Athletic garment with adjustable leg shields

A garment for protecting a person's legs from impact forces consisting of:

• a pants having a lower body portion and right and left legs joined to the body portion for accommodating the lower body and legs of a person, a first thigh shield, first releasable fasteners connecting the first thigh shield on the right leg of the pants, a second thigh shield, and second releasable fasteners connecting the second thigh shield to the left leg of the pants, said first and second thigh shields each comprising a flat and flexible pad having a compressible open cell plastic core having opposite sides, a first outer skin of air impervious material joined to one side of the core, a second skin of air impervious material joined to the other side of the core, a plurality of vertical and horizontal rows of spaced apart holes extended through said first and second skins and pad to allow air to flow through said first and second skins and out of and into the core when subjected to an impact force the first releasable fasteners comprising a first pair of spaced horizontal strips having first connectable loop members secured to the right leg of the pants, and a pair of laterally spaced vertical strips having second connectable hook members secured to the first thigh shield, said first and second connectable loop and hook members releasably interengaging each other to connect the first thigh shield in a selected vertical and lateral position on the right leg of the pants, the second releasable fastener comprising a pair of spaced horizontal strips having first connectable loop members secured to the left leg of the pants and a second pair of spaced vertical strips having second connectable hook members secured to the second thigh shield, said first and second loop and hook members of the second releasable fastener releasably interengaging each other to connect the second thigh shield in a selected vertical and lateral position on the left leg of the pants.