Garment Accessory Attachment Mechanism

A garment attachment module for attaching an accessory to a garment, the accessory having an exposed side and a hidden side, the garment attachment module comprising:

• an elongated support member extending between first and second ends, and having an outer side and an inner side;
• a garment attachment provided on the inner side to removably secure the inner side of the support member on a portion of the garment;
• an accessory attachment provided on the outer side to removably secure the hidden side of the accessory on the outer side of the support member;
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• a coupling mechanism in at least one of the first and second ends of the support member, for coupling the first or second end of the support member to the first or second end of a support member of an adjacent garment attachment module, whereby coupling adjacent garment attachment modules allows adjusting an overall length of the garment attachment assembly to fit a length of the portion of the garment.

A garment accessory assembly securing an accessory to a garment, said garment accessory assembly comprising:

• a plurality of garment attachment modules coupled together in an end-to-end configuration, each garment attachment module comprising:
• an elongated support member extending between first and second ends, and having an outer side and an inner side;
• a garment attachment on the inner side securing the inner side of the support member on a portion of the garment;
• an accessory attachment on the outer side securing the accessory to the outer side;
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• a coupling mechanism coupling the first or second end of the support member to the first or second end of an adjacent support member;
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• a garment accessory secured to each of the plurality of garment attachment modules, and superposed thereon to hide the same, the garment accessory comprising:
• an exposed side facing away from the garment;
• and
• a hidden side superposed on the garment attachment modules,
• the hidden side comprising a support attachment engaged with the respective accessory attachments in each of the plurality of garment attachment modules.

A method for attaching a garment accessory to a garment, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of elongated support members, each support member extending between first and second ends and having an outer side and an inner side;
• coupling the plurality of support members in an end-to-end configuration to form an attachment assembly with a length matching a length of a portion of the garment;
• removably securing the attachment assembly to the portion of the garment, by clamping each of the plurality of support members to the portion of the garment, with their inner side superposed on the portion of the garment, and their outer side facing away from the garment;
• superposing the garment accessory on the outer sides of the support members, thereby completely hiding the attachment assembly under the garment accessory;
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• securing the garment accessory to the attachment assembly in the superposed arrangement of step d), the garment accessory thereby being secured to the garment via the attachment assembly.