Abstract: An article of clothing is provided and includes a substrate material including an inner surface and an outer surface disposed on an opposite side of the substrate material than the inner surface. The substrate material forming a body-receiving portion and a limb-receiving portion extending from the body-receiving portion, whereby the body-receiving portion includes a first opening sized for circumscribing a neck of the wearer and the limb-receiving portion includes a second opening sized for circumscribing a limb of the wearer. A flocking material is arranged adjacent the inner surface of the substrate material proximate at least one of the first opening and the second opening.

Abstract: A post-surgery, high-back, compression garment is described for post-operatively immobilizing surgically corrected tissues to ensure proper healing and provide molded gluteal-shaping power-net domes that preserve desired anatomic curvature enhancements and corrections in the gluteal regions of the human body during convalescence following contouring gluteoplasty procedures.

Abstract: The posterior-form enhancement device includes a garment and two posterior-form pads. Each posterior-form pad is formed by attaching one first posterior-form piece to one second posterior-form piece. The garment is used for covering the lower body part of a person, and in its rear side has two pockets adjacent to the posteriors of wearers for placing the posterior-form pads respectively. Each first posterior-form piece includes a bag for encasing a volume of gel. The second posterior-form pieces are respectively adjacent to the first posterior-form pieces in the pockets, wherein the first posterior-form piece is near an external surface away from wearers' posteriors of while the second posterior-form piece is near an internal surface adjacent to wearers' posteriors. The shape and size of the pockets are determined by the shape and size of the posterior-form pad. The posterior-form pads can be put into or taken out of the pockets.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a girdle which can improve posture by acting on the muscles around the pelvis, is easy to handle and can be worn with no uncomfortable feeling. An example of the present invention is a girdle (short girdle and long girdle) containing, in an area fitting over a wearer's body, a tightening portion for which the magnitude of a tightening force varies with areas. When the garment is being worn, the tightening fabric portion extends from the vicinity of an upper part of the buttocks cleft, passing the vicinities of upper parts of the right and left buttocks, to the vicinities of the right and left greater trochanters, and the tightening fabric portion may be made of material having a tightening force. Moreover, a body front tightening fabric portion is provided at the front of the garment.

Abstract: A shaping pant is made of tailored inner and outer layers of elastic clot, which are sewn together by using sewing machines; the shaping pant includes a front, a bottom, and a rear; the rear has a single-layer gathering portion at a middle thereof, which is substantially in the shape of a heart, curving and symmetric about a central line of the shaping pant; the single-layer gathering portion is sewn in position at edges thereof; therefore, air will travel through the single-layer gathering portion easily, and the wearer's butt will be lifted and shaped, looking rounder.

Abstract: A buttock lift support extends a lift band from each of a pair of elastic leg bands to a waistband so as to wrap around the buttocks of the wearer and exert an upward pressure thereon. Side, rear and front panels, and a thong strap can be incorporated to create a panty garment having the lift support integrated therein.

Abstract: Devices are described that reduce pain associated with menstruation and other conditions and that operate by pressing upon the sacral/parasacral regions of a woman's lower back. In preferred embodiments a tensioning apparatus applies pressure onto a generally flat part that distributes force into the sacral and parasacral regions but avoids the lumbar region. The devices may assume a variety of forms such as belts, straps and foundation garments that can exert high pressures and may exceed 100 torr in some cases.

Abstract: A lower torso shape enhancing garment for changing the appearance of a portion of the wearers body. The lower torso shape enhancing garment includes a short pant comprising a front portion, a rear portion and a pair of leg portions extend downwardly from the front and rear portions. A crotch area is located between the leg portions. The short pant comprises an upper opening defined by a waistband. The short pant comprises a pair of lower leg openings. The short pant comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface. A pair of rear pockets are formed in the short pant. The pockets are formed at laterally spaced locations on the rear portion of the short pant to position each of the pockets over a buttock of the wearer. Each of the pockets comprises an upper entry slit, spaced side boundaries, and a lower boundary. The upper entry slit opens into the interior surface of the short pant just below the upper opening.

Abstract: An undergarment (200) designed principally for a male user (214) to provide lifting support and shape enhancement for the buttock and crotch areas (210, 213). A first fabric (202) covers the buttock (210) and crotch areas (213) of a user (214). A second fabric (203) extends downwardly from the back and central area of the waistband (201) of the undergarment (200) to support and encircle the buttocks (210) and thence returns to the waistband (201) at the sides of the undergarment (200). A third fabric material (212) extends downwardly from both sides of the waistband (201) and encircles the crotch (213) to provide support and enhancement of the crotch area (213). The second and third fabrics (203, 212) are elasticized. The first material (202) is a cotton/spandex stretch fabric.

Abstract: A body shaping undergarment is disclosed. A plurality of fabric panels are fixed together to form the undergarment and define a first leg opening, a second leg opening and a waist opening. An elastic waist band is disposed around at least a portion of the circumference of the waist opening, and a first and a second elastic leg band are respectively disposed around at least a portion of a circumference of the first leg opening and the second leg opening. A pair of elastic buttock support panels are fixed to the undergarment and disposed so that each elastic buttock support panel elastically supports a respective buttock of a wearer. The pair of elastic buttock support panels is integrally fixed to a same fabric panel of the plurality of fabric panels, and each one of the pair of elastic buttock support panels is integrally fixed to a respective same fabric panel of the plurality of fabric panels as a the first elastic leg band and the second elastic leg band.

Abstract: A garment having provided with an inner lining for adjusting body shape of the buttocks and the abdomen. The garment is formed by combining woven fabrics together, each of which has a modulus of expansibility depending on a stretch direction from the weaving direction of the fabric. The buttocks regulating piece is oriented in a direction that the direction of the high modulus of expansibility of the fabric is selected to gather and push up the buttocks and is sewed between the front body and the back body, while an abdominal regulating piece is formed of at least two sheets, each oriented so that the direction of the low modulus of expansibility of the fabric is in the lateral direction to the abdomen. The sheets are sewed onto the front body so as to at leastartially overlap each other within the abdominal region including the lower abdominal region.

Abstract: This invention relates to a garment having a crotch part and the function of keeping an upward profile for the hip and buttock line comprising a main body covering at least a buttock region, and a band-shaped patch being stretchable in at least the longitudinal direction. The patch is attached to the portion from the vicinity of the back center of the lower part of a buttock obliquely upward to the side direction of the main body, wherein the part covering at least a buttock part of the main body comprises a stretchable fabric containing an elastic fiber and the stretchable patch comprises a stretchable fabric which substantially does not contain an elastic fiber.

Abstract: The invention is an undergarment to be worn by a person on their lower torso area. The undergarment includes an opening having a support for each buttock of the wearer. The support is adapted to support the buttock of the wearer in an upraised position.

Abstract: The invention discloses a panty-type undergarment having a support panel which has a greater resistance to stretch than the rest of the undergarment for lifting and separating the cheeks of a wearer's buttocks. The support panel is substantially anchor-shaped and includes a vertical strip and upwardly curving portions which extend toward and along a portion of the undergarment leg openings. The undergarment is circularly knit and includes modified knit regions to form the portions forming the support panel. A method and blank for making the panty with the lift and separation support are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention discloses a legged panty having strategically-located support panels for minimizing the appearance of undesirable body bulges, particularly along a wearer's stomach, hips and thighs. The panty is circularly knit, and the support panels are integrally knit using a modified knit structure to provide these regions with a greater resistance to stretching, particularly coursewise stretching. In a preferred form of the invention, first and second support panels extend vertically along the outer side of the leg portions, to correspond with the outer thigh regions of a wearer. The panty legs are finished via an integrally knit turned welt located at their terminal ends. The panty also desirably includes a U-shaped or anchor shaped support panel about the gluteal crease region in order to provide support for the buttocks, and additional yarn courses provide areas of added fabric fullness, particularly at the regions corresponding to the buttock cheeks.

Abstract: A soft polygonal pad secured adjacent a rear side of an undergarment adapted to enhance one's figure. The pad includes a pair of protruding hemispherical regions adjacent a lower edge of the pad.