Three-part garment for women and girls

Application filed September 13, 1023.

To all whom it may concern: .

Be it known that I, Sophia Clasiage, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Three-Part Garment for Women and Girls, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawing accompanying and forming a io part hereof, is a'specification.

This invention relates to a garment designed to be worn· by women and girls engagedin and about house work, and which will permit the wearer to go to the market, 15 or other short distances from the house, without removing·any part of the garment, by the addition to the part or parts worn in the house of an additional part.

Among the objects of the invention are to 0') obtain an apron having pockets therein, a protector to be worn .with said apron, to protect the front of the . apron from beingsoiled or dirtied, while at the same time access may be had to the pockets of the 05 apron. An additional object is to obtain an apron provided with pockets and a skirt which may be worn with said apron, and when so worn the portion of said apron covered by said skirt serves as a petticoat, ^:!(1 and at the same time access may be had to said pocket. And a further object is to obtain a three part garment having pockets in one part thereof, all of which may be worn simultaneously, and access may at all 35 times be had to said pockets. An additional object is to obtain a three part garment which may be worn as an apron; as an apron and protector; and as an outdoor garment or dress, with a part of the apron having 40 the appearance of the waist to the skirt, and the remainder of the apron serving as a petticoat to the skirt.

In the drawing referred to Fig. 1 is a front elevation of an apron forming a part -in of the invention, with a protector, also forming a part of the invention, indicated in place thereon, by broken lines.

Fig. 2 is a front of the apron part of the garment, with the skirt part or member in 50 place thereon.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a skirt part of the garment.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of a portion of the apron part of the garment.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the protector part of the garment.

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Fig. 6 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, on line 6—6 of Fig. 2. viewed in the direction indicated by arrows, illustrating the manner in which access is had to a pocket oo in ..the apron part of the· garment when the skirt part and the -apron part are both being worn.

And Fig. 7 is an elevation, on. an enlarged scale, of a belt which is preferably worn os with the garment when tire skirt part and the apron part are joined.

A reference character, .-applied .to designate a given part indicates said part throughout the several figures of the drawing wherever 7^!> the same appears.

represents an apron, provided with sleeves,. 2, 2, with, collar 3, and pockets 4, 4. 5, 5, respectively represent flaps which are secured at the upper edges thereof, as at 75 6, (Fig. 6), to the upper edges of the front part of the pockets 4, *4. 7, 7, 8, 8, and 9, 9, respectively represent buttons on apron 1. 10,10, represent trimming preferably placed on the apron for purposes of ornamentation, and are illustrated as extending from .buttons 7, 7, to the waist line of skirt 11, and are covered at their lower ends by belt 1.2, when skirt 1.1 is assembled on apron 1, and a dress effect is desired. 13, 13, Fig. ⁹⁵3, represent button holes, by means of which, when buttons 9, 9, are used, for attaching skirt 11 in place on apron 1, the upper end of the skirt is secured in place on the apron. It will be observed, by Fig. 4, that vo buttons 9, 9, extend entirely around the apron. 14, 14, respectively represent slits in skirt 11, which are protected from tear and made sightly in appearance by hemming or braiding 15,15. Slits 14, 14, respectively 05 register with the openings to pockets 4, 4, when the skirt is secured on the apron as last above described; and the flaps 5, 5, are at said time drawn through said slits. When so drawn through the slits said flaps ico have the appearance of flaps to pockets in the skirt; while, in fact access to pockets 4, 4·, on the apron 1, is to be had through said slits 14, 14. 16, Fig. 5, represents the protector part or member of the garment, and 105 is provided with button holes 13% 13% and 13% 13% and with slits 14% 14“. Protector 16 is secured on the apron 1, by engaging button holes 13% 13% with buttons 8, 8; and the button holes 13% 13% with buttons 9, 9, no or with some thereof. The slits 14% 14% are provided with hems or bindings 15“, 15^a.

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The protector 16 may be secured on the apron 1, in the manner last described when skirt 11 is also secured thereon; but is usually secured on said apron 1 when said 5 skirt is not secured in place, as is indicated by the broken lines . 16, 16, Fig. 1. At all times when the protector is secured in place on the apron part of the garment the slits 14^a, 14^a, register with the upper edges of 10 the pockets 4, 4, and flaps 5, 5, are drawn through said slits 14^a, 14^a, to give the appearance that said flaps pertain to pockets in said protector; and at the same time to afford access to pockets 4, 4, in the apron.

It will be observed that while I illustrate and describe buttons and co-acting button holes for attaching two or three parts of the garment together, I do not desire to limit myself to that particular way of attaching 20 them, as it is well known that snap fasteners, hooks and eyes, and short pieces of braid or narrow ribbon are commonly used means for fastening together a plurality of articles of women’s apparel.