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Application filed June 5,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Charles G. Dobbs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improve 5 ment in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

It is my object to provide a shirt with a simple and convenient means for lengthening and .shortening the sleeves, so as to keep the cuffs io at such a distance from the wrists as desired. This I accomplish by providing each sleeve with a set of tapes, attached to the sleeve one above the other and connected by a buckle, through theinstrumentality of which the sleeve 15 can be drawn up or let down, as desired. The device is simple, readily applied, cheap, and entirely effective. The buckles can be detachably connected to the tapes, so as to permit their removal wheu the shirt is to be washed. 20 The accompanying drawing represents a shirt having sleeves provided with the devices referred to.

Upon each sleeve are two tapes, a b, attached to the sleeve by sewing or otherwise at the points a' V. With the tapes is combined a 25 buckle, c, by means of which the sleeve can be drawn up or let down, as desired. The buckle shown iu the drawing is a double buckle; but it can be a single buckle, if desired; and in that event it is preferable to connect one of 30 the tapes to it by a button and buttou-hole attachment, which will permit the buckle to be removed whenever the shirt is to be washed.

The device answers admirably the purpose for which it is designed, and is readily applied 35 and cheap, adding little or nothing to the cost of the shirt.