Patent ID: 8176573
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: A41B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A pant made from a web, the pant comprising: a boxer shorts garment shell, the garment shell including a front region, a back region, a crotch region between the front region and the back region, a front waist edge, a back waist edge, side seams connecting the front region to the back region, two leg openings and hanging legs, a crotch panel attached to at least one of the front region, the back region, and the crotch region, wherein a distance between bonded regions of upper and lower edges of the crotch panel, measured parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pant, is shorter along a central region of the crotch panel and longer in distal regions of the crotch panel; wherein the hanging legs include no elasticization and no gathering around a full periphery of the leg openings, and at least a portion of each of the hanging legs is non-planar when the pant is in a laid flat configuration prior to formation of the side seams.