Abstract: An apparatus used in adjusting a garment or a piece of fabric and a method for implementing the same. The apparatus includes a bottom piece of fabric attached to a top piece of fabric and a piece of elastic sized to fit between the top and bottom pieces of fabric. The top piece of fabric includes two openings, one toward each end, through which the elastic piece fits. The elastic piece includes a plurality apertures sized to be able to receive buttons, which buttons are attached to the top and bottom pieces of fabric and buttoned through a corresponding aperture in the elastic piece.

Abstract: A reversible fastener that can be positioned in one of two alternate display positions without removing the fastener from the underlying garment is provided. The unique configuration of the fastener allows it to be rotatably coupled to a garment in a manner that facilitates the reversibility of the fastener without requiring its removal. The reversible fastener is useful in a variety of applications including garments, jewelry and footwear. Further, one embodiment of the present invention is also useful in providing a structural anchoring assembly.

Abstract: In a button which includes a button body and a tack member adapted to be joined with the button body when attaching the button to a garment fabric, the button body has a contractible and stretchable hollow hub in the form of a double tube composed of an outer tube integral with a button back and projecting downwardly therefrom and an inner tube separate from the button back and telescopically connected to the outer tube. A spring is mounted between the inner and outer tubes so as to normally urge the inner tube toward the button head.

Abstract: A clutch for securing together component parts of jewelry such as decorative pins, clasps, earrings, necklaces, brooches, and so forth. The coacting body and pin construction herein has a lost-motion detent, whereby to provide for adjustable attachment to ear lobes, clothing, and so forth, of varying thicknesses. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the lost-motion effect is constrained by sliding frictional engagement between complete turns of a coil spring provided in said body, and the shank of the pin and the detent effect is maintained simultaneously by a radially inturned end of the spring extending into the annular groove on the shank. The groove is wider than the inturned end, allowing for movement thereof longitudinally of the pin without disengagement.