Fashion and functional garment stays
OwnerGeorge J. Partsch, IVinventor
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Abstract
An internal garment stay to detachably attach to a garment in the collar, or placket region. The garment may or may not need modification. Preferably, the garment is an off-the-shelf garment requiring no additional modification to receive these stays. The stays can have various configurations to facilitate insertion and usage, such has having appendages, curvatures, cut-outs, catches. Further, the internal stays can work with external stays such that external stays are visible from the outside so as to show a message, a slogan, a style, a logo (e.g., a sports team logo).
Claims19
A garment with a user-shapeable contour of material, wherein at least one stay is attached internally for purposes of providing a user-desirable shape to said garment, the garment comprising:
- a left having an outer and inner layers and a right placket region, at least one of which having an internal compartment disposed between said outer and inner layers;
- wherein the left and right placket regions each has a top terminal end terminating at a neck hole of the garment;
- the at least one stay disposed in said at least one internal compartment to provide a shape to the left or right placket region;
- wherein at least one of said left or right placket region has an opening leading to said internal compartment, and to receive said stay to pass therethrough;
- wherein the opening is disposed on an inner side, on a side, on a top, or on a bottom of the placket region;
- wherein the at least one stay is entirely planar and has an upper distal end which is disposed at the top terminal end of the left or right placket regions;
- wherein the garment is one selected from a group consisting of a jacket, a shirt, a polo shirt, a sport shirt, a buttoned shirt, a blazer, a suit jacket, a zipper-front jacket, a zipper-front shirt, a coat, a sweater, and a high collar shirt, jacket or coat.
A placket stay to provide shape to a placket of a garment, the placket stay comprises:
- a main body;
- a first appendage coupled to the main body;
- a second appendage coupled to the main body, and wherein the second appendage is longer than the main body;
- a cut-out channel disposed between the first and the second appendages;
- at least one of a left or right placket region having an opening leading to an internal compartment disposed between an outer and an inner layers of said right or left placket regions, and to receive said stay to pass therethrough;
- wherein the left and the right placket regions each has a top end terminating at a neck hole of the garment;
- wherein the opening is disposed on the inner side of the placket region and on at least one of a side, on a top, or on a bottom part of the placket region;
- and
- wherein all parts of the placket stay is made from a single-piece planar material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.