Patent GB-190110119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Clothing for Infants, Children, and Adults.
Inventor: DRURY AGNES LOUISA
Filed: 1901-05-15
Granted: 1902-08-15
Abstract: 10,119. Drury, A. L. May 15. Infants' clothing; invalids' garments; women and children, special arrangements of clothing for; belts; bibs for children; braces; coats and jackets; combination undergarments; comforters; corsets; drawers and pants ; costumes, cyclists' dressing- gowns; equipments and accoutrements; gaiters; muffs; napkins and pilches (infants') ; nightdresses; pinafores; pockets; shirts; sleeves stockings and socks; trousers; undervests; waistcoats; stocking suspenders; waterproof garments.-Relates to garments adapted to facilitate the dressing and undressing of infants and of invalids, and of older children and adults. The infants' garments may be of the kind described in Specification No. 19,900, A.D. 1895. Fig. 1 represents a set of infants' long clothes for indoor wear comprising a combined petticoat and day gown A, a flannel D, a shirt E, and a waterproof covering F for the pilche G, underneath which is a soft napkin H, Fig. 6<a>. The binder J<1> is shown separately in Fig. 2. The garments have fewer and simpler fastenings than usual, pins are not used, and the infant may be dressed while in a recumbent position. Fig. 8 shows a cap with an opening at the back for coolness, Fig. 9 a pair of drawers, Fig. 10 a knitted binder fastened by passing the tabs M through the ho'es M', and Fig. 13 a sock knitted tightly at the ankle part 0 and provided with a laced opening. The nightgown has an opening right down the back, the sleeves are made wide in the armholes and may have running strings. A similar shorter garment can be used as a pelisse. The nightgown may be combined with a long under-flannel, the armholes of which may be provided with an overlap adapted to close underneath the arm of the child. The cosy coat or wrap is provided with two tabs, one at each end of the neck portion, to fasten it, and it may be provided with mittens instead of gloves. Another garment consists of a sleeved - cape with a hood. Short garments for infants and children are made with openings having overlapping parts, the openings, which may be at the shoulder, lying at opposite sides of the body in alternate garments. For girls' clothing there are provided a combined frock and pinafore, a white petticoat, a flannel petticoat, Fig. 15, which may be provided with an inner flounce P, and may be made to fasten around the legs as drawers, a bodice, and drawers. Fig. 18 shows a combined hood W, scarf S, and pocket W'. Fig. 19 shows a strap-fastening for sleeves which are divided from top to bottom. For invalids, three sets of clothes are provided for day, night, and out-of-doors respectively. A woman's day garments comprise a vest, open and folded over at the back and having a band which may serve as a cholera belt, a pair of combinations, divided and overlapping at the back and front, or made with divided legs, and a pair of bodice-stays having two lateral laced openings at the front to facilitate breathing, and for nursing, having chest openings provided with covers. The fastening may be effected by elastic tabs. This set also comprises a flannel petticoat, a white petticoat, and a tea or dressing-gown open all the way down the back and open, or not, along the shoulders and with open sleeves. In all these garments except the corset, the openings are down the back. A nightshirt for invalids is made in two parts overlapping considerably at the front and back ; a vest may be attached to it. Fig. 21 shows a divided skirt for women, when walking or cycling ; it is adjustable in height and is provided with a pocket S' which, when weighted, prevents the overlap from being blown outwards. This skirt, when made of alpaca or light mackintosh, can be used to protect a dress from dust or rain. A man's coat may be formed with divided overlapping parts at the back, and with pieces attached to the front to represent a waistcoat. A combined shirt and smoking-jacket may also be made so as to facilitate dressing and undressing. Fig. 23 shows a pair of trousers made in two parts fastened together in wear by straps and buckles U. In another form the trousers have openings right down the inner sides of the legs. A combination garment is described which is in two pieces, a front and back piece fastened together by overlapping pieces at the sides. The Provisional Specification states that the invention applied to socks, Fig. 13, may also be applied to stockings and gaiters, that braces may be provided with a back portion to give support and warmth, that the front portions of braces may be made wide and provided with lateral extensions which may be fastened together to form an imitation waistcoat, that socks may be split from the base of the ankle to the top of the sock, that the upper part of stockings may be provided with buttonholes or loops to fasten on to buttons on the lower edge of the combinations, that a nightcap may be provided to cover the forehead and eyes, some noise-resisting substance being added to cover the ears, and that the out-of-door set may comprise (1) a foot and hand wrap in one, consisting of a muff or bag for the hands and an attached bag for the feet and legs, and (2) sleeves with or without attached gloves, and (3) a knitted or other cap in the form of a crown. In the Provisional Specification there is also described a bib with a wide back portion adapted to be fastened on one shoulder only.