A New or Improved Combined Safety Cycling Skirt and Knickerbockers for Ladies' Wear.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Safety Cycling Skirt and
Knickerbockers for Ladies' Wear.
I, SAMUEL MUNTUS CLAPHAM, of 13, Queen's Road, Bayswater, London, W.,
Tailors' Cutter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved combined safety cycling skirt and
knickerbockers for ladies' wear and is intended to overcome the objection existing
to the present style of knickerbocker costume which chiefly applies when the
wearer is on foot.
According to this invention, I cut the skirt as an ordinary gored skirt, with a
large pleat on the side seam. The knickerbockers are cut very full and joined to
both back and front of the skirt on the left side and across the front at waist and
fastened to front of skirt on the right side. The knickerbockers are gathered into
a band under the knee and fastened with a buckle and strap.
The back of the skirt is fastened by hook or otherwise to the inside of the pleat
round the figure when the wearer is on foot and so form a complete skirt. When
the wearer is on the machine the back part of the skirt is brought over the front
and fastened to the right side, forming an apron across the knees of the rider and
leaving the back wheel and pedals quite free from contact with any part of the
rider's dress, besides which, no surplus material is left to flow about or become
entangled in the cranks of the machine.
Dated this 5th day of November 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Combined Safety Cycling Skirt and
Knickerbockers for Ladies' Wear.
1, SAMUEL MUNTUS CLAPHAM, of 13 Queen's Road, Bayswater, London, W.,
Tailors' Cutter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved combined safety cycling skirt and
knickerbockers for ladies' wear and is intended to overcome the existing objection
to the present style of knickerbocker costume which chiefly applies when the
wearer is on foot.
In the drawings annexed hereto,
Figure 1 represents this improved skirt as worn in riding,
Figure 2 a half side and back view of the skirt as worn in walking,
Figure 3 is a front view of the front half skirt with the back half skirt extended
before being brought to its fastenings on the right hand side of the wearer.
Figure 4 represents a back view of the knickerbockers and front skirt and the
back half skirt extended similarly to Figure 3.

page_text: According to this invention, I cut the skirt as an ordinary gored skirt with
allowance for a large pleat on the side seam and the skirt is left open, that is
unseamed, on one side."
The knickerbockers k are cut very full and joined to both back and front half
skirt a and b on the left side c and across the front half skirt at the waist d. The
front half skirt 6 is also joined to the knickerbockers k at the right hand side,
sufficient fullness being allowed.
The knickerbockers will be made with proper waistband and fastenings and be
gathered into bands below the knee and be furnished with buckle and straps
required.
The back half skirt is fastened at its upper edge into a waist band-piece or
edging piece e, which can be fastened by hooks or otherwise to the inside of the
pleat round the figure when the wearer is on foot, and so will be formed the
complete skirt.
When riding, the back part of the skirt will (see Fig. 1) be brought round over
the front and be fastened to the side seam so forming a double fold or apron across
1.e knees of the rider and leaving the back wheel and pedals quite free from
contact with the skirt of the dress besides which no surplus material is left to blow
about or become entangled in the cranks of the machine.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is :-
The combined cycling skirt and knickerbockers as and for the purpose herein
described in reference to and substantially as shewn by the drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1896.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chaucery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.