Apparel – Body garments
Patent
1986-07-21
1987-10-13
Feldbaum, Ronald
Apparel
Body garments
2 67, 2 78R, 2406, 450 7, 450100, A41B 904
Patent
active
046988475
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an apparel structure which is comfortable and which has good adaptability to movement, which causes neither tension nor slack, and to a process for making an apparel having such a structure in a simple manner. The apparel structure exhibits an excellent body shaping-up effect, and is applicable to various kinds of apparel. Although it is particularly suitable for female underwear and body shaping-up wear, it is also suitable for working wear, sportswear, and leisure wear to be adapted to extensive body movements irrespective of female or male wear.
BACKGROUND ART
In making apparel, the so-called draping has heretofore been adopted. In this case, the human body measurement is conducted according to a system of coordinates including the ordinate and abscissa of the body surface of a human body (see, for example, a "Shinpen: Hifuku to Jintai" edited by Nippon Ningen Kagakukai, Ifuku Bukai, 1983's Edition, pp. 162-167; and "Hifuku Kagaku Soron" edited by Nippon Seni Kikai Gakkai, Hifukugaku Taikeika Bunkakai, Vol. 1, pp. 69-78). The extent of movement is measured in terms of the extent of changes in the ordinate and the abscissa. In making apparel, an increased amount of material is used or a stretch material is used in part with consideration given to the extent of changes. These methods cause slack in the apparel. The apparel fixing mode, namely the mode of fixing the apparel to the body, is based on a stationary body, and is a so-called crosswise (annular) fixing mode of effecting fixation in both the vertical and horizontal directions, which utilizes hooking on the shoulder or the pelvis, or fastening or tying with an elastic cord, a string, a sash, a belt, or the like.
Various kinds of underwear and body shaping-up wear have heretofore been devised with a view to correcting the proportion of a female and preventing the breasts or buttocks from getting out of shape. They are represented by a brassiere, a corset, a girdle, a body suit, etc. The literature disclosing them includes Japanese Utility Model Registration Laid-Open Nos. 164,331/1978, 106,604/1980, 179,824/1979, 81,913/1981, and 98,810/1981; and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 79,702/1981. Those disclosed therein are made based on ideas analogous to that mentioned above, and have a structure based on the crosswise fixing mode.
Conventional apparel has the standard of its design based on the measurement method using the ordinate and the abscissa of the surface of a stationary body, and is essentially based on the crosswise fixing mode which is lacking in flexibility even when consideration is given to the extent of changes caused by movement. The crosswise (annular) fixing model is liable to cause inconveniences in twisting and slanting movements of a human body though it may not be so bad for the forward, backward, leftward, and rightward movements of the body. For example, conventional apparel as mentioned above is liable to cause tension on one side of the body while causing slack on its counterpart. In the case of body shaping-up wear, there have been widely employed a method comprising inserting preliminarily prepared "patterns" made of wire or plastic into the bust, waist, and hip portions, and a method comprising "fastening" crosswise, or in annular form, for example, with a stretchable elastic rubber material. These body shaping-up methods and apparel structures are based on a judgement of the effect of correction only in a state of a stationary body without consideration being given to body movement. Since they are thus not based on the arrangement and movement of muscles, an adverse effect, in fact, appears without the body shaping-effect particularly in a state of movement because of such arrangements are liable to unnatural deformation of the body, trust into a fastened portion of the body, etc. A prolonged use of such an apparel (particularly a body shaping-up wear) is occasionally liable to entail poor blood circulation, subcutaneous affluxion, muscular depression, physique deteriorati
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Feldbaum Ronald
Olds Judith L.
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