Patent ID: 6185743
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
A method for converting a beach changing robe having a front, a back and a normally vertical orientation when worn upon a standing person into a fashionable garment, said front having first and second side edges and a top and bottom, comprising the steps of:anchoring a cincture at a first point horizontally offset in a first direction from a center of said front and still on said front;engaging said cincture with said back at a second point horizontally offset from said first point to maintain said cincture adjacent said back at said second point;slidably passing said cincture through a third point on said front horizontally offset in a second direction opposite said first direction from said center; andpulling said cincture taut between said first and third points and thereby gathering said back together, while consequently drawing said front closer to said back and further consequently tensioning said front against gathering.