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US 5,327,586 AGranted
Dance skirt
AssigneeGretchen Storer Evans
InventorsGretchen S. Evans, Heather M. Reddy
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Abstract
A dance skirt is made up of overlapping, downwardly divergent panels, each panel individually connected at its upper edge to a common waistband but otherwise unconnected to one another so as to extend freely away from the waistband, the waistband having free ends releasably connectable to one another including tie members at the free ends, one of which is passed through an opening in a free end and tied to the other tie member so as to lay flat against the waistband.
Claims17
A dance skirt as an article of wearing apparel comprising:
- a waistband;
- and
- front, opposite side and back panels extending downwardly from said waistband, each said panel independently connected to said waistband for continuous downward extension therefrom and otherwise unconnected to one another, adjacent of said panels disposed in overlapping relation to one another, and each of said panels having downwardly divergent side edges extending into a lower common edge.
A dance skirt as an article of wearing apparel comprising:
- a waistband including means for adjusting the size of said waistband, said adjusting means including a pair of flexible tie members at free ends of said waistband;
- and
- front, opposite side and back panels extending downwardly from said waistband, each said panel independently connected to said waistband and unconnected to one another, adjacent of said panels disposed in overlapping relation to one another, said side panels overlapping opposite side edges of said front panel and said back panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.