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US 2011/0217902 A1Published application
Brassiere construction using multiple layers of fabric
AssigneeInvista North America S.A R.L.
InventorsJoyce I. BARAN, Petros Dafniotis, Douglas K. Farmer
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Abstract
A body-shaping garment and fabric is provided. The garment includes an inner fabric layer and an outer fabric layer. The inner fabric layer is placed in an angular orientation relative to the outer fabric layer. Further, the inner fabric layer and the outer fabric layer have sufficiently isotropic hysteresis.
Claims19
A body-shaping garment, comprising:
- a body-contacting portion for contacting a formable body area having an inner fabric layer and an outer fabric layer,
- wherein the inner fabric layer defines a first X-X′ axis and first Y-Y′ axis and the outer fabric layer defines a second X-X′ axis and second Y-Y′ axis, and the inner fabric layer and outer fabric layer are oriented such that the first X-X′ axis of the inner fabric layer is at a first angle ⊖1 to the second X-X′ axis of the outer fabric layer, and
- wherein the inner fabric layer and the outer fabric layer together provide a material having hysteresis values for each fabric layer with a coefficient of variation (S) value defined by:
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