A COM- BINED COAT AND VEST
Year: 1885

page_text: I MYER KERSH of 43 Dantzic Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Wholesale Clothier do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A COM-
BINED COAT AND VEST" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is so to make or combine in one, a coat, jacket
or other similar outer garment with a vest or waistcoat, that the coat or jacket
may be worn either with or without the vest being visible as may be required.
My improved method of combining the two garments for this purpose will be
readily understood on reference to the accompanying drawing and the following
explanation thereof.
Fig. 1. in the drawing is an inside view of the combined garment, the rest being
shown as visible at the left, and concealed on the right hand side, and Fig. 2. shows
the appearance of the combined garment when worn with the waistcoat visible.
When the vest is not required to be seen, the external appearance is that of an
ordinary coat or jacket.
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The coat or jacket itself is cut and made in the ordinary manner with the
following exception, that is to say, the inner edges a, a of the front facings are not.
sewn to the body but are left free as shown at Fig 1. and are bound and provided
with button holes at b, b b whereby they can be attached by buttons either to the
inside of the coat as shown at the left hand of Fig. 1. or to buttons on the inside of
the vest as shown at the right hand of the said Fig.
The vest is made of two side pieces c, c one provided at the outer edge with
button holes, and the other with buttons like an ordinary vest, but with no back
pieces whatever.
The inner edges of these side vest pieces are sewn or otherwise attached to the
inside of the coat or jacket along the side body seams at d, d as far up as the arm
hole and the top shoulder seams above the armhole as at e, e see Fig. 1 of the
drawing.
Instead of attaching these side vest pieces direct to the inside of the coat they
may be connected thereto by a piece (or pieces) of elastic web if preferred.
When the vest is intended not to be visible, the inside facings at both sides of
the coat or jacket are unbuttoned from the same and the vest pieces being laid
inside thereof (as shown by the dotted lines) the facings are buttoned onto the
inside of the vest as seen at the right hand of Fig 1. which will keep the best piece

page_text: snugly in its place and quite out of sight, and the coat or jacket may then be worn
either without a waistcoat or with another waistcoat as preferred: but when the
vest or waistcoat c, c is required to be visible, the facings are unbuttoned, the vest
pieces brought forwards and the facings buttoned to the inside. of the coat or
jacket as shown on the left hand at Fig 1.
The vest can then be buttoned in the ordinary manner and will present the
appearance shown at Fig 2. A great advantage over an ordinary coat or jacket
and vest will at the same time be obtained, as the vest pieces being attached to
the inside of the coat or jacket will when buttoned, greatly improve the set and
fit of the latter by drawing it in close to the figure at the back.
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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
A coat, jacket or other similar outer garment combined in one with a vest or
waistcoat so that the coat or jacket may be worn either with or without the vest
or waistcoat being visible, substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the annexed drawings, without confining myself to the precise cut or
form of either garment as shown, or to the particular material or materials of
which the same may be composed.