Improvements in Jackets and Skirts for Women.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Jackets and Skirts for Women.
1, JOHANN FALLER of Hofstadt 7, Münich in the Empire of Germany, Ladies'
Tailor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The general object of this invention is to produce a costume suitable for varieties
of weather by improving the jacket or bodice so that it may be converted easily
and quickly either into an open fronted jacket or a closed fronted jacket and
providing the skirt with improved means for holding it when desired at a shorter
length and consequently at a greater distance from the ground than it will usually
hang suspended.
The jacket collar and lapels the latter extending down to the lower edge of the
front of the jacket are made so that when turned up they form a high necked close
fitting jacket the one lapel lying over the other and fastened by buttons and button
holes or other suitable fastenings the upper lapel under an additional or false lapel
or strip fastened down the front of the jacket. When the lapels are turned back
the said false lapel is hidden under one of the lapels which then, along their folds,
may just meet from a suitable point below the collar down to the bottom edge of
the jacket. They may be secured back by suitable fasteners and means may
also be provided by holding them together each to each at the waist or there-
abouts so that the jacket with open breast and collar may if desired fit closely to
the waist.
The skirt which may be of any desired pattern and cut is provided at the waist
band or near thereto with small slits through which small strips or tapes pass into
the interior of the skirt, these being attached to the material of the skirt at suitable
points at a distance below the waist. Near each slit aforesaid is a suitable
fastener to retain the strip or tape. By pulling up these strips or tapes or any of
them and securing them by the fasteners at the place desired the skirt will be raised
at the lower part the upper part falling outward in a fold. This method of
suspension does not provide recesses for rain water to lodge in, and gives means for
rapid manipulation and exactly in the manner and to the extent desired.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Jackets and Skirts for Women.
I JOHANN FALLER of Hofstadt 7 Munich in the Empire of Germany Ladies'
Tailor 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:-
The general object of this invention is to produce a costume suitable for varieties
of weather by improving the jacket or bodice so that it may be converted easily
and quickly either into an open fronted jacket or a closed fronted jacket, and
providing the skirt with improved means for holding it when desired at a shorter
length and consequently at a greater distance from the ground than it will usually
hang suspended.
The jacket collar and lapels, the latter exteuding down to the lower edge of the
front of the jacket are made so that when turned up they form a high necked close
fitting jacket the one lapel lying over the other and fastened by buttons and
button holes or other suitable fastenings the upper lapel under an additional or
false lapel or strip fastened down the front of the jacket. When the lapels are

page_text: turned back the said false lapel is hidden under one of the lapels which then, along
their folds, may just meet from a suitable point below the collar down to the bottom
edge of the jacket. They may be secured back by suitable fastenings and means
may also be provided by holding them together each to each at the waist or there-
abouts so that the jacket with open breast and collar may if desired fit closely to
the waist.
The skirt, which may be of any desired pattern and cut is provided at the waist
band or near thereto with small slits through which small strips or tapes pass into
the interior of the skirt, these being attached to the material of the skirt at
'suitable points at a distance below the waist. Near each slit aforesaid is a suitable
fastener to retain the strip or tape. By pulling up these strips or tapes or any
of them and securing them by the fasteners at the place desired, the skirt will be
raised at the lower part, the upper part falling outward in a fold.
This method of suspension does not provide recesses for rainwater to lodge in,
and gives means for rapid manipulation and exactly in the manner and to the
extent desired.
In the drawings
Fig. 1 shows the jacket as worn open that is to say with collar and lapels
turned back.
Fig. 2 shows the jacket closed with the collar turned up.
Fig. 3 shows in full lines the cross section of the lapels as in Fig. 2 and in dotted
lines the lapel as in Fig. 1.
The lapels A and B when turned back to the right and left are secured by
fasteners, 3, 6 fixed on the jacket. The jacket is then closed by hooks and
eyes dd. In Fig. 2 the fasteners are open, the collar e turned up, lapel B
hidden underneath lapel A while the button or studs a on the lapel A are placed
under the false lapel C and held by means of the button hole flaps a' sewn on
underneath the latter.
Near to the waist two fastenings care arranged which may also be secured
separately to produce a smooth and perfect fit, and the collar may be secured by a
connecting flap (kept covered in Fig. 1). It will thus be understood that the jacket
may be worn either quite open, partially closed (Fig. 1) or quite closed.
Fig. 4 shows a back view of a skirt, Fig. 5 the back view of the same when
shortened.
On the waist band e, several holdfasts of any suitable kind are fixed. Through
these and small slits g the bands (or laces) pass to the inside of the skirt to which
their lower ends are fastened at suitable places. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views.
To shorten the skirt after loosening the holdfasts, the upper ends of the bands are
drawn upward and again gripped by the holdfasts 1. By this manipulation the
skirt is drawn up from inside so that the folds h fall outward as shown in
Figs. 5 and 7. Thus no pocket like cavities are produced for water to obtain
lodgement in.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A jacket having two lapels A and B adapted to be turned back (Fig. 1)
or closed (Fig. 2) and kept in their respective positions by fasteners arranged
substantially as described.
2. A skirt having bands or laces f fastened within the skirt passing through slits
in the waist band and held adjustably by hold fasts on the waist band substantially'
as and for the purpose described.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant,