Abstract: Outerwear garment made of circularly knitted fabric in which two flattened circularly knitted tube portions (1, 2) are slitted open by a predetermined length, commencing from one end, along a longitudinal edge and in which the slitted edges, beginning at the end, are sewn together by a length less than the slitted open length.

Abstract: Method of making a panty hose by circular knitting in which courses of stitches (3) of wrapped elastic yarn and preferably courses (4) of stitches of polyamide and/or natural fiber yarn are knitted over the height of the panty hose (1), whereby for attaining a holding function a greater number of, or tighter, elastic stitches are knitted, or thicker elastic yarn than in the leg portion is used, at least in portions of the girdle portion (2) formed without a holding band, or that for attaining the holding function courses (3) of elastic stitches of lesser height and/or of thicker yarn are knitted than polyamide stitch courses (4) provided in the girdle portion (2) and preferably alternatingly knitted with courses of elastic yarn.

Abstract: Garment snugly fitting to a body, in particular a bathing suit, having a front section (1), a back section (2), a crotch section (4) and at least one suspended section (5), the front section and the back section being circularly knitted substantially in a hose-like configuration from elastic yarn which over the extend of the garment is knitted at different tensions and/or mesh sizes, so that the garment follows the contour of the body, the elastic yarn in each row consisting of an elastic core yarn and at least one surface yarn covering it.