Clothes for small children including baby and infant
AssigneeWacoal Corp.
InventorsHiyoshi Fujita, Hisako Komori
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Abstract
Clothes which are used for small children including babies and infants are formed of elastic knitted fabric having thread knitted by a knitting machine. The thread of a belly part of the clothes, a crotchpart thereof, sidepart thereof and sleeve part thereof are knitted by a different method to differentiate expansiveness of each part. The belly part of the clothes bulges and wraps a baby's belly three-dimensionally, and is more expansive than other parts of the clothes.
Claims18
Clothes for small children, wherein said clothes is an upper body garment having a front and back portion continuously formed of stretchable knitted fabric, said clothes comprising:
- a belly portion, located in said front portion,
- wherein a thread of the belly portion of the front portion is knitted to bulge the belly part thereof to wrap a belly three-dimensionally and allow the belly portion to be more stretchable three-dimensionally than other parts of the clothes so as to provide a bulged area that does not compress a belly of a small child.
Clothes for small children, wherein said clothes is a lower body garment having a front and rear portion continuously formed of stretchable knitted fabric, said clothes comprising:
- a belly portion, located in said front portion, formed with a plain stitch so as to provide a bulged area that does not compress a belly of a small child, wherein said belly portion is more stretchable three-dimensionally than other parts of the clothes;
- a crotch portion, located at an area connecting said front portion and said back portion, formed with a tammy stitch so as to hold a weight of a baby's diaper;
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- a waist part positioned at an upper end of said lower body garment formed of elastic thread knitted by a braid-over-braid knitting method and not sewn.
Clothes for small children, wherein said clothes is a one-piece garment having upper body and lower body portions continuously formed of stretchable knitted fabric, said clothes comprising:
- a belly portion formed with a plain stitch so as to provide a bulged area that does not compress a belly of a small child, wherein said belly portion is more stretchable three-dimensional than other parts of the clothes;
- a crotch portion, located at an area connecting said front portion and said back portion, formed with a tammy stitch so as to hold a weight of a baby's diaper;
- a preparation-absorbing stitch on said back portion;
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- a part corresponding to a knee of each of right and left legs which is formed of thread knitted by a plain stitch to allow the part to be more expansive lengthwise and widthwise than other parts of the legs;
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- a periphery of the part is formed of thread knitted by a float-mesh stitch to allow the periphery part to be expansive in a small degree.
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