Method of manufacturing overshoes

A method of manufacturing overshoes made from an elongated rectangular flexible sheet of material, comprising the following steps:

• (a) gathering the sheet by stitching first and second parallel elastic strips on the opposite side edge portions respectively of said sheet;
• (aa) gathering the sheet by stitching a third elastic strip on a narrow longitudinal intermediate center line portion of said sheet, wherein a downturned flange separating said two sheet flaps is defined.
• (b) folding the sheet along its longitudinal center line to form two flaps and to bring the two gathered side edge portions in respective abutting register;
• (c) with a cutting member, weakening narrow sections of said sheet flaps tranversely to the axis of said longitudinal center line, at regular intervals;
• (d) with a bonding member, cross-bonding the sheet flaps at both edge portions defined by each one of said weakened narrow sections of the sheet;
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• (e) manually pulling apart two adjacent segments defined between each pair of successive said transverse weakened sections, outwardly from the common transverse weakened section;
• wherein an overshoe is thereby obtained whenever needed by detachment of the desired segment of sheet of material along that common line of bonding.