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Patented Nov. 13, I900.

E. BRADLUFF.

APPAREL HOOD. A umxlm Med Aug. 3, 1899.)

(Ila Modal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNESTINE BRADLOFF, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSE'PFS.

APPAREL-HOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,711. dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed August 3,1899.

To all witmn, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Eannsrmn BRADLOFF, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bonnets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of a bonnet-forming blank provided with drawstrings. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a bonnet madefrom the blank shown in Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to make a bonnet which can be easily laundered when desired.

In accordance with my invention blanks of any desired fabric may be used, and by operating the peripheral con figuration of the blank a considerable variety of bonnets having different outlines may be readily produced, the bonnets being ornamented in any desired manner by laces and ribbons attached or otherwise.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention, A represents the bonnetforming blank, which in this case is of oval shape and ornamented at its margins with lace B and provided at its ends with bonnetstrings D D, adapted to be tied together to hold the bonnet in place. I combine with the blank four drawstrings f by means of four passages or bearings which are arranged in line and in pairs along the opposite longer sides of the blank, one pair along the side a the other along the side a I form the passages a by stitching the blankAto the lining A along two parallel lines a a. In these passages are mounted their respective drawstrings f, whose free ends project therefrom and whose outer ends are anchored therein at a near the small ends of the oval, thus leaving portions thereof not traversed by the passages and their draw-strings. Preferably the draw-strings ff, near the front or upper edge a of the blank, should be brought nearer thereto than they are to the rear or lower edge a of the blank, so that when the Serial No. 725,990- (No model.)

draw-strings are drawn up to form the bonnet the margin of the blank between the draw-strings and the blank edge a will hang over the back of the neck, forming the cape of the bonnet.

By drawing the draw-strings so as to shirr the blank or fabric at the back along the opposite longer sides of the blank that part of the blank within the draw-string is made cupshaped to receive the head of the wearer, while the upper and rear margins along the longer sides of the blank form, respectively, the front headpiece and the cape of the bonnet. Further, it will be noticed that those portions of the blank lying between the points of anchorage a. are clear of passages and draw-strings and that by reason thereof when the bonnet is worn the ears of the wearer will lie against those flat clear portions, and thus be relieved of the concentrated pressure which otherwise would exist along the drawstrings were they to cross those clear portions of the blank.

The draw-strings can be readily so tied where they project from their passages in the blank as to make the bonnet of different sizes, and by untying the draw-strings the blank is readily flattened out, so as to be easily laundered and to be nicely rolled for packing.

What I claim is- A bonnet comprising an oval blank of any desired material; a pair of draw-string passages formed therein in line along and near the front edge of one of the longer sides of the blank; a similar pair of draw-string passages arranged in like manner along the other longer side of the blank, but at a greater distance from the rear edge than the other pair is from said front edge, the outer ends of one pair of passages lying opposite to ends of the other pair, and separated therefrom by two plain portions of the blank; and two pairs of draw-strings, each of said pairs being contained in its respective pairs of passages and anchored therein at the outer ends thereof; the margin between said rear edge and the adjacent passages, when the drawstrings are drawn up, falling over the back and forming the cape of the bonnet, the free ends of one pair of said draw-strings projecting from a long side of said blank, and the ends of the other pai r of the draw-strings projecting from the opposite long side of the blank, whereby the blank is drawn into bonnet fOl'lll by pnekering the blank at the central portion of its forehead margin, and also In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNESTINE BRADLO FF.

Witnesses:

EDWARD S. BEACH, A. I. CRAWFORD.

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