IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF LADIES' AND GENTLEMAN'S WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sigmund Goldstein, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
PORTIONS OF LADIES' AND GENTLEMAN'S WEARING APPAREL."
Scaled the 18th February 1868, and dated the 6th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
left by the said Sigmund Goldstein at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th December 1867.
I, SIGMUND GOLDSTEIN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF LADIES AND GENTLEMAN'S WEARING APPAREL,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that portion of ladies' wearing apparel called the
petticoat, and is designed for the purpose of providing a garment for ladies
that is reversable and waterproof, and which is capable of being worn with
great advantage and comfort during inclement weather, and at other times be
reversed so as to present an outward woven ornamental or figured skirt. This
portion of my improvements consists in forming or constructing the skirt from
the waistband downwards to about half its length of any suitable kind of
woven material, the lower portion completing the length of the skirt being
formed of waterproof india-rubber "macintosh" lined with a figured or plain
fabric. This lower waterproof portion of the skirt is attached or secured to

page_text: the upper portion thereof by means of buttons, hooks, or similar fasteners that
can readily be attached or detached from the upper portion when it is desired
to turn or reverse the same, thus enabling the wearer to present outwards a
waterproof, or a plain, or figured surface; a quilted or other complete skirt
may be provided with fasteners that will allow the waterproof material to be
attached or secured thereto, when it is desired to wear the same as a prolec-
tion to the under skirt. The same arrangement of waterproof covering may
be also applied with advantage to the long coat tails or cloaks of persons
wearing such outside coverings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Sigmund Goldstein in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIGMUND
GOLDSTEIN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Palent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixiy-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Sigmund Goldstein, Her special license that I, the said
Sigmund Goldstein, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF LADIES' AND GENTLEMAN'S WEARING
APPAREL," upon the condition, (amongst others) that I, the said Sigmund
Goldstein, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention relates, first, to that part of ladies' wearing apparel called
the petticoat, and is designed for the purpose of providing a garment for ladies
that is reversible and waterproof, and which is capable of being worn with
great advantage and comfort during inclement weather, and at other times be
reversed so as to prevent an outward woven ornamental or figured skirt.
This portion of my improvements consist in forming or constructing the skirt
from the waistband downwards to about half its length of any suitable kind
of woven material, the lower portion completing the length of the skirt being
formed of waterproof india-rubber "macintosh" lined with a figured or
plain fabric; this lower portion of the skirt is attached or secured to the
upper portion thereof by means of buttons, hooks, or similar fasteners that
can readily be attached or detached from the upper portion when it is desired
to turn or reverse the same, thus enabling the wearer to present outward a
waterproof or a plain or figured surface; a quilted or other complete skirt
may be provided with fasteners that will allow the waterproof material to be
attached or secured thereto when it is desired to wear the same as a protec-
tion to the under skirt. The novelty of the Invention consists in constructing
a lady's skirt when required as a waterproof skirt in two parts, the upper
portion being composed of any suitable material, to which is attached, by
buttons or other similar fasteners, the lower portion of the skirt which is
composed of waterproof material, the reverse side of which may be ornamental
so as to be worn in fine weather as an ordinary skirt; or the waterproof
material may be constructed so as to form a protection to the ordinary skirts
in dirty weather; when so required the waterproof material is attached to the
ordinary skirt so as to cover the same outwardly. This waterproof covering
may also be worn with advantage as a protection in dirty weather to the long
skirts of the garment worn by certain classes of gentlemen.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings illustrative of same.
Fig. 1 represents in elevation the improved waterproof skirt; Fig. 2
represents a lady's silk quilted petticoat of the ordinary style, which is pro-
vided with buttons which are intended as a medium for attaching thereto the
improved waterproof protector; Fig. 3 represents the waterproof protector
detached from the skirt; and Fig. 4 represents a similar skirt to that shewn
in Fig. 1, having the waterproof material attached thereto, which forms a
covering or protector that prevents the under skirt getting damp or becoming
splashed with mud or otherwise receiving injury.

page_text: In Fig. 1a, a, represents the upper portion of the skirt, which may be
composed of any ordinary class of woven fabric suitable for the purpose; to
this portion of the skirt may be permanently secured or attached by means of
buttons or other suitable fasteners the lower portion of the skirt b, which is
solely composed of waterproof material, or may have one surface waterproof
and the other surface of a plain, figured, or ornamental pattern, the combina-
tion of which will enable the wearer to reverse the skirt so as to present
outwardly according to the weather a waterproof material or a fabric similar
to an ordinary skirt.
In Figs. 2 and 4 c, c, are buttons fixed to a lady's silk skirt of the ordinary
class usually worn; d, d, are loops or button holes formed in the waterproof
protector b; this waterproof protector being light and portable is readily
altached or detached to the skirt so as to cover the lower portion, as seen in
Fig. 3, the material being turned under the bottom of the skirt, by which
means the bottom of the skirt inside is protected; also the waterproof material
may be embossed, figured, vandyked, or scolloped to suit the taste of the
wearer.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel and peculiar employment, use, and adaptation
of a waterproof material to be worn as the lower portion of a lady's skirt, as
shewn and described in Fig. 1 of the Drawings.
Secondly. 1. claim the novel adaptation and combination of waterproof
-protector, shewn in Fig. 3, to be employed or worn as a shield or protector
for ladies' skirts, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in
the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
ALBORILAY
SIGMUND GOLDSTEIN
N. (..)