US2098810A - Divided skirt - Google Patents

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Nov. 9, 1937. 5, PIERCE 2,098,810

DIVIDED SKIRT Filed May 12, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 9, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT orricr.

mvnmn sxm'r Selda K. Pierce, Brookline, Mace.

Application May 12, 1937, Serial No. 142,140

3 Claims.

This invention relates to women's garments and pertains more particularly to improvements in the manufacture of divided skirts of the general type shown as, culottes. The general purpose of the invention is to provide a divided skirt which afiords to the wearer the ease, comfort and masculine freedom of movement characteristic of the full-cut culotte or of other garments of this general type, while at the same time presenting the style, neatness and feminine formality of the ordinary skirt.

To this end, the trunk and crotch portions of my improved garment are fashioned and manufactured in a novel way, so that the trunk or leg members substantially overlap each other at front and rear, with the crotch extending in a diagonal direction in contrast to the ordinary straight front-to-rear direction of prior divided skirts. Thus, the visible vertical lines of divi-. sion or openings between the trunk portions are aforesaid kick pleats, stitched-down pleats or" tucks preferably lead upward from the crotch portion ofzthe garment to the waistband thereof. Hence, when the garment is viewed from either the front or the rear, it has the appearance of a normal skirt provided with a pair of pleats spaced on opposite sides of the center or median line thereof; and no division between the trunk portions is noticeable when the garment is suspended from its waistband vor even when the wearer is standing. or walking at a normal pace.

A recommended embodiment of my invention is illustrated ii the accompanying drawings showing a divided skirt fashioned and finished as above suggested; but it will be understood that this invention is not intended to be restricted to the particularmethods of manufacture or to the structural details herein described, except as-the novel features of the invention are set forth in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

55 Fig. 1 is a front view of my new skirt;-

substantially offset (one in front and the other,

Fig. 2 1: a rear view thereof Figs. 3 and 4 are front and rear views, respectively, of assembled dress patterns which may be used in fashioning the skirt.

Fig. 5 shows said patterns opened out, flatwise;

and

Figs. 6 and '7 are diagrammatic sections, taken approximately on lines' 6-6 and 1-1, respectively, of Fig. 1.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 6, the upper portion ID of my improved garment is formed in the manner of an ordinary skirt, and has a waistband II and a side placket l2 which may be closed by ornamental buttons l3 or other fastenings. Darts l4 may be provided at the hip portions, as usual. As indicated above, stitched-down vertical pleats or tucks i5 and l5, l6 and ii are formed at, p the front and rear, respectively. These four pleats may be substantially equidistant from each other, and each pair should be substantially at the same distance from the imaginary median line of the garment as the other pair, as shown on the drawings.

The lower part of the skirt is divided into a pair of trunk or leg portions l1 and I8, as best indicated in Figs. 6 and 7 which show the diagonal direction of the crotch l9, and the relative location of the visible openings or slits and 20 between said portions at the front and rear of the garment, respectively. The pleated visual effeet along said slits is produced by the formation of pleats and 25' on the respective leg portions, as best shown in Fig. 7, these pleats being a continuation of the tucks l5 and I5 respectively at the upper portion of the garment.

Somewhat similarly, inverted kick pleats 26 and 26' are provided down each leg portion, as continuations of'the tucks l6 and it, the kick pleats presenting substantially the same visual appearance as the folded material at the corners 22 and 22' in association with the pleats 25 and 25,. at the slits 20 and'20'. It will be understoodthat. the pleats and folds above described are pressed flat;\ir finishing the. rment, and it will be appreciated that the f and rear views of the finished; skirt are approximately the same.

My divided skirt may be madefrom any desired textile or other flexible materiaLand may comprise as many individual pieces of material as may be necessary or desirable in fabricating the to the waistband of the garment, and the latter joining and terminating at the crotch l9, as shown at 3| (Fig.- 6.).

Suitable patterns for making the garment herein described are shown in Figs, 3 to 5, on which the numeral refers to the corresponding parts of the finished skirt.

I claim:

1. A divided skirt comprising an upper portion shaped to fit the waist and hips of the wearer, and a pair of depending trunk portions joined at the crotch of the garment, each of said trunk portions comprising two pieces of material joined by seams extending, respectively, along the side of the garment on the outside of the trunk portion, and along the center of the trunk portion at the inside thereof, and said crotch extending in a diagonal direction from front to rear of the garment so that the trunk portions substantially.

overlap each other, both front and :rear, the visible lines of the division therebetween being substantially oiiset from the median line of the garment, so that the garment presents the appearance of an ordinary skirt.

2. A divided skirt comprising an upper portion shaped to fit the waist and hips of the wearer, and a pair of depending trunk portions Joined at the crotch of the garment, .each of said trunk portions comprising two pieces of material joined by seams extending, respectively, along-the side of the garment on the outside of the trunk portion, and along the center of the trunk portion at the inside thereof, and said crotch being constructed and arranged to extend in a diagonal direction from front to rear of the garment so that the trunk portions substantially overlap each other both front and rear, the visible lines of .the crotch of the garment, each of saidtrunk portions comprising two pieces of material joined by seams extending, respectively, along the side of the garment on the outside of the trunk portion, and along the center of the trunk portion at the inside thereof, and said crotch being constructed and arranged to extend in a-diagonal direction from front to rear of the garment so that the trunk portions substantially overlap each other both front and rear, .the visible lines of division between said trunk portions being substantially ofiset from the median line of the garment, each leg portion having a pleat extending along one side of one of said lines of division and I an inverted pleat spaced from the other line of division, and tuck pleatsleading upwardly from said lines of division and from said inverted pleats substantially to the waistband of the garment, sothat the garment presents the appearance of an ordinary skirt having a pair of pleats on opposite sides of its median line, both front and rear.

-SELDA K. PIERCE.

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