An Improvement in Gentlemen's Shirts.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Gentlemen's Shirts.
I, JAMES SPENCER-BARLEY, of S, Emmanuel Road, Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridge, Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of making gentlemen's shirts, by
which the operation of putting them on or taking them off is greatly facilitated.
Shirts aro ordinarily made to open either at the front or back, the opening
extending from the top of the shirt to the bottom of the front, or from a corresponding
point at, and for a similar distance down, the back. In both these cases the shirt,
when being put on, must be passed over the head, which operation is by most people
regarded as both troublesome and inconvenient.
Shirts manufactured according to my improved method, aro made quite open and
divided in front, from the top of the collar band to the bottom of the skirt, i.e., from
the top to the bottom of the whole shirt; the edges of the divided part below the
"front" being either left open or held together by means of loops and buttons or the
like. The shirt can thus be put on, or taken off, as easily as a dressing gown or house
jacket.
Any of the materials used in the manufacture of shirts may be employed, and the
collar may be made integral with the neck band or separate therefrom.
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I, JAMES SPENCER-BARLEY of 8 Emmanuel Road Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridge Hosier 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved method of making gentlemen's shirts by
which the operation of putting them on & taking them off is wonderfully facilitated.
Shirts are ordinarily made to open either at front or back, the opening extending
from the top of the shirt, to the bottom of the front, or, to a little below the front,
or from a corresponding point at, & for a similar distance, down the back. In both
cases the shirt when being put on, must be passed over the head, an operation
regarded by most people as both troublesome aggravating, & very inconvenient,
shirts manufactured according to my improved method are made quite open &
divided, from the top of the collar band (in front) to the bottom of the skirt
i.e., from the top, to the bottom, of the whole shirt. This applies to shirts made of
any kind of material with any size, or shape, or make of front. The edges of the
divided part below the "front" being either left open, or held together by means of
loops or buttons or the like the shirt can then be put on, or taken off, as easily as a
dressing gown or house jacket the collar may be an integral part of the shirt by
being attached to neck band, or made suparate therefrom.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
That shirts made in this way, as described in my specification aru absolutely
different to any hitherto made, or offered for sale, as they (ie., shirts) have always
been made with quite closed and undivided skirts from bottom of front (or in certain
cases a few inches lower) to the bottom of the skirts of the said shirts, and that
being made quite open & undivided from the top of the collar band to the bottom
of the skirt is a quite new & original improvement in the making of said gentlemen's
shirts.
JAMES SPENCER BARLEY.