Improvements in Shirts.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
Improvements in Shirts.
I, VALERIE LEONORA ESSON, of 127, Adelaide Road, London, N.W., in the
County of Middlesex, 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 shirts by means of which certain
advantages are obtained.
It is well known that in dress shirts it is very difficult to have a sufficiently
wide front and at the same time prevent it from being crushed or bulged out of
position when braces are worn. Thus if the front is made so narrow that it does
not extend to the braces it is usually too narrow for the opening of the waistcoat
and therefore is apt to project forwards and hang so to speak outside the waist-
coat. On the other hand if made sufficiently wide to fill up the opening of the
waistcoat it comes under the braces at each side and is crumpled and caused
to project in an unsightly manner.
My invention is designed to overcome these drawbacks and to produce a shirt
having a front sufficiently wide to fill up the opening of the waistcoat and extend
some distance inside the waistcoat on each side and which can yet be left un-
crumpled by the braces.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have appended
hereto a sheet of drawings showing how my invention is to be or may be carried
into effect.
In the said drawings,
Figure I is a front elevation of part of a shirt constructed under my invention,
and
Figure II is a cross section thereof taken on the line x-x of Figure I.
Figure III is a similar cross section of a modified form.
Referring now to Figures I and II, 1, 1 represents the body or limp part of
the shirt and 2 the front or stiff part of the shirt. Instead of attaching the body
of the shirt to the front at the margins 3 of the front as in ordinary shirts the
attachment is made at the parts 4, 4 which are some distance, say two or three
inches, from the said margins so that those parts of the front between the attach-
ments 4 and the margins 3 form extension pieces (hereinafter termed
wings) 5, 5. There are thus recesses 6,6 left between the said wings and the
body of the shirt wherein the braces 7,7 may lie as will be clearly seen in
Figures I and II.
Figure III shows a modified form of my invention. It differs from that shown
in Figure II in that the body, instead of being attached to the front at some distance
from the margin thereof is attached to the said margin but is made with a
sufficient "fulness" so that when the material of this part of the body is folded
inwards a recess is left for the braces similar to that shown in Figure II. In
this case it will be seen that the recesses for the braces are not bounded by the

page_text: wings 5 in front as in the case of Figure II but are bounded in front by the
folds 8.
It will thus be seen that the braces lie behind the wings of the front and there-
fore do not press upon the said front or stiffened part and therefore do not cause
any crumpling or bulging as aforesaid.
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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:
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1. In a shirt the employment of a front having wings substantially as set
forth.
2. In a shirt the combination of wings and recesses behind same for the recep-
tion of braces substantially as set forth.
3. The arrangement and combination of parts substantially as set forth with
reference to Figures I and II.
4. The arrangement and combination of parts substantially as set forth with
reference to Figure III.
For the Applicant,
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.