Apparel – Body garments – Collars
Patent
1977-03-18
1978-03-07
Troutman, Doris L.
Apparel
Body garments
Collars
A41B 300
Patent
active
040770664
ABSTRACT:
The garment parts hereof, namely the garment placket, collar and cuffs, have a smooth, neat appearance, obviating the need even for touch-up ironing, and thus are particularly suitable for wash-and-wear promotion. Moreover, the fabric for these parts, although not possessing "recoverable" stretch and thus heretofore unsuitable for my prior patented sewing technique for achieving pucker-free seams (U.S. Pat. No. 3,453,662), are now adapted to be sewn so as to provide the patented result noted. To a significant extent, this desired wash-and-wear performance is achieved by an artificially created "recoverable" stretch in the lining fabric. That is, the invention contemplates converting, by attachment of a control strip to said lining, what is ordinarily bias stretch of a non-recoverable nature therein into that of a recoverable nature, with the result that said "stretch recovery" relieves the sewing thread of tension and tautness and thus minimizes stitch pucker, wrinkles and the like from being manifested in the shirting fabric.
In result therefore, the control strip solves a dilemma presented in the sewing of non-stretch fabrics. The dimensional stability of the non-stretch liner in the straight is required, yet it is unusable because it sews very badly. A bias interliner is also unusable because, while sewing well, it elongates under the stress of the sewing operation and thereafter shrinks back to the dimension of the non-stretch shirting being sewn together with it, causing pucker, bubbles, ripples and distortion after the sewing operation has been completed. The liner and control strip combination thus contemplated in this invention gives the dimensional stability of non-stretch coupled with the sewing qualities of stretch, all to the end of providing the favorable sewing result as set forth in my prior patent, U.S. Pat. No. 3,453,662.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3435463 (1969-04-01), Jay
patent: 3453662 (1969-07-01), Weiss
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