a substantial, concealed three-dimensional (3D) volume between a rear lower portion of the apparel and proximate to a rear upper region of the wearer's legs;
• 4. determining a size and shape of at least one fully-concealed compartment up to that of said 3D volume;
• 5. making said at least one fully-concealed compartment and suspending it from an interior portion of said wrap-around garment body at a location wherein valuables, when stored in said fully-concealed compartment, will be located within a region of said 3D volume in an out-of-sight, out-of-mind manner;
• 6. wrapping said wrap-around garment body and said apparel fastening means around a wearer's waist with said at least one fully-concealed compartment located in a region within said 3D volume, and engaging the apparel fastening means to secure said wrap-around apparel to the wearer's waist;
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• 7. when the wearer subsequently wishes to remove the wrap-around apparel, disengaging said apparel fastening means to remove the apparel from around the wearer's waist.