Improvement in Male Wearing Shirts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvement in Male Wearing Shirts.
JAMES WALLACE, Exchange House, 27, Cathcart Street, Greenock, North Britain,
Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The improvement consists of buttoning a shirt on the right or left side, as may
most convenient, instead of in the centre or at the back. In the make of the shirt, a
false flap from the open side may be utilised, to which may be fixed the neck band.
The starched or unstarched front of the shirt would be in one piece and fixed only on
one side, and not as now divided into two parts in the centre, or opening up the
centre. In lieu, thereof, the front portion, of the shirt is fastened or kept in position
by buttoning or using studs, either on the left or right hand side of the chest..
The object of fixing the shirt on the left or right hand side instead of in the front, is
to obviate the wear and tear of the stud holes or the inconvenience of buttoning a
shirt at the back. Various methods of attaching the shirt at the side may be
adopted. The improvement applies solely to male shirts and is applicable to shirts
made of linen cotton, lawn, flannel, flannelette, wool, winsey, grandrille, Oxford, silk
or any other shirting material.
I, JAMES WALLACE, of Exchange House, 27, Cathcart Street, Greenock, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Clothier, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in ordinary wearing or dress shirts, and has
for its object to facilitate the putting on and taking off the shirt, and to save the
wear and tear of the stud holes.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect, I have hereunto appended three sheets of drawings, of which,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvement representing a shirt buttoned
with three buttons (two at the side and one on the shoulder).
Figure 2 is a view of the breast portion of the shirt, with the front thrown
back.
Figure 3 is a front. elevation showing the breast of the shirt in position and fixed
with buttons.

page_text: Figure 4 is a view of the shirt with a wide opening at the bottom of the
breast.
Figures 5, 6, and 7 are similar views to Figures 2, 3, and 4, but of a slightly
different shaped shirt in so far as the shoulders are square, and as in Figure 6
fastened with tabs in place of buttonholes in the shirt.
In carrying out my invention I construct the shirt so that the wearer is able to
button it at the side instead of in the middle or at the back. The breast A of the
shirt is, or may be, provided with a flange portion G, and this is fastened to the side
of the shirt by means of studs or buttons B, B, B. In order to keep the breast of the
shirt in position as well as to facilitate the putting on and taking off the shirt, an
under flap C as seen in Figs. 5 and 7 of angled shape and of a thinner material than
the breast A, is provided. This flap C passes from the collar stud hole D to the
bottom right hand corner of the breast shield E. In addition to the breast A of
the shirt being held in position by the studs and buttons at B, B, B, the collar stud
passes through holes F and F¹.
The neckband of the breast of the shirt may be so extended as shown in Fig. 4
that when carried round to the back stud it may be fixed there, or it may simply
extend to the side of the shirt as in the other Figures. In place of studs or buttons
for fixing the breast in position, tabs B1, B¹, may be provided as shown in Figure 6.
It will be obvious from the foregoing that the breast front is in one piece and that
in order to button or fix the studs at the side so as to keep the breast in position it
will be convenient to have the outside flange G of a thinner texture than the breast
of the shirt. For this purpose the button or stud holes at B, B, B, may be cut in
one or two folds of linen whereas the breast part of the shirt may be three, four or
more folds. The shirt may be buttoned either on the right or left as may be most
convenient.
Having now 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 :-
1. The general arrangement and construction of a wearing or dress shirt, substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated in the several
figures of the accompanying sheets of drawings.
2.. In wearing or dress shirts, the construction of an under flap as specially shown
on the several figures of the accompanying sheets of drawings.
Doted this 16th day of Much 1000
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Patent Agents.