Improvements in and Connected with Gentlemen's Garments for Use for Lawn Tennis, Cricket, Boating, and other similar Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th July 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Gentlemen's Garments for Use
for Lawn Tennis, Cricket, Boating, and other similar Purposes.
I, MARY AYLWARD of 13 Jewry Street. Winchester in the County of Hants,
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
When playing cricket, lawn tennis and such like athletic games the drawers or
pants of the player are apt to slip down the legs and the cricketing shirt also is apt
to ride up and get out of position by the exertions of the player, thus necessitating
constant attention besides producing an uncomfortable feeling and a generally untidy
appearance. Now the object of this Invention is to remedy both these defects by
combining a cricketing or lawn tennis shirt with a pair of drawers or pants so that
each keeps the other in correct position.
According to this invention, I take an ordinary cricketing or lawn tennis shirt or
other similar article cutting away the skirt thereof and attach thereto a pair of pants
or drawers or make the shirt and pants or drawers in one in the manufacture, in
such a manner as to form a single article of clothing, the front thereof having an
opening of sufficient size to facilitate putting on, and taking off the same, when
desired, suitable buttons and buttonholes being provided for closing the same. The
pants or drawers may be open or closed at the seat as desired.
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CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Gentlemen's Garments for Use
for Lawn Tennis, Cricket, Boating, and other similar Purposes.
I, MARY AYLWARD, of 13 Jewry Street, Winchester, in the County of Hants,
Gentlewoman, 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:―
When playing cricket, lawn tennis, and such like athletic games, the drawers or
pants of the player are apt to slip down the legs and the cricketing shirt also is apt
to ride up and get out of position by the exertions of the player, thus necessitating
constant attention besides producing an uncomfortable feeling and a general untidy
appearance. Now the object of this invention is to remedy both these defects by
combining a cricketing or lawn tennis shirt with a pair of drawers or pants so that
each keeps the other in correct position.
According to this invention I take an ordinary cricketing or lawn tennis shirt or
other similar article cutting away the skirt thereof and attach thereto a pair of pants
or drawers or make the shirt and pants or drawers in one in the manufacture in such
a manner as to form a single article of clothing, the front thereof having an opening
of sufficient size to facilitate the putting on and taking off the same when desired,
suitable buttons and buttonholes being provided for closing the same.
The pants or
drawers may be open or closed at the seat as desired.
In the accompanying drawings, which are furnished in illustration of this inven-
tion, Figure 1 represents a front view and Figure 2 a back view of my combination
garment.
A is the cricketing or lawn tennis shirt from which the skirt has been cut off and
the shirt then sewn or otherwise attached to the pantaloons, drawers or other article

page_text: of men's underclothing for the legs B, by means of the band C stitched round or
otherwise affixed to the waist. The front opening D of the shirt is if necessary carried
down so as to form a continuation of the front opening E of the pants, drawers or
the like so as to allow ample room when putting on or taking off the garment. In
the back of the waist is an ordinary gusset with eyelet holes fastened with tape or
cord F in the usual manner. To obviate the necessity of taking off the upper part
of the garment for the purposes of convenience a suitable opening may be left in the
seat seam and the edges of the seam are turned over or under and stitched down to
prevent ravelling or fraying of the material.
The seat opening may be continued right round under the fork and up the front
to meet the bottom of the front opening E, so that in this form, the garment is open
from the neck right down the front, under the fork and along the seat up to the waist
or thereabouts, and secured by the ordinary buttons down the front, and by an
additional button H at the groin and a covering flap G attached to one side of the
seat and provided with a hole to button over on to the other side of the seat as shewn
in Figure 2 but this flap G may be dispensed with entirely as also may the opening
in the seat. As however the cricketing, lawn tennis or other trousers will be worn
over the pants, drawers and the like, the opening or flap or both will be out of
sight.
Although I have described the invention as consisting of two garments sewn or
otherwise united to each other, it is obvious that the combination may be made as
one garment during the manufacture.
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
The combination of a cricketing or lawn tennis shirt with a pair of drawers,
pants or other similar article with or without a seat opening covered with a flap if
desired, substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this day of oury food.
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.