Versatile stretch knit garment
OwnerNathaniel P. Jonesinventor
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Abstract
The garment can be worn in any one of many different ways and is especially adaptable to cover the upper torso of the wearer as a halter-like garment. The garment includes a substantially flat double stretch knit body including a base portion and two separate upstanding portions formed integrally with the base portion, the upstanding portions diverging away from the center line of the body at the upper end thereof.
Claims10
A versatile garment which is especially adapted to be worn as an item of brief female outerwear and which can be worn in many different ways to provide many different appearances comprising a structure which is substantially symmetrical about a center-line including a substantially flat double stretch knit body including a base portion and two separate upstanding portions formed integrally with said base portion,
- said upstanding portions being substantially straight and equal in vertical length and diverging away from the center-line at the upper ends thereof,
- said upstanding portions each being uniformly tapered to substantially a point at the upper end thereof,
- the unstretched length of said upstanding portions measured from the bottom of said base portion being more than fifty percent greater than the chest measurement of the intended wearer,
- the unstretched basic width of said base portion being about equal to four tenths of said chest measurement,
- the separation between said upstanding portions beginning at a vertical dimension measured from the bottom of said base portion which is about equal to one third of said chest measurement when said garment is in the unstretched condition.
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