Abstract: An article of clothing so constructed as to not encircle the wearer's neck, combines a support undergarment with a neckwear outergarment. The support undergarment is a collarless and sleeveless shirt worn beneath a male's shirt or a female's blouse. The outergarment is an ornamental fabric necktie of pretied configuration and includes longitudinal pairs of same fabric shoulder tailends projecting from each upper corner of the knot-end of the necktie. Button fasteners sewn along the undergarment's shoulder straps releasably communicate with button holes sewn along tailends.

Abstract: A one-piece, snug fitting, sleeveless garment covering the core or torso of the body is intended to be worn by persons susceptible to cold and chills. The garment includes plural layers, including an insulative intermediate layer, and a hood integrally connected to the garment. The garment opens flat to enable the wearer to be easily clad in the garment.

Abstract: A stretchable water penetration resistant moisture-vapor permeable undergarment that protects the body from accidental contact with blood and other body fluids. The underwear provides protection to medical personnel working in non-standard environments such as emergency rooms, accident and natural disaster sites, rescure operations and the like.

Abstract: A map construction for use by a tourist at a new site or location such as an amusement park or a college campus. The illustrated construction is in the form of a shirt having a front panel with an outwardly facing surface. The surface is provided with a map of the area in question. The map is oriented (i) with the bottom of the map uppermost and the top of the map lowermost, and (ii) with the map low enough, to facilitate ready reading and use of the map by the person wearing the shirt and without having to remove the shirt. The user wearing the shirt simply looks down and sees the map of the desired area in an orientation where it can be read by the wearer. In one form, a map may be provided on the outer surface of the rear panel of the shirt for use by a companion of the person wearing the shirt. The map on the rear panel is oriented with the top of the map uppermost.

Abstract: Traveling and disposable underwear is provided and consists of typically three undergarments which are an undershirt, a pair of men's underpants and a pair of women's panties. The three undergarments are fabricated of an absorbent material and include elastic bands for comfortably holding the undergarments to the wearer. The three undergarments are also provided with magnetic fasteners for closing openings and securing together similarly provisioned garments which allow for easier donning and doffing without tearing the undergarments.

Abstract: A garment resembles pajamas and includes a shirt which has openable sleeves and pants which have openable legs. The sleeves and legs are openable for the entire length thereof so some or all of the wearer's limbs and body can be exposed for providing health care to that wearer. The legs and arms can be closed to cover the wearer so the garment can be both aesthetically pleasing, warm and yet still provide access to the patient for the purposes of providing health care.

Abstract: An athletic shirt made of relatively non-absorbent synthetic material has a member of highly absorbent material secured thereto around the front of the neck opening and normally disposed inside the shirt and easily pulled up with the shirt in one version, or out of the neck opening in another version, to facilitate wiping perspiration from the face of the wearer.

Abstract: A collar edge construction for a knitted garment. The construction includes a garment body provided with a finished lower edge and sleeves suitably attached opposite side of the upper end of the garment body. The body is cut away in the usual manner at its upper extremity to form a neck opening. The neck opening is visibly framed by a strip of collarette material which is folded longitudinally to form inner and outer layers. The lower portion of the outer layer is preferably folded inwardly to form a folded portion. The lower edge of the inner layer is also preferably folded to form a second folded portion. In accordance with the preferred embodiment, the edge of the body extends upwardly between the layers substantially to the longitudinal fold in the collarette. Preferably, at least two parallel lines of stitching pass through the lower portions of the collarette strip and the body fabric to complete the assembly. Because both edges of the collarette are folded inwardly, no raw edges show.

Abstract: A combined article of clothing as disclosed, having an upper torso portion suitable for outerwear along with a lower portion adapted to serve as underwear for the midsection of the body. The garment is particularly adaptable for men and boys, and serves to maintain shirt tails and the like neatly tucked into the overlaying trousers, while providing all of the comfort of conventional underwear briefs.

Abstract: The shirt-like device disclosed shields the neck, shoulders, back, waist, and arms from rays of sunlight or radiation from the sun which may be harmful and provides for ventilation which makes the shirt-like device more comfortable to wear than an ordinary shirt in situations where it is hot and people ordinarily take off their shirts to be comfortable. The device protects those parts of the body that are likely to receive too much exposure to this radiation when people perform certain activities outdoors for long periods of time. The device fits over the upper body of a person. The sun-shielding part blocks, reflects, and/or impedes the rays of sunlight or radiation and covers those parts of the neck, shoulders, back, waist, and arms which receive the most exposure to sunlight when a person is engaged in activities which cause them to lean slightly forward or have their upper body horizontal. The sun-shielding portion is connected to a ventilated portion to form a complete shirt.

Abstract: An aperture in a body of a garment co-acts with a part of the garment to produce a combination of a two-dimensional image or design appearing on the garment with a three-dimensional part of the garment. The part of the garment capable of being drawn through the aperture forms a member which is a part of the two-dimensional design appearing on the garment. The part of the garment that is drawn through the aperture tends to cinch the waist of the garment about the user. An optional fastener keeps the drawn-through part of the garment from withdrawing through the aperture.

Abstract: A sleeveless bodice type athletic support garment structured of a multi-layered rectangular front and back panel, two length adjustable shoulder straps, a neck opening, two arm apertures, and two openable side seams attachable with hook and loop fasteners to allow size adjustability. The garment is made of a resilient material capable of dissipating heat and perspiration. The interior of the front panel is affixed with a flat rectangular elastic panel to support and stabilize a woman's breasts against her chest. The athletic support garment is especially directed for use by large breasted women who require additional support during strenuous or active sports. The support garment can be worn in place of a bra, over existing clothing or even as an outer garment.

Abstract: An athletic shirt has a sleeve made of Spandex Lycra which extends in a generally cylindrical shape from a relatively small cylindrical cuff to a mid portion and then in a curvilinearly expoanding upper arm portion to a relativley large shoulder portion joined with diagonal seams to a high bulk shirt body with a front opening placket. The sleeve is tightly knitted with fine threads, is lightweight, is fast drying, is stretchable in more than one direction and is highly resilient, for lightly uniformly gripping an arm and shoulder and allowing free expansions and directional orientations of the arm without separating from the arm, while maintaining a uniform temperature and rapidly releasing perspiration in a fast drying manner. The body of the shirt is made of a high density high bulk relatively tightly knitted cotton material having stitches larger than the arm portion.

Abstract: A woman's sport shirt that normally functions as a waist-length T-shirt having a circular neck opening and short sleeves. The waist hem of the shirt is provided on opposite sides thereof with complementary snap buttons, or similar hand-operated connectors. When worn by a woman, the shirt is readily convertible into a halter-like garment by raising the waist hem above the midriff, then lifting the front section of the skirt above the head and rolling it behind the neck to create a yoke joining left and right portions of the front section which are then drawn across the bust of the wearer and interconnected by the snap buttons to form a bra-like bust support above the exposed midriff.

Abstract: Piece of material for an article of clothing (2) and use of the piece of material for production of a garment. The article of clothing is intended to cover at least the upper body and is provided with a front and a back which are finished with a lower edge, a shoulder section with a neck opening (13) and arms. The piece of material (1) has a first edge (3) which is intended to form the lower edge, a second edge (4, 5) opposite this, two side edges (6, 10 and 7, 11) opposite each other and two cuts (8, 9) which extend inwards from the side edges and which are finished at a distance from each other which corresponds approximately to the size across the chest. The piece of material is symmetrical about a center axis (16) on which the neck opening is located, the cuts (8, 9) form an angle, to the center axis (16), which, measured in the direction of the first edge (3), is less than 90.degree..

Abstract: A garment for human beings to cover at least the upper torso. On the garment is a decorative design having a specific cognitive orientation and is positioned such that the wearer readily recognizes the design. The design is further incorporated into an additional design having a specific cognitive orientation which is readily recognizable by a nonwearing observer.

Abstract: A disposable protective gown and process for making the gown. The gown is composed of a body portion which extends over the shoulders of the wearer and which has a pair of sleeves which extend outwardly from opposite sides. Each sleeve is attached to the body portion over an angle of attachment greater than 180.degree. and less than 300.degree.. A thumb loop is formed at the end of each of the sleeves and is shaped to engage the saddle of the thumb of a wearer. In forming the gown, after the body portion has been cut and the sleeves formed, the sleeves are attached to the body portion by heat sealing half the sleeve, then rotating the sleeve so that a second portion of the sleeve is attached to the gown, with the total angle of attachment not exceeding 300.degree.. In order to prevent inadvertent sealing of both sides of a sleeve together, each sleeve includes a circumferential notch which extends for a length up to that comprising the portion of a the sleeve that is not attached to the body of the gown.

Abstract: A security pouch is provided which has an access opening and includes support straps and fasteners for attaching the pouch to a strap of an upper torso undergarment, whereby the pouch is suspendable beneath the arm of a wearer to permit safe, comfortable, inconspicuous and secure carrying of valuables.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with a sweat absorbent undershirt adapted to be used as an undershirt for sportwares which sport players generally put on when they play golf, tennis and etc.; by wearing this sweat absorbent undershirt next to their skin, the skin is prevented from being all covered in sweat however profuse perspiration they get in while playing. The invention further involves a sweat absorbent undershirt construction provided with a high degree of sweat absorptive clothings wherein sweat remains held thereby to permit players to play free from feeling uncomfortable with sweat which otherwise they might do.

Abstract: A method for converting a pattern for a first garment to a pattern for a second garment, where the first garment includes front and back, body and shoulder portions with sleeves extending from shoulder holes between those front and back portions. The regions of the body and shoulder portion adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam are non-parallel with respect to regions of the sleeve portions adjacent to that seam when the body and shoulder portions are positioned in a plane. The second garment has the same outer contour as the first garment, including front and back body portions with a shoulder hole between those front and back body portions. Separate, generally tubular sleeve and shoulder portions having a sleeve and shoulder seams extending along their lengths, have one end joined to the perimeters of the shoulder holes along shoulder-to-body seams.

Abstract: A garment having body portions including front and back portions with a shoulder hole between those front and back portions. A generally tubular sleeve and shoulder portion has a sleeve and shoulder seam extending along its length with one end of the sleeve and shoulder portion joined to the perimeter of the shoulder hole along a sleeve-to-shoulder seam. The regions of the body portions adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam, when the regions of the body portions adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam are positioned in a plane without the sleeve and shoulder seam being joined. The regions of the body portions adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam are non-parallel with respect to the regions of the shoulder and sleeve portion adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam when the regions of the body portions adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam are positioned in a plane with the sleeve and shoulder seam being joined.

Abstract: An article of sportswear formed by a composite fabric which, when worn by an athlete undergoing strenuous physical activity, functions to regulate the factors giving rise to perspiration and evaporative cooling in a manner conductive to optimum performance. The composite fabric which is foraminated to afford air ventilation is composed of a hydrophobic inner layer in contact with the skin of the wearer and a hydrophilic outer layer exposed to the atmosphere. The inner layer is formed of non-absorbing fibers which act to convey perspiration away from the skin to the second layer, these fibers having a black pigmentation to absorb infrared energy emitted by the wearer. The second layer is formed of absorbent fibers functioning to absorb the perspiration conveyed thereto and to disperse this perspiration throughout the exposed surface thereof to promote evaporative cooling at a controlled rate.

Abstract: A garment and accessories formed substantially entirely of textile fabric having a series of parallel raised ribs at generally equally spaced intervals to form channels through which air may circulate and which also serves to maintain a distance when the garment is worn beneath a non-porous outergarment such as personal body armour worn by law enforcement and military personnel, asbestos clothing worn by foundry workers, rubberized garments for work and recreation, and the like. In one embodiment, the ribs are formed by stitching a fabric-enclosed fiberfill cord of substantial diameter, using a knit stitch formation which causes or allows the base fabric to enclose approximately seven eighths to three quarters of the circumference of the cord thereby eliminating any lateral shifting of the cords when the garment is worn under tension. When the wearer moves in any direction the undergarment maintains the supple, pliable and flexible properties of the base fabric which enclose the cords.

Abstract: A spunlaced fabric composed of random-arrayed polyester fibers is formed into a single-layer or double-layer fabric arrangement which is used to make an undergarment. The undergarment is worn by an individual and fits snugly about a selected portion of the body. For example, the undergarment could be designed to fit around the torso of the body from beneath the armpits to the hips. A rigid or semirigid outergarment, such as an orthepedic brace, is worn about the same body area, and over the undergarment, to correct a body-growth deficiency such as curvature of the spine. Relatively large beads of perspiration moisture generated beneath the brace by the individual wearing the brace are absorbed into the undergarment. The random-arrayed nature of the fibers of the fabric causes the relatively large beads of perspiration to form into mirco-droplets which migrate over the fibers and facilitate removal of the bulk of the moisture from beneath the brace.

Abstract: An inner garment for aiding evaporative cooling includes a first sheet containing a substantial portion of cotton. One face of the first sheet is worn next to the skin where it acts as a wick for perspiration. A second sheet in the form of a resilient, wrinkled, porous web is disposed against the other face of the first sheet to form an evaporative cooling space when an outer garment is worn over the inner garment. Preferably, a perforated third sheet of woven thermopolastic fibers is disposed over the outer face of the wrinkled web to protect the web and restrict loss of moisture primarily to the evaporative process.

Abstract: An article of clothing for enveloping the upper part of the body, particularly garments and undergarments of this type manufactured for men, women and children, having an extension to its back-piece in the form of a shaped flap of curved lower contour, provided with elastic means and with its concavity facing upwards, the flap being arranged to envelop and rest on and under the buttocks for the purpose of preventing the article of clothing riding up when the user bends forward or makes any large amplitude movement, the article of clothing being particularly adapted for sports and leisure garments.