Abstract: A garment, and method of making it, formed from a flexible material having part thereof covering a body joint subjected to stretching upon movement of the body joint in use, has a plurality of sections of flexible sheet material overlying that part of the garment to protect it against wear and arranged in overlapping relationship so that part of one section overlies part of an adjacent section and the sections lie substantially parallel to and partly in engagement with each other and partly against the surface of the garment, the sections being attached to the garment along substantially parallel spaced lines substantially perpendicular to the stretching direction so that the flexibility of the garment is not impaired in the stretching direction.