Patent ID: 7503078
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
1. An underwear substitute article, comprising: a flexible pad comprising four integral parallel equal-length elliptical segments each terminating in independent opposing lobes projecting perpendicularly away from a centerline of the flexible pad, the flexible pad having a top layer with a napped top surface and an integral woven bottom layer, the integral woven bottom layer having an adhesive backing; wherein when the flexible pad is adhered to a crotch of an inner surface of a garment, the centerline of the flexible pad is aligned with an inseam of the crotch, the independent opposing lobes of the four elliptical segments are adhered to the inner surface of the garment on opposing sides of the inseam, and the independent opposing lobes flex independently of one another as the inner surface of the garment flexes.