Apparel – Body garments – Coats
Patent
1997-08-27
1999-02-02
Hale, Gloria
Apparel
Body garments
Coats
2 85, F41D 302
Patent
active
058648798
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a clothing ensemble allowing one to wear a jacket as a single-breasted jacket or a double-breasted jacket. This invention also relates to jacket dickey models designed to complete such a clothing ensemble.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART
Currently, it has already been proposed to achieve alterable clothing by switching at least one detachable element for another. Thus, with example, patent FR 2.383.619 describes a vest with interchangeable pieces of fabric. Patents FR 1.386.954 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,535,245 describe clothing with a detachable, interchangeable collar. Along the same lines, patent FR 2.593.356 describes an article of clothing that can take the form of a coat, a casual jacket, or a dressier jacket with or without sleeves, by adding or removing detachable elements. One can also cite patents FR 1.464.680, CH 602.029 and BE 689.204 that describe jacket bodies to which can be attached, in a detachable fashion, a shirt front or a vest front in order to achieve trompe l'oeil clothing that serves both as a jacket and a shirt or as a jacket and a vest.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention also aims to provide alterable clothing through exchange of a detachable element, and its essential objective is to provide a clothing ensemble that allows one to create a single-breasted jacket, or a double-breasted jacket each having a traditional appearance.
To this end, a clothing ensemble is provided including a jacket body having a frontal median opening with vertical edges extended by a horizontal edge located at the top of the back. These edges are equipped with a detachable continuous attachment device.
According to the invention, this clothing ensemble comprises two jacket dickey models adapted for continuous attachment to the jacket body, each dickey model including in a single piece a front with a cut edge paired with the opening of the jacket body, a collar sham and a jacket collar, and is equipped along its cut edge and collar sham with an attachment device paired with that of the jacket body intended to cooperate with this jacket body. One of the dickey models has an edge-to-edge closure and a single-breasted collar. The other dickey model has an overlapping closure and a double-breasted collar.
It should be noted that the expression "two jacket dickey models" aims to define jacket dickeys allowing one to achieve a single-breasted jacket and a double-breasted jacket respectively. Each "jacket dickey model" may therefore consist of a single jacket dickey or of two or more jacket dickeys.
Therefore, for the purpose of achieving a single-breasted jacket, various jacket dickeys can be created by producing different button fastenings and by giving these jacket dickeys either a tunic collar or a narrow or wide notched lapel collar.
Similarly, in view of achieving a double-breasted jacket, various jacket dickeys can be created by producing different button fastenings and by giving these jacket dickeys either a narrow or wide notched collar.
Such a clothing ensemble is therefore composed of a jacket body and of interchangeable jacket dickeys adapted for completing this jacket body and for giving the ensemble the appearance either of a double-breasted jacket or a single-breasted jacket, giving it either a traditional or sports style.
According to a first variant of the preferred embodiment of the invention, the continuous detachable attachment devices consist of zippers each constituted of two bands edged with teeth, one of said bands comprising a slide equipped with a pull handle: body and of each jacket dickey model so that the pull handle of each slide faces toward the inside of the jacket, dickey comprising an overlapping border that covers the zippers.
This arrangement of zippers set are in inverse fashion compared to a traditional mounting. Furthermore, they are combined with the presence of overlapping borders allows one to achieve a virtually invisible connection between the jacket body and each jacket dickey model, which gives the
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