Woman's garment

Application filed February 19, 1930. Serial No. 429,536.

This invention relates to women’s garments, and has more particular referencetio slip-on garments of kind disclosed in my U S. Patent #1,709,337 of April 16,1929.

The purpose of my present invention is render the garment of the double slit si i type disclosed in the patent, reversible w th presentation of entirely different aspects under alternate conditions of use.

One way in which this desideratum can be conveniently attained in practice, in connection with garments of the type referred to without increase in the cost of their manufacture, will be manifest from the following detailed description of the ^attaX®^d, ino-s. Fig. I is a perspective illustration showin o- my improved garment under one SSitta oi use with a corner of one of the skirt sections turned up to disclose an im _a diagrammatic vertical detail section, taken as indicated by the arrows ^Fi?¹ Ill is^a diagrammatic cross section of the garment, taken as indicated by the arrows tit__III in Fig. I; and,

Fig. IV is a view like Fig. I, but with the garment reversed.

As in the patent above referred to, the gar 30 ment herein illustrated is of the slip-onivariety comprising a bodice portion 10 with shoulder straps 11; and a skirt portion 12 embodying two circumferential components or sections 12α, 12δ;, one within the other, and 35 whereof the upper edges are joined to the bodice portion 10. These skirt sections 12α 12δ are vertically slit downward from the waist line at opposite sides of tne gasmen* as at 13, 14, and so disposed that the slit m one section is lapped by the other section, as shown in Fig· HI· . ,.

In accordance with my present invention, the skirt sections 12α, 12δ are made from materials which are physically differentiated either through contrast of texture or color. In the drawings, I have shown the distinction between them conventionally by leaving one of them plain and by surface shading the other for the purposes of contrast. In the vicinity of the slit 13,1 provide the skirt secSerial No. 429,536.

tion 12δ with a panel 15 made from the same material as the other skirt section 12α, as shown in Fig. I, for exposure at said slit Thus, notwithstanding spreading of the slit to 13, as in walking, the skirt 12 presents a solid 85 color effect, as shown in -Fig. I v to wit,the color of the section 12α. The skirt section 12α is likewise treated, that is to say, it is provided with a panel 16 made from the same material as the skirt section 12δ, which panel 80 is adapted to underlie the slit 14 'when the skirt 12 is reversed, as m Fig. IV, to similarly appear through said slit when the latter is parted incident to leg or other movement. Obviously, instead of resorting to the use of «5 panels 15, 16 such as just described, I may make each of the skirt sections 12α, 12b throughout of two thicknesses, using two different materials and arranging the sections so that the differentiated faces oppose TO each other; or again, I may employ in. each instance, a single thickness of material whereof opposite faces are either contrastingly colored or of different textures with attamment of results corresponding m all re- W spects to those previously pointed out upon reversals of the garment. Furthermore, the waist portion 10 of the garment may be made of different material from the skirt portion 12: or it may be made integral with one or »0 both skirt components 12a, 12δ, as found convenient or desirable in practice.

My invention is thus capable o± considerable variation, its main aim however being, as hereinbefore stated, to provide a reversib e o-arment of the split skirt type which pre! sents entirely different aspects under alterj nate conditions of use. .