An Improvement in Shirts.
Year: 1886

page_text: I CLARE EDGAR TOWELL, of 99 Bristol Street, Hulme, Manchester, Commercial
Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to shirts open at the front and it has for its object to
enable the two parts of the front to be more readily fastened together by an
ornamental stud, than can now be done, and thereby to avoid liability of creasing
or Boiling the front in the act of fastening it.
The invention has also for its object to enable a corpulent person to put on and
take off the shirt more easily and to ensure a better set of the shirt front.
The objects of the invention are accomplished by sewing the lower edges of the
two halves of the front to the body at a distance from one another, instead of
sewing them together, so as to permanently over-lap at this part as usual, so that
when the shirt is in the flat, the two parts of the front will be separated by a
considerable interval from bottom to top. By this means ample facility is afforded
to introduce the hand behind the front to aid in the insertion of the stud fastening
the two parts together. When thus fastened the parts of the front overlap in the
usual manner and they may be so connected at the lower part by buttoning.
The extra fullness of the body, afforded by the separation of the parts of the
front in the manner above described is available to facilitate the putting on of the
garment.
C. E. TOWELL.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark, Patent Agents,
53, Chancery Lane, London.
An Improvement in Shirts.
I CLARE EDGAR TOWELL of 99 Bristol Street Hulme Manchester Commercial
Traveller, 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 shirts which open at the front for the purpose of
putting on and taking off; and it has for its object to enable the shirt to be put on
and taken off more easily especially by a corpulent person.

page_text: The object of the Invention is accomplished by so making the shirt front that
when it is in the flat and the two parts of the front are unfastened they will be
separated by a considerable interval from bottom to top instead of permanently
overlapping one another at the lower part, as usual. The separation of the parts
of the front in the manner above described facilitates the putting on of the
garment, and the extra width of opening between the parts of the front afford
ample facility for introducing the hand to aid in the insertion of the ordinary
studs fastening the two parts of the front together. When the two parts of the
front are so fastened, they overlap in the usual manner and they may be fastened
together at the lower part by a stud or button.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this
specification, wherein Figure 1 shews the shirt as in the flat, and figure 2 sliews
the same as in wear.
a a are the two halves of the front of the usual shape and dimensions and sewn
into the body in the usual way, except as herein specified. b is the body portion
made of sufficient girth to permit of an interval of about two inches more or less
being left between the portions a a of the front in sewing them at their lower
edges to the body b. The free or unattached intervening portion b' of the body
folds into a pleat when the front is fastened and so the extra fulness is taken up,
but this extra fulness does not necessitate increased dimensions of the material as
the body portion is not fulled or gathered in stitching it to the bottom of the front
as usual the portion corresponding to the usual amount of gather. Button-
holes c may be provided for the insertion of a stud to secure the halves of the
front together at the lower part when in wear. Referring to the other fastenings
of the front the usual stud-holes d'are provided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed; declare that what
I claim is ;-
A shirt, so made that when laid in the flat with the front unfastened there will
be an interval between the two halves of the front at the lower part, the shirt
being for that purpose made of more ample girth immediately below than across
the front, substantially as herein described and illustrated in the drawing.
Date : 1000