Womens soft fabric garment with integral brassiere

In a women's garment, the combination comprising

• (a) a bodice having a soft fabric front portion which is elastically stretchable to conform to the bust of the wearer,
• (b) an elastic band spaced inwardly from the bodice and located in a loop shaft path everywhere free of attachment to the bodice and adapted to extend substantially completely about the body of the wearer so as to tension the band,
• (c) and a fabric panel attached to the bodice above the level of the band to downwardly hang free of the bodice and freely suspending the band to extend crosswise of said bodice soft fabric front portion so that when tensioned the band will anchor a front panel portion of the fabric panel beneath and in supporting relation to the bust of the wearer,
• (d) said band suspending panel including a front portion having left and right sections each consisting of soft, two-way stretchable fabric with breast cup configuration adapted to independently conform to the bust of the wearer, inwardly of said bodice soft elastically stretchable fabric front portion of the bodice, said sections being free of attachment to said front portion of the bodice.
• (e) and a tape-like insert extending upwardly from the band medially of said front panel portion and connected therewith, said insert being non-stretchable, and an elastically stretchable tape extending crosswise above said insert and from which said panel front portion left and right sections and said bodice front portion are suspended.