Abstract: A protective garment has a fabric enclosure fitting over and enclosing a human form. Handles are selectively positioned on the garment for enabling the wearer to be lifted and/or carried. Each handle is U-shaped with a flat member affixed to both ends. The flat member is secured against an inner surface of the fabric enclosure and the majority of the U-shaped handle extends on an outer surface of the fabric enclosure.

Abstract: Clothing garments and other articles include an elastic laminated sheet having the properties of stretchability and recoverability. The elastic laminated sheet is formed from a nonwoven fibrous web and an elastomeric film laminated to at least one entire web surface. The laminate is incrementally stretched along lines substantially uniformly across its length and width and throughout its depth to form a stretchable and recoverable composite. The elastic laminated sheet is uniquely suited for use in athletic and active wear garments. The composite is also useful for single use or throw away clothing articles such as medical or surgical garments, throw away bathing suits, underpants, undershirts, and garments used in the handling of hazardous or waste materials.

Abstract: A reversible skirt suitable for cheerleading is disclosed which provides for active movement of the wearer, and desirable movement and visual effects of the skirt during wearing. Preferably, the skirt is constructed of 8-20 panels which are each sewn only partially along their length to adjoining panels. Alternatively, a skirt can be made from at least one panel into which slits are cut to form a visual effect of pleats. Different colors can be used for each side of the skirt and the alternate color is partially visible when either skirt is worn for increased visual variety.

Abstract: A pleated skirt to contact with side portions of the body of a wearer in which a width of each of the pleats in contact with side portions of the body of a wearer is larger than a width of each of the pleats in contact with front and back surfaces of the body of the wearer. The pleated skirt is produced by forming linear pleats in front and back pieces of fabric material by use of pleat pattern molding boards in which a width in right and left side portions is larger than a width in an intermediate portion and sewing up the front and back pieces of the fabric material at the side portions.

Abstract: A bridal train for adjustably positioning relative to a ground surface. The inventive device includes a skirt web forming a portion of a bridal gown which continues into a train web for trailing behind the gown during a wedding proceeding. Retracting assemblies are secured to inner surfaces of the train web for effecting a pleating and shortening of the train web to a length substantially equal to a length of the skirt web so as to hang the train from the gown and preclude trailing of the train web along a ground surface.

Abstract: A multi-ply three-dimensionally bonded textile fabric is provided, to be used especially in making protective space suits, protective space shielding and other protective garments or shields. The fabric is a three-dimensionally woven, knitted, netted, braided or otherwise interlocked structure of threads including organic fibers such as aramid, polyethylene and/or polytetrafluoroethylene fibers and preferably also metallic fibers such as copper, aluminum and/or stainless steel fibers. These fibers are chosen to provide protection against adverse thermal, chemical, electrical and mechanical environmental effects that may be hazardous to an astronaut, for example. The fibers are arranged substantially in respective plies, and each ply is bonded or interlocked only to respective adjacent plies over substantially the entire ply area to provide a flexible multi-ply fabric. The threads are arranged to provide a gradient or variation in characteristics or properties from an outer surface to an inner surface.

Abstract: A low stretch fabric for use in inflatable devices that place pressure on body parts, such as anti-G garments. The novel design of the present invention allows it to inflate to a lesser volume, than conventional fabrics, while maintaining the same pressure. This results in faster response times and less bulk of the garment constructed of the present invention.

Abstract: A cuff seal utilized in a portion of a full pressure suit which envelopes a limb of a wearers body, the full pressure suit defining at least one full pressure compartment. The cuff seal includes a gas impermeable outer sheath configured to envelope a portion of the limb, the sheath having a first end in pressurized communication with the full pressure compartment, and a second end having an opening through which a portion of said limb exteriorly protrudes from the interior of the full pressure compartment. A gas impermeable inner sleeve is provided having an outer end, an intermediate section and an inner end disposed within the sheath, the outer end of the sleeve being joined in a sealed relationship to the interior of the sheath proximate to the second end, and the intermediate section of the sleeve being adapted to surround and coact in a sealed relationship with a portion of the limb.

Abstract: A vacuum powered personal waste garment apparatus comprising a waterproof and breathable garment having thigh bands and a waistband that are snug when worn on a patient.A first hose attached to a warm water supply on one end and the garment through a cuff at the other end to provide a fresh supply of water to the garment.A second hose attached to a wet-dry vacuum cleaner on one end and the garment through a cuff at the other end wherein the vacuum cleaner creates a vacuum within the garment so that any liquid or solid waste within the garment flows into the second hose to the vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A dance skirt is made up of overlapping, downwardly divergent panels, each panel individually connected at its upper edge to a common waistband but otherwise unconnected to one another so as to extend freely away from the waistband, the waistband having free ends releasably connectable to one another including tie members at the free ends, one of which is passed through an opening in a free end and tied to the other tie member so as to lay flat against the waistband.

Abstract: Fabrics containing polybenzazole fibers have high cut-resistance, and can be used to make cut-resistant and flame-resistant garments.

Abstract: A pair of reversible pants with a reversible front pocket arrangement and/or a reversible button fly arrangement is disclosed. The reversible pocket arrangement includes a pocket slot defined in the pants corresponding to a desired upper edge of each pocket, and a pocket flap corresponding to each pocket. The flap is attached to the pants and can extend down through the corresponding pocket slot so as to contact either surface of the pants. The flap has a first surface and an opposing second surface, with a first pouch formed on the flap first surface and a second pouch formed on the flap second surface. The reversible fly arrangement includes a first fly panel and a second fly panel, each having buttonholes that align when the two panels overlap.

Abstract: A skirt that allows a patient using a portable dialysis bag to shower without wetting the bag comprising, a skirt having a flexible waist band with an elastic disposed therein, a securing arrangement at overlapping portions of waist ends to hold the skirt about the patient's waist, and a pocket disposed on the interior side of the skirt to hold the dialysis bag. The pocket has a flap thereover that is press-fitted to effect closure between fasteners on the flap and pocket.

Abstract: An aggregate floor length gown including an upper section which forms a knee length gown with an ornamental lower border and a lower section with an ornamental upper border, the two sections ornamental borders releasably interconnecting to become an integral part of the gown's design and ornamental appearance.

Abstract: An improved slip to be worn as an undergarment beneath a dress or skirt of the type having a side, front or back slit in the lower edge of a dress or skirt. The slip can either be a half-slip or full slip. It is provided with an opening or recess in a panel of the slip, such as at the rear or front of the slip. The opening is of sufficient size to be larger than the slit in the dress or skirt with which the slip is used. The panel with the opening is opposite to a full panel, such as at the front or rear of the slip so that the full panel alone serves to block the light tending to pass through the dress or skirt and slip. With this one full panel, there is no need to have a conventional slip encompassing the legs of the wearer.

Abstract: A woman's slip is provided with a plurality of spaced-apart V-shaped openings along the lower hem portion of the slip. Each V-shaped opening has associated with it a pair of fabric closure-pieces for selectively and alternatively closing of the V-shaped opening or exposing the V-shaped opening, so that the slip may be used with a slitted outergarment, such as a skirt or dress, and alternatively used also with non-slitted outergarments. Each piece is integrally connected with a portion of the slip, and is capable of swinging movement along one side thereof relative to the slip. A plurality of mating female and male fastening elements keep each of the fabric closure-pieces in each of their two possible positions. The V-shaped openings are closed off by the fabric closure-pieces so that the V-shaped openings are not visible when wearing a non-slitted outergarment that is also somewhat sheer, so that the slip looks aesthetically pleasing.

Abstract: A combination of a removable towel and shorts that comprises a plurality of loops secured to the waistband of the shorts. A flap is pivotally mounted to the waistband and has a plurality of hooking elements on its bottom side. A pair of flaps. A toweling is provided. The toweling has a plurality of hooking elements. Each flap of the pair of flaps has a button slot wherethrough a pair of buttons secured to the singular flap passes for affixing the pair of flaps to the singular flaps.

Abstract: A pleated skirt, especially a reversible pleated kilt, having the pleats extending the length of the skirt, has at least certain ones of the pleats closed by an adhesive material at the upper end portions thereof so as to lay flat over the waist of a wearer, without detracting from the appearance of the skirt when worn with the reverse side outermost.

Abstract: A sport garment for women has an outer side and an inner side and comprises a fabric piece having a maximum dimension perpendicular to a centerline, an upper edge extending both ways therefrom from a first garment end to a second garment end, a lower edge including a curved central portion defining a central garment portion symmetrical with respect to the centerline and having a center of curvature above the lower edge and first and second end portions extending from the central portion to the first and second garment ends and defining first and second garment end portions, respectively, first and second pockets, each sized to receive a plurality of tennis balls, on the central portion on the outer side of the garment and symmetrical with respect to the centerline. Each pocket has an opening facing the upper edge. The garment end portions are releasably joinable about a wearer's waist with the inner side confronting the wearer's body.

Abstract: A decorative Christmas tree stand skirt comprises an elongated sheet of material which is folded into a plurality of transverse uniform pleats throughout its length. Registering holes are provided through the pleats adjacent one side edge of the material and a tie cord is inserted freely therethrough for adjustably securing the one side edge of the pleated material about the upper ring of a Christmas tree stand. A conventional two component Velcro type fastener is attached to the opposite longitudinal end edges of the material, one component on one edge of the material and the other component on the other edge of the material, for releasably fastening the opposite edges together, whereby the skirt completely encircles and hides the Christmas tree stand. The Velcro fastener may be released in order to separate the meeting radial edges of the skirt for permitting access to the tree stand water reservoir for refilling without necessitating removal of the encircling decorative skirt from the stand.

Abstract: Garments are made of sets 11-14 of loosely juxtaposed strands of yarn that are spread to a single layer and stitched to tapes 16,17 at each of their ends and are bundled together intermediate their ends and stitched to a central tape 15, with the sets of strands and tapes comprising a segment of a garment.

Abstract: A garment pouch for retaining and concealing small personal valuables. One or more concealed hemline pockets are provided in an undergarment shirt or blouse, the upper edges of which preferably lie adjacent the hemline. The closure for the pocket, which is co-extensive with stitching above the selvage and the lower edge of the pocket, comprises the selvage itself. The closure or closures for the pockets are in-line with the hem stitching line, defining a continuity thereof. If one closure is provided, it may function to close two or more adjacent pockets or pouches in the hem, the pockets being devisable from each other by vertical stitching from hemline to selvage. The pockets may be made easily accessible from either the exterior or interior of the garment and may also be adapted to sportswear having the undergarment as an integral part of the whole, for example, as in golf skirts, tennis and swimwear having outerskirt and inner pants.

Abstract: A nighttime garment to be worn by a person for concealing an ostomy pouch used by the person, the garment including a decorative wrap-around skirt-like member having an inner pocket for receiving the ostomy pouch for concealment behind the skirt-like member, and a securing arrangement enabling adjustment of the skirt-like member for waist size and for location of the ostomy pouch.

Abstract: A fabric article comprises a piece of stretch fabric and a piece of woven non-stretch fabric in superposed relationship, the two pieces of fabric being secured together in stretch-resisting manner, e.g. by stitching, along first and second lines which extend transversely to each other and obliquely to both the warp and weft directions of the woven fabric.

Abstract: A method of producing edge-printed, flare-pleated fabric garment pieces in which a fabric garment piece is placed in a corresponding pleating form and is held folded together with the form, thermal printing paper is so laid on the front edges of pleat creases visible in the form that its color-yielding face lies on the edges of the pleat creases, and in which pressure is applied to the back of the thermal printing paper with the simultaneous application of heat.

Abstract: A dress-type garment is formed of one or more strips of fabrics wound helically about the torso of the wearer and having contiguous edges of adjacent convolutions joined by helical seams. A pants-type garment is similarly formed by strips helically wound to form the legs, with upper end portions of the strips cut and joined by a central seam to form the upper portion of the pants. Another embodiment of a dress-type garment is made of first, second and third squares with two adjacent edges of the second square joined to two adjacent edges of the first square and the other two edges of the second square joined to two adjacent edges of the third square.

Abstract: A garment having a folded backing strip adhesively carrying a depending fringe secured therein by stitch fastening means. One species employs a plurality of individual ribbons for the fringe, while another species utilizes a fringe formed from a cut sheet, having an upper margin and attached ribbons.

Abstract: The garment construction comprises a waistline arrangement for encircling a wearer's waist, at least one front garment panel having an upper edge thereof secured to a front portion of the waistline arrangement, and at least one rear garment panel having an upper edge thereof secured to a rear portion of the waistline arrangement. A first lateral joining arrangement is provided for joining the left lateral edges of said garment panels, together with a second lateral joining arrangement for joining the right lateral edges of the panels. At least one of the lateral joining arrangements is quick-detachable to provide a closable garment opening thereby. Juxtaposed to the quick-detachable lateral joining arrangement is a quick-detachable waistline joining arrangement for detachably joining the ends of the waistline area.

Abstract: A device adapted to be attached to and between a woman's skirt and slip adjacent lower edges thereof at spaced locations to prevent the slip from being displaced upwardly while being worn. The device is constructed of a strip of material having opposite surface portions, with adhesive means applied to the opposite surface portions, whereby one surface portion can be attached by the adhesive means to the slip and the other surface portion can be attached by the adhesive means to the skirt. Cover means is provided over the adhesive means to prevent unwanted contact with the adhesive means prior to use, with the cover means being provided with gripping portions to permit easy removal of the cover means when desired.