Improvements in and connected with Ladies' Skirts.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Ladies' Skirts.
I, JEAN MILNE GOWER, of Rossmoyne, Wellesley Road, Sutton, in the County
of Surrey, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
The present invention relates to improvements in and connected with ladies
skirts.
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Ladies when walking in a boisterous wind, and especially when walking
against one, experience great inconvenience and embarrassment from their skirts
being blown close to the person, thereby defining the outline of the latter with
undesirable accuracy. The risk of that inconvenience and embarrassment is
increased by the development of the figure, as well as by the frequent substitu-
tion of knickerbockers and divided skirts for thick underskirts.
The object of the invention is to prevent the inconvenience and embarrassment
above mentioned, and is attained by a special apron to be worn under the front
of the dress skirt. The material of it must be rather stiff, and reasonably pliant
in view of the wearer's movements. The central portion of it from top to bottom
is made additionally stiff, preferably by means of a box pleat. The apron should
extend from about the bottom edge of the corset to the knees. Any suitable
device may be used to hold it in position. It may be either detachable, or be
incorporated with a skirt by being a fixture therein. The width of it is pro-
portioned so that the sides of it and the side margins of the central portion shall
be held between the skirt in front of it and the limbs behind it when the wind
blows, whereby the central portion will be held across from one limb to the other
so as to support the front of the skirt in its normal position.
Dated this 30th day of November 1898
CHAS. S. WOODROFFE,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Ladies Skirts.
I, JEAN MILNE GOWER, of Rossmoyne, Wellesley Road, Sutton, in the County
of Surrey, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to improvements in and connected with ladies

page_text: Ladies when walking in a boisterous wind, and especially when walking
against one, experience great inconvenience and embarrassment from their skirts
being blown close to the person, thereby defining the outline of the latter with
undesirable accuracy. The risk of that inconvenience and embarrassment is
increased by the development of the figure, as well as by the frequent substitu-
tion of knickerbockers and divided skirts for thick underskirts.
The object of the invention is to prevent the inconvenience and embarrassment
above mentioned, and is attained by a special apron to be work under the front
of the dress skirt. The material of it must be rather stiff, and reasonably pliant
in view of the wearer's movements. The central portion of it from top to bottom
is made additionally stiff, preferably by means of a box pleat. The apron should
extend from about the bottom edge of the corset to the knees, so that the sides of
it and the side margins of the central portion shall be held between the skirt in
front of it and the limbs behind it when the wind blows, whereby the central
portion will be held across from one limb to the other so as to support the front
of the dress skirt in its normal position.
It may be detachable or not as may be preferred. If it is detachable, it is
provided with a suitable device for holding in wearing position. If it is not
so detachable, it is made fast to or incorporated with the or an under skirt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The herein before described special apron to be worn under the front of the
dress skirt.
2. The combination of the herein before described detachable special apron to
be worn under the front of the dress skirt and a suitable device for holding it
in the wearing position.
3. The herein before described combination of the special apron with an under
skirt.
Dated this 1st day of September 1899.
CHAS. S. WOODROFFE,
Fel. Ch. Inst. P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant.