US1364276A - Dress-skirt shield - Google Patents

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S. C. HANNAFORD.

DRESS SKIRT SHIELD. APPLICATION FILED APR.25, 1919.

1,364,276. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DRESS-SKIRT SHIELD.

Application filed April 25, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SALLIE C. HANNAFORD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dress- Skirt Shields, of which the following is a specification.

lVomens dress skirts are prone to become wrinkled in the rear from their sitting upon them. This is particularly true of silk skirts. This tendency likewise is noted either from sitting in a heated room or in hot weather.

It has been attempted to overcome this defect in dress skirts, by means of a shield of rubber sheeting, which is hung from the waist of the wearer, and extends to a point adjacent to the knees. However it has been found that this sheeting has a tendency to become crumpled up and this crumpled condition of the sheeting is imparted to the goods of the skirt. l tloreover this rubber sheeting is very uncomfortable and also unhealthy, because it covers the portion of the body over the kidneys of the wearer.

An object of my invention is a shield that will protect the back of a dress skirt from the perspiration of the wearer, and prevent the skirt from being wrinkled by the wearers sitting upon it, without causing her any physical discomfort.

Figure 1, is a perspective view of my dress shield, showing it in the position it assumes when the wearer is standing.

Fig. 2, is a side view of my shield in its position when the wearer is in a sitting posture.

Fig. 3, is an elevation of my shield.

Fig. 4, is a sectional view thereof.

Itly dress shield. comprises a waist band, A, a seat portion B, and an intermediate portion D.

The waist band is composed oi a strip of tape, or other suitable means for encircling the must. Extending from the waist band to the bottom of the seat portion is a strip Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Serial No. 292,618.

of netting which tapers from the waist band to the top of the seat portion B. Within the netting, which is doubled upon itself in the seat portion, I place a rectangular piece of rubberized or waterproof material I). I prefer to bind the edges of the intermediate portion D and of the seat portion. B, with tape.

In use the wearer places the waist band around her waist and permits the seat portion to be hung from the rear of the waist band. The intermediate portion being soft and pliable will conform to the shape of the back of the wearer and permit the seat portion to hang in a fiat unwrinkled condition in the rear of the limbs of the wearer. Hence when the wearer assumes a sitting posture, the seat portion takes a fiat unwrinkled position beneath her, and between her undershirt and her dress skirt. This prevents any moisture from her body from reaching the dress skirt and therefore, since the skirt will be held in a comparatively straight condition by the seat portion of the dress shield, will prevent the skirt from be coming wrinkled.

It is to be noted that the portion of my dress shield lying above the kidneys is porous and flexible and hence will cause the wearer no discomfort.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is A. dress skirt shield comprising a waist band, a seat portion and an intermediate portion, the seat portion and the intermediate portion having in common a strip of netting which is coextensive with the seat and the intermediate portions and is doubled in the seat portion, and apiece of waterproof material which is coextensive with the seat portion and is interposed between the layers of the netting, leaving the interstices of the netting open.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 24th day of April, 1919.

SALLIE' G. HANNAFORD.

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