Improvements in Shirts.
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Shirts.
I, HENRY PRATT of 1, Doveridge Place, Walsall, in the County of Stafford-
shire, Clothier's Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in shirts and has for object to obviate a
great disadvantage now experienced particularly with respect to dress shirts in
which the starched front so soon as the wearer sits down or bends his body bulges
out or creases and presents an unsightly appearance.
This is caused by the body when in a sitting or curved position contracting in
length between the neck and the waistband of the trousers. The shirt as hitherto
formed is unable to accommodate itself to this alteration and consequently the
fault above mentioned arises.
To obviate this is as aforesaid, the object of this invention and in accordance
therewith I leave the bottom part of the linen front unattached to the calico body
of the shirt.
The sides also of the shirt front for a distance of say three or four inches
upwards from the bottom of same are also loose from the body of the shirt. By
thus making the lower part of the front loose every opportunity is given for the
frout to move down when the body of the wearer is shortened by sitting or
bending, in fact there is nothing to prevent it getting over the trouser band sould
it be formed desirable, and any bending likely to take place will be on the calico
body of the shirt and not upon the stiff front.
1 may also in accordance with this invention, when preferred, make the front
entirely separate from the body of the shirt and attach same to the shirt by
buttons leaving the bottom part loose and free as above described.
Dated this 9th day of January 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
I HENRY PRATT of 1 Doveridge Place Walsall in the County of Staffordshire
Clothier's Manager 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 improvements in shirts and has for object to obviate
a great disadvantage now experienced particularly with respect to dress shirts in
which the starched front, so soon as the wearer sits down or bends his body,
bulges out or creases and presents an unsightly appearance. This is caused by
the body when in a sitting or curved position contracting in length between the neck
and the waistband of the trousers. The shirt as hitherto formed is unable to
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page_text: accommodate itself to this alteration and consequently the fault above mentioned
arises.
To obviate this is, as aforesaid, the object of this invention and in order that
the same may be fully understood reference is had to the accompanying drawings
in which
Fig. 1 represents in front elevation a shirt constructed in accordance with my
invention and Fig. 2 in similar view a modification thereof.
Now in carrying out my invention I leave the bottom part a¹ of the linen front a
unattached to the calico body b of the shirt-see Fig. 1. The sides a² also of the
shirt front a for a distance of say three or four inches upwards from the bottom of
same are also loose from the body of the shirt. By thus making the lower part
of the front loose every opportunity is given for the front to move down when the
body of the wearer is shortened by sitting or bending, in fact there is nothing to
prevent it getting over the trouser band should it be found desirable, and any
bending likely to take place will be on the calico body b of the shirt and not upon
the stiff front.
When preferred and as shewn particularly in Fig. 2 of the drawings I may make
the front a entirely separate from the body b of the shirt and attach same to the
shirt by buttons cleaving the bottom part a', a², of the front loose and free as above
described with reference to Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described the nature of iny said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The improvements in shirts substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
2. Shirts in which the bottom part of the linen front is unattached to the calico
body and remains loose and free; substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and shewn.
Dated this 9th day of October 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for Applicant.