USRE8435E - Improvement in under-clothing - Google Patents

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s. T. CONVERSE. Underolothing.

No. 8,435. Reissued Sept. 24,1878.

UNITED Surnurns PATENT OFFICE.

SUSAN TAYLOR CONVERSE-OF WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN UNDER-CLOTHING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,190, dated August 3, 1875; Reissue No. 8,435, dated September 24, 1878 application filed July 13, 1878.

To all whom it map concern:

Be it known that. I, SUSAN TAYLOR CON- VERSE, of Woburn, Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Under-Clothing for Women, of which the following is a specification In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a partialrear elevation, of a garment embodying my invention.

The main feature of my invention consists in a garment-formed of a body or waist, open in front, high or low necked, long orshort sleeved, out after a peculiar pattern new with me, by which a waist canbe made to fit thefigure, support the breasts in their proper positions, and be both comfortable and healthful to the wearer; also, in the combination, with this body or waist, of independent legpieces, so as to make a complete garment, such as, is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, in which- D D are the leg-pieces, and, the remainder what I have termed a body. '1 form the body of the garment of the neck-pieces A A, waist-pieces a b c, and. back-pieces e, and insert in the opening thus left the breast-pieces B B. The piece a must be considerably wider at the bottom than at the top, and its upper part must be between the breast-pieces B and the arm size. These breast-pieces are gathered at top and bottom to give the necessary fullness in one direction, and are cut curved either at top or bottom, or both, to give the necessary fullness in the other direction, and the front end is cut shorter than the rear end to holdthe breastrpieces in such position as to form a receptacle, thereby allowing the breast to lie undisturbed by other clothing and free from imitation by the movements of the body while in exercise.

I Secure to the body of the garment two or more rows of buttons. Each button is sewed through several thicknesses of cloth, placed opposite the button upon the under side of the 1 garments. This prevents the buttons being torn off in wear or washing. The upper row of buttons is at the waist-line, the others be- I low the first, each row being at such a distance from the other as not to obstruct the buttoning on of other garments. By this arrangement the waistband of .the under skirt is below the waistband of the skirt next above it, and so of all of the waistbands, each is below that of the skirt outside of it,

instead" of having the 'waistbands of all the under-clothing on the same level, and one overlapping the other, which overlapping makes an unhealthful thickness of material around the waist, and also taxes one part of the human body with the weight of nearly all the clothing. The leg-pieces D D are each separate and distinct from the other, and are united only, by the band (1, and may be buttoned, sewed,

of the body A, the breast-pieces B B, and leg-.

pieces DD, constructed and arranged together as described.

SUSAN TAYLOR CONVERSE. r

Witnesses:

J. E. MAYNADIER, GEOBGEO. G. Gonna.

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