Abstract: There is provided an all-in-one underwear having a brassiere portion, a waist slimming portion, and a girdle portion which are integrated with each other. The girdle portion includes an integrated leg insertion portion extended by a predetermined length from a lower portion of the groin toward a knee, a lower zipper openably/closably provided from a navel region to a coccyx region of the hips in the middle of the leg insertion portion, thus solving physiological phenomena of excretion, and a pad having a predetermined length and width and provided on an inner surface of a lower zipper region in such a way as to be secured at a surface in a longitudinal direction thereof, thus preventing damage to the skin when a slider of the lower zipper is opened or closed.
Abstract: A maternity garment, which provides mild support to shape a woman's body and to act as a suspender for bottoms such as pants, shorts, or skirts that may be ill fitting due to body changes as a result of pregnancy, wherein the preferred garment has at least one shoulder strap, a belly panel, a hip band, two side panels, and a back panel, and is made of high performance fabric with varying degrees of compression.
Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to a shapewear garment with an integrated compression liner. The liner is constructed from a singular tubular piece of fabric and provides 360° of compression. The liner is seamless, thus allowing for a smooth appearance. The liner is attached to an outer fashion garment to prevent twisting or turning of the piece. The garment includes a plurality of yarn stitches to provide greater support in the chest and stomach regions. The liner and outer garment may take a T-shirt or tank top configuration with a number of different necklines and lengths.
Abstract: The claimed invention is directed to brassieres that offer extra support for large women. The brassieres include an inner bra band and an outer bra band.
Abstract: A body-shaping intimacy garment for a woman has an upper portion that supports or at least contacts undersides of the breasts while leaving the breasts exposed, a torso portion extending from the upper portion, a lower portion that encircles the waist, buttocks and hips while defining a crotch opening through the garment for access during intimate encounters, and leg portions that extend to below the knee. The torso portion, lower portion and leg portions each include respective portions of inner and outer layers of stretchable fabrics. The inner layer fabric is worn stretched about the torso, waist, buttocks, hips and legs, with tension in shoulder straps maintaining some inner layer stretch along the torso portion while worn.
Abstract: A body-shaping intimacy garment for a woman has an upper portion that supports or at least contacts undersides of the breasts while leaving the breasts exposed, a torso portion extending from the upper portion, a lower portion that encircles the waist, buttocks and hips while defining a crotch opening through the garment for access during intimate encounters, and leg portions that extend to below the knee. The torso portion, lower portion and leg portions each include respective portions of inner and outer layers of stretchable fabrics. The inner layer fabric is worn stretched about the torso, waist, buttocks, hips and legs, with tension in shoulder straps maintaining some inner layer stretch along the torso portion while worn.
Abstract: A stretchable undergarment comprises a one-piece body slimming unit made of front and rear panels cut and sewn along the edges to form a tubular body shaping garment construction which is stretchable in the longitudinal direction, and having a lightweight zippered opening along the front. The undergarment is made from a woven stretchable satin material containing a small amount of thin spandex-type elastic fibers forming a predominately one-way vertical stretch in a base textile fabric made from thin polymeric textile fibers such as nylon.
Abstract: A multi-fabric garment for slenderizing the midsection of a user includes a noncompressive upper section, a slenderizing compressive middle section, and a noncompressive lower section. The slenderizing middle section can include both compressive and noncompressive materials.
Abstract: A shape enhancing garment includes a garment shell and a garment lining permanently affixed to the shell to form a garment. The garment lining is stretchable 40-100% along the wale and 50-100% along the course, and the garment lining is sized to apply compression to a body of a wearer of the garment. Preferably, the garment lining is made of one or more of a circular knit fabric consisting essentially of spandex and polyester, which stretches 40-100% along the wale and 50-100% along the course; and a stretch powernet fabric consisting essentially of spandex and nylon, which stretches 50-100% along the wale and 50-100 along the course.
Abstract: An adhesive device for securing clothing is provided. The adhesive device includes a flexible substrate having opposing faces. Each opposing face has an adhesive deposited thereon forming a first adhesive surface and an opposing second adhesive surface. An aperture is formed in a central portion of the adhesive device.
Abstract: A bra having a cover panel in the appearance of a camisole uses a bra construction with bra cups, with relatively wide shoulder straps that meet in a generally U-shaped joinder. A pair of torso straps extend laterally from either side of the U-shaped joinder and connect to a respective one of the bra cups, one of the two straps being in two sections with the ends of the two sections each having one portion of a typical closure, such that the closure is located under an armpit of a wearer when the bra is donned. The cover panel attaches to a lower edge of the bra and has support straps that attach to the shoulder straps substantially along the length of the shoulder straps so that the cover panel, in addition to being decorative, provides additional confinement and lift to the breasts of the wearer.
Abstract: The invention is an undergarment designed to assist a brassiere in providing lift and improved cleavage to the bust while also acting as slimming shape wear. The undergarment is worn over a brassiere. The cup-less design provides a level of lift that an ordinary brassiere on its own cannot produce. In addition, the undergarment acts as a slimming shape wear garment. The material is wider under the arm, smoothing bulges created by the brassiere.
Abstract: A panty corselet without buckle structures including a corset portion and a pants portion is disclosed. The pants portion includes a front rise and two connection belts connected to a lower edge of the corset portion and adjacent to the front rise. One end of each of the two connection belts is connected to a bottom edge of the corset portion on each hip side, and the other end to a bottom edge of the front rise at a crotch area, thereby forming two openings through which a wearer's thighs could pass. As the panty corselet of this present invention is not provided with buckles, it enables women to take off or put on the panty corselet conveniently. Moreover, the ends of the two connection belts are respectively stitched to the corset portion and the front rise, thus bring comfort to wearing and overcome the defects in current technology.
Abstract: The invention is an undergarment designed to assist a brassiere in providing lift and improved cleavage to the bust while also acting as slimming shape wear. The undergarment is worn over a brassiere. The cup-less design provides a level of lift that an ordinary brassiere on its own cannot produce. In addition, the undergarment acts as a slimming shape wear garment. The material is wider under the arm, smoothing bulges created by the brassiere.
Abstract: A shapewear undergarment for a woman, more particularly to an upper body shapewear undergarment with arm compression that gently lifts and compresses flabby areas on the top half of the body, especially the arms, midriff and back. The overall design provides the user with a smoother, toner appearance.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 15, 2008
Publication date:
April 16, 2009
Inventors:
Amy Blankenship Pedersen, Jennifer Pedersen Daniels
Abstract: A compression bra for addressing and/or correcting synmastia complications in reconstructive breast surgeries has: (i) a wide, cotton-lined, unidirectional elastic, torso band adjustably encircling a woman's thoracic torso immediately below the inframammary skinfold; (ii) a trapezoidal shaped, sternum compression panel secured at its base to the upper edge of torso band below the inframammary skinfold and at the top by a pair of adjustable over-the-shoulder straps for elastically compressing sternum tissues while restraining, shaping and separating the inside conically rising, side portions of a woman's breasts; (iii) a pair of breast support cups/flaps also fastened to the upper edge of the torso band each similarly secured at the top by an adjustable over-the-shoulder support strap; and (iv) elastic side panels fastened to the breast cup/flaps and the upper edge of the torso band for anchoring the respective shoulder straps of the sternum compression panel and breast cups/flaps supporting, restraining and s
Abstract: A garment includes a body portion having a neck opening and a pair of arm openings formed therethrough. First and second breast exposing openings are formed through the body portion that are adapted to encircle and completely expose the breasts of the wearer. Thus, the body portion is free from any type of obstructive covering over the first and second breast exposing openings. The body portion may be formed from a single tube-shaped piece of material or it may be formed from a plurality of pieces of material. If desired, a bodice portion may extend from body portion. The body portion and the bodice portion may be formed from a single tube-shaped piece of material or from a plurality of pieces of material. The first and second breast exposing openings may have respective aesthetic decorations, such as decorative flower petals, provided thereabout.
Abstract: A fabric securing system having a strip of flexible material for securing two pieces of fabric or clothing is disclosed. The system has at least a portion of one of its sides containing an adhesive material. Both sides of the system may contain an adhesive portion.
Abstract: A women's garment with built-in breast support and no underwire, comprises an exterior fabric layer for covering the torso. A exterior fabric layer has an upper part for at least partly covering the breasts. An interior fabric layer is connected to the upper part of the exterior fabric layer and is sized to extend only over the upper part of the exterior fabric layer on the inner surface thereof cover at least part of the breasts of a woman. A pair of side support panels are connected to the interior fabric layer, each at over one lateral area of the torso, the lateral areas being adjacent respective lateral sides of the breasts and are made of non-stretch material for supporting the breasts. A pair of tapes or other fixing mechanisms are connected to the interior fabric layer and extend along respecting medial edges of the side support panels.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 2003
Date of Patent:
January 25, 2005
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventors:
Lisa Powers Struble, Jami Leigh Anderson, Tiffany Nicole Harris, Christine Marie Kennedy, Joshua Andrew Baumer
Abstract: A woman's garment (10) includes a tubular garment body (20) and an inner support unit (50). The preferred inner support unit (50) comprises a liner (52) secured to the garment body (20) along an upper edge portion (30) of the garment body (20); a pair of underwire members (54, 56) secured to the liner (52) proximate a lower edge portion (60); and an elastic member (58) extending along the lower edge portion (60) of the liner (52). The liner (52) preferably includes darts (104, 106) formed in support sections (100, 102) of the liner (52) defined by the underwire members (54, 56), forming a slight degree of concavity in the support sections (100, 102). The preferred liner (52) and elastic member (58) are capable of encircling the wearer's torso (23) to provide a comfortable fit and support without detachable fasteners (not shown) which complicate the garment and show through to the exterior creating unsightly bulges.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2001
Date of Patent:
March 11, 2003
Assignee:
O'Bryan Brothers, Inc.
Inventors:
Enid Gilbert Katze, Lynn Ruth O'Donnell, Stephanie Ann Meehan
Abstract: An undergarment having body contouring function being made from stretchable material and having stitching or seams located at the front and rear side of the undergarment. The fat of the body of the wearer is pushed toward the breast or hip such that the breast and the hip of the wearer look stiffer and larger. A zipper is provided at one lateral side of the undergarment for easy wearing of the undergarment. The bottom end of the groin is provided with two crotch linings such that when the wearer closes the two legs together, an opening will not occur and when the two legs are separated apart, an opening is formed for enabling the wearer to use toilet facilities easily without having to remove the undergarment.
Abstract: Disclosed is a string adjuster in brassiere and body suit, which connects the brassiere and the body suit together through one string. The string adjuster includes a fixing hole, which is formed at the upper portion thereof and fixed at a front end of the string adjusting portion, and first and second hooked holes which are formed under the fixing hole and have an open end for inserting and hooking loops of the brassiere and the body suit. The above structure of the string adjuster provides good sense of wear and prevents the connected portion from projecting.
Abstract: An undergarment comprises a skin-contacting panel and an outer sheer panel which define a pocket therebetween. The pocket is adapted for interchangeably receiving an insert wherein the insert can be seen through the sheer panel. Inserts are provided in a variety of colors, appearances, or scents for placement into the undergarments to change the decorative scheme of the undergarment. Attachments may also be provided that comprise button covers or bows which are attached to the undergarments, wherein the attachments preferably match the color of a particular insert.
Abstract: A women's upper-body garment is provided with a front-opening outer garment and a front-opening inner bra having shoulder straps attached to the inside shoulders of the outer garment, and having breast supporting portions with elastic perimeter portions and formed to support the underside of the breasts.
Abstract: A lady's undergarment is provided which has a front neck hole seam that is generally W-shaped and has a raised middle section which falls in between the user's breasts. The undergarment has a lower opening that is defined by a generally straight back hem and a bevel front hem which has a lowermost portion that is cut at an angle. The undergarment may include one strap or two straps or be strapless. A collar may be attached to the undergarment. The back hem of the lower opening of the undergarment may be sufficiently long to be passed between the legs of the user and extended upwards to be attached to the undergarment. The undergarment may include cushioning means at several different sections of the undergarment. Undergarments that are designed for women who are missing one or both breasts may have cushioning to line area where breast is missing. The undergarment may include a flap between the folds of the breasts.
Abstract: The present invention provides an active-wear garment which comfortably provides support to the chest and back areas of the physically-active wearer, while wicking away moisture from the skin of the wearer. The active-wear garment of the present invention provides support such that the breasts of the wearer are comfortably supported and effectively immobilized when worn during physical activity of the wearer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 21, 1998
Date of Patent:
February 23, 1999
Assignee:
Edie Fleischman-Ament
Inventors:
Edie Fleischman-Ament, Susan K. Krueger
Abstract: The invention is an exercise garment having an integrally formed support bra. The exercise garment includes an upper bra portion for providing support to the user. Connected to the upper portion is a lower, stretchable fabric portion for covering the torso of the user. The upper and lower portions are joined at an elastic support member disposed below the breasts of the user. The upper and lower portions of the garment cooperate with each other so that each portion maintains its position on a user during vigorous exercise or dance.
Abstract: The garment is provided featuring stretchable, resilient straps and a bodice. The straps are sufficiently resilient and suitably stretchable so that when a women wearing the garment pulls down the bodice, she can expose a breast for nursing and when through, she can return the bodice to its original position covering the breast. Straps and bodice are resilient such that garment regains it as original shape when returned to the original position. In this fashion, a women wearing the garment is able to expose the breast for nursing with one easy motion without having to deal with flaps or buttons or the like. The invention also provides female snap fasteners on the inner surface of the cups so that breast pads may be removeably fixed thereto. Thus, the invention provides a garment which is self sufficient, not requiring a bra for the use of breast pads. Bodice also fits snugly enough to hold nursing pads in place even if they are not snapped in.
Abstract: An undergarment affording bust support and an unobstructed view of the wearer's back including a panty portion, a bra portion and joining straps. The panty portion has a front panel, a rear panel, and fasteners for joining the front and rear panels together at the crotch. The bra portion has a pair of cups, a connector joining the cups at the front, and, for each cup, a shoulder strap for supporting the cup on a respective shoulder of the wearer. On each side, the joining straps are a first strap joining the rear panel and a respective one of the cups and a second strap joining the front panel and a respective one of the shoulder straps. The first and second joining straps cross and are secured together adjacent a respective one side of the wearer, preferably at about waist level.
Abstract: A women's undergarment that combines support for acting as a brassiere and underpants formed as a unitary garment made from nylon mesh fabric in one piece with a single flat seam at the back. A top band for breast support sized to fit around the upper torso of the female with a lower triangular shaped portion which is wider in the front and has a thong-like shaped panty in the rear portion of the garment where it is unitarily formed. The undergarment has no visible seams, straps, hooks or buttons and is totally functional and unrestricting for the wearer.
Abstract: A torso support for pregnant women includes abdominal, breast and back support panels and laterally extending upper and lower elastic strips. The upper strip extending along a junction of the lower edge of the breast support panel and the upper edge of the abdominal support panel, and the lower elastic strip extending around a bottom edge of the abdominal support panel adjacent a waist opening of the torso support, are stretchable in only a lateral direction. A pair of shoulder straps extending from an upper portion of the breast support panel to a central upper region on a back of the torso support define neck and shoulder openings. The back support panel has a hexagonal configuration and tapers in width from a widest upper portion to a narrower lower portion. Side edges of the back support panel extend in conformance with arcuate peripheral edge portions of the shoulder openings. Ends of the upper strip are secured to central regions of lateral edges of the back support panel.
Abstract: A backless, strapless ladies' body briefer is made practical by providing a lateral, full-length bone at each of the two seams connecting the front and back halves of the garment. The back half has a V-shaped cutout and an elastic band extending along the waistline and attached to the lateral bones. At least one auxiliary bone, spaced from each lateral bone, is attached to the elastic band and extends to the V-shaped cutout. Additional auxiliary bones attached to the elastic band can help keep the V-shaped edges of the garment snugly against the wearer's back.
Abstract: A support undergarment for use in supporting the body of a woman during pregnancy, especially during the last trimester of pregnancy is disclosed. The undergarment comprises an elongated back panel that extends substantially from the shoulders to the waist of the wearer for supporting the back of the wearer. A first pair of torso encircling straps extends from the opposite sides of an intermediate portion of the back panel. Each torso strap includes a brassiere support cup with a releasable fastener between the cups. A second pair of adjustable straps extends from the opposite sides of the upper portion of the back panel over the shoulders of the wearer. Each shoulder strap connects to one of the first straps adjacent its associated brassiere cup. A third pair of adjustable straps extends from the opposite sides of the lower portion of the back panel and adjustably connect with an abdominal support sling which encircles and supports the lower abdomen of the wearer.
Abstract: A garment for securely supporting a person while allowing freedom of movement that includes a front outer shell of at least one-way stretchable fabric, a first liner stretchable in at least one direction and having the same general shape as the front outer shell when attached along its periphery. A support member of one-way vertifcally stretchable fabric to permit stretching for vertical movement while providing lateral support is attached at least along its upper edge and one other edge. A rear outer shell is shaped and has complementary edges for attaching it to the front outer shell and liner. Elastic is placed in some of the seams to provide support for the garment.
Abstract: A camisole underwire bra garment (10) including a camisole unit (11) and an underwire bra unit (12) whose upper portions (11') and (12') share the same general contour and configuration, wherein the underwire bra unit (12) is only connected to the camisole unit (11) along their respective upper portions to produce a camisole garment (10) that provides lift and support for a woman's breasts.
Abstract: An exercise garment especially adapted for use by expectant mothers consists of an abdominal and breast support band that surrounds and supports the uterine area and includes breast support cups. The abdominal and breast support band is of double thickness elastic material and is affixed to a pair of elastic tights. It also includes shoulder straps that cross in the back and are fixed to the breast support cups on the side in the vicinity of the waistline. Also included is a sternum band.
Abstract: An apparel structure based on the movement of muscles during movement of the body, and a process for making such apparel, includes an apparel structure constructed to be comfortable and to have excellent adaptability to movement without tension or slack. It also provides excellent shaping-up effect, can be applied to various kinds of apparel and is particularly suitable for female underwear and shaping-up wear. It is suitable particularly for working wear, sportswear, leisure wear, etc., in which the extent of movement of the body is large, irrespective of male or female.
Abstract: A women's garment with built-in breast support and no underwire, comprises an exterior fabric layer for covering the torso. A exterior fabric layer has an upper part for at least partly covering the breasts. An interior fabric layer is connected to the upper part of the exterior fabric layer and is sized to extend only over the upper part of the exterior fabric layer on the inner surface thereof cover at least part of the breasts of a woman. A pair of side support panels are connected to the interior fabric layer, each at over one lateral area of the torso, the lateral areas being adjacent respective lateral sides of the breasts and are made of non-stretch material for supporting the breasts. A pair of tapes or other fixing mechanisms are connected to the interior fabric layer and extend along respecting medial edges of the side support panels.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 24, 2007
Date of Patent:
September 7, 2010
Assignee:
A & F Trademark, Inc.
Inventors:
Lisa Powers Struble, Jami Leigh Anderson Rudolph, Tiffany Nicole Harris, Christine Marie Kennedy, Joshua Andrew Baumer