Bottom clothes
AssigneeWacoal Corp.
InventorsMai Sudo, Risa Saka
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Abstract
According to the present girdle 1, when a wearer walks and a leg is moved backward, a forward load is applied to gluteus maximus muscle by a first tightening portion. Then, a reflective action of a muscle (muscle stimulation) to resist this load acts on the gluteus maximus muscle, and then the leg is moved further backward, resulting in a wearer's waist being twisted backward greatly. Further, a forward load is applied to elevated gluteus medius muscle by this backward waist twisting by a second tightening portion, resulting in the waist being twisted forward this time. Then, such a waist twisting motion is enhanced, which necessarily trains the wearer's groups of abdominal muscles, and a shape-up effect of the periphery of abdominal region may be obtained without the wearer performing intentional exercises.
Claims6
A bottom garment comprising:
- a main body portion having stretching properties;
- and
- strip-shaped first, second, third and fourth tightening portions having stronger tightening force than the tightening force of the main body portion;
- wherein, in a rear view of a wearer's body in which the wearer is properly wearing the bottom garment, the first and fourth tightening portions are located on the left-hand side of the main body portion and the second and third tightening portions are located on the right-hand side of the main body portion;
- wherein the first tightening portion runs from the wearer's crotch along the wearer's left sulcus gluteus, past a corresponding position just above the wearer's left great trochanter, and extends obliquely upward to a proximity of the wearer's umbilicus;
- wherein the second tightening portion runs from the wearer's crotch along the wearer's right sulcus gluteus, past a corresponding position just above the wearer's right great trochanter, and extends obliquely upward to a proximity of the wearer's umbilicus;
- wherein the third tightening portion runs obliquely downward from a proximity of the wearer's lumbar vertebrae along an upper part of the wearer's right gluteus maximus muscle to connect to the second tightening portion at a corresponding position just above the right great trochanter;
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- wherein the fourth tightening portion runs obliquely downward from a proximity of the wearer's lumbar vertebrae along an upper part of the wearer's left gluteus maximus muscle to connect to the first tightening portion at a corresponding position just above the left great trochanter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.