Improvements in Riding Habits.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1590
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Habits.
I, JOHN FORD GLOVER of 10 & 11 Holles Street, Cavendish Square London, W.
Habit Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect such improvements in riding habits that,
when a rider is thrown, the habit shall not be held by any part of the saddle.
To effect my purpose I make the habit with or without a hem. From the waist
downwards for about a foot the habit is fastened together by buttons which are
liberated from the button holes by a slight upward pressure. Running obliquely
towards this row of buttons is another row buttoned on to a flap on the pants. The
habit is further attached-to-the-wearer-by-an-elastic-band-passing-round the leg
under the knee. One foot of the rider is placed in an elastic loop attached to the
habit below the leg band. The other foot is placed in the stirrup and can also if
desired be placed in an elastic loop to hold the habit down. This loop can be so
attached to the babit as to be liberated from it with a slight strain.
Dated this 21st day of February 1890.
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Habits.
I JOHN FORD GLOVER, 10 & 11 Holles Street, Cavendish Square London, W. Habit
Maker, 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 object of my invention is to effect such improvements in riding habits that,
when a rider is thrown the habit shall not be held by any part of the saddle.
To effect my purpose I make the habit with or without a hem. From the waist
downwards for about a foot the habit is fastened together by buttons which are
liberated from the button holes by a slight upward pressure. Running obliquely
towards this row of buttons is another row buttoned on to a flap on the pants. The
habit is further attached to the wearer by an elastic band passing round the leg under
the knee. One foot of the rider is placed in an elastic loop attached to the habit
below the leg band. The other foot is placed in the stirrup and can also if desired be
placed in an elastic loop to hold the habit down. This loop can be so attached to the
habit as to be liberated from it with a slight strain.
To show more clearly how my invention is carried out 1 furnish drawings in which
the same letters represent corresponding parts.
Fig. 1. represents the skirt as worn on horseback seen from the off side.
Fig. 2 shows the skirt unfastened.
A is waistband.
B is row of buttons which are inserted into button holes C.
Dis button at bottom of skirt inserted into button hole D¹.
E is row of buttons on skirt to which a flap on pants is attached.
F is an elastic band fastened to skirt and coming round the right leg below
the knee.
Gis rest for right foot.

page_text: If the rider is thrown forward over the saddle the buttons B come out from the
button holes C and the skirt is not held by the pommel.
Having now particularly described & 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 form and structure of the riding habit skirt substantially as described and
shown in the drawings.
2. In a riding habit skirt the method described and shown in the drawings of
attaching together the upper parts of the habit skirt for the purpose described.
3. In a riding habit skirt the method of attaching the skirt to the pants sub-
stantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 29th day of April 1890.
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for the Applicant.