Anti-creep waist-clothing stay device and method of reinforcing crotch-adjacent inner-seam areas

A method of reinforcing a waist-clothing to prevent cloth riding up and bunching in the crotch area, the waist-clothing being of the type having two leg-portions with inner-seams forming a crotch, the improvement comprising:

• providing a pre-assembled anti-creep waist-clothing stay device including a patch having front and back surfaces and sized for application to a crotch-adjacent inner-seam area of the waist-clothing;
• and a stay strip affixed to the back surface, the strip being positioned and sized such that the patch extends beyond edges of the strip, the patch includes a heat-activated adhesive;
• placing the stay device on a crotch-adjacent inner-seam area of the waist-clothing with the back of the patch facing the leg-portion;
• and
• pressing hot iron on the front surface of the patch for iron-on activation of the heat-reactive adhesive such that the patch adheres at its back surface to the waist-clothing, thereby securing the stay strip in a position to prevent the waist-clothing from riding up and bunching in the crotch area.

An anti-creep waist-clothing comprising:

• a waist-clothing having two leg portions together forming a crotch, each leg portion including an inner-seam extending from the crotch down along the leg portion;
• and
• a pre-assembled anti-creep stay device adhered to a crotch-adjacent inner-seam area of the waist-clothing, the pre-assembled stay device including a stay strip affixed to a patch which is in turn affixed to the waist-clothing,
• whereby the waist-clothing is free of cloth riding up and bunching in the crotch area.

A reinforced anti-creep waist-clothing comprising:

• two leg portions together forming a crotch, each leg portion including an inner-seam extending from the crotch down along the leg portion and having overlapping cloth forming a seam-allowance;
• and
• an anti-creep stay strip affixed within the seam-allowance in a crotch-adjacent area,
• whereby cloth of the waist-clothing is restrained from riding up and bunching in the crotch area.

In a method of making a waist-clothing with two leg portions together forming a crotch, each leg portion including an inner-seam extending from the crotch down along the leg portion and having overlapping cloth forming a seam-allowance, the improvement comprising:

• providing an anti-creep stay strip;
• placing the stay strip within the seam-allowance in a crotch-adjacent area;
• and
• affixing the stay device to the seam-allowance,
• thereby to restrain cloth of the waist-clothing from riding up and bunching in the crotch area.