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US 8,235,766 B2Granted
Full torso maternity garment
OwnerSabina Melarti, Valerie Caroninventors
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Abstract
A maternity garment, which provides mild support to shape a woman's body and to act as a suspender for bottoms such as pants, shorts, or skirts that may be ill fitting due to body changes as a result of pregnancy, wherein the preferred garment has at least one shoulder strap, a belly panel, a hip band, two side panels, and a back panel, and is made of high performance fabric with varying degrees of compression.
Claims27
A maternity garment comprising:
- at least one shoulder strap;
- a belly panel connected with the shoulder strap and including a top panel section disposed toward the at least one shoulder strap and a bottom panel section remote from the at least one shoulder strap;
- a hip band extending from the belly panel opposite the at least one shoulder strap;
- two side panels extending from the belly panel between the at least one shoulder strap and the hip band;
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- a back panel disposed between the two side panels opposite the belly panel;
- wherein said maternity garment is dimensionally configured to cover the torso of a wearer, extending through the hips, and
- wherein said maternity garment is made of at least one resiliently stretchable material configured to provide a smoothing effect to the physical appearance of the wearer by compression, and wherein said belly panel is constructed to deliver a multiple degrees of compression at least by configuring said top panel section to provide a first compression and configuring said bottom panel section to provide a second degree of compression that is greater than said first degree of compression.
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A garment, comprising:
- a wearable article adapted to be worn at a position proximate the bottom of the breast of the wearer and extending at least to the hips of the wearer, the article including a U-shaped front panel peripheral edge defined proximate an upper edge of said wearable article, wherein said U-shaped front panel peripheral edge is adapted to scoop underneath the breasts of the wearer, said wearable article further comprising,
- means for delivering at least a minimum of shaping support to a woman's body, and
- means for performing a suspender function.
A garment, comprising:
- a wearable article adapted to be worn at a position proximate the bottom of the breast of the wearer and extending at least to the hips of the wearer;
- a U-shaped front panel peripheral edge defined proximate an upper edge of said wearable article, wherein said U-shaped front panel peripheral edge is adapted to scoop underneath the breasts of the wearer;
- a front panel adapted for wear proximate a region defined by said U-shaped front panel peripheral edge;
- means for delivering at least a minimum of shaping support to a woman's body, and
- means for performing a suspender function.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.