Wearing article for wearing in pressed relation to human body surface
AssigneeWacoal Corp.
InventorMasami Fujimoto
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Abstract
A wearing article with a tapering function for wearing on a human body in pressed relation to a surface of the human body, has a heavily-stretchable portion which has an excellent tightening force and is adapted to be held against a required portion of the human body so as to extend generally along muscle fibers over a region from a tendon to a central portion of the muscle. The remainder of the wearing article is defined by an easily-stretchable portion. With this arrangement, by merely wearing this wearing article on the required portion of the body, the heavily-stretchable portion tightens only a required portion of the body to support the central portion of the relevant muscle, thereby easily achieving a taping function.
Claims7
A wearing article for wearing on a human body, said article including a supporter for wearing on a lower leg of the human body in pressed relation to a surface of the lower leg, the supporter comprising a heavily-stretchable potion in the shape of a band forming a portion of the supporter and an easily stretchable potion forming the remainder of the supporter, the heavily-stretchable portion being arranged to extend substantially longitudinally of the supporter along at least one lateral portion of a rear part of the supporter which is to be contacted with a rear surface of the lower leg, in such a manner that when the supporter is worn on the lower leg including a calf, the heavily-stretchable portion extends from an upper portion of the rear part of the supporter to a lower portion of the rear part of the supporter over at least one of the lateral portions of the calf without passing over either a dorsal or a ventral portion of the calf.
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