IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF SHIRTS AND ANALOGOUS GARMENTS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, ROBERT YOUNG, of Love Lane, Wood Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, % Day, Davies and Hunt, Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF SHIRTS AND
ANALOGOUS GARMENTS," 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 certain improvements in or applicable to the manu-
facture of shirts and analogous garments for the use of men women and
children. Especial objects of the improvements are to render such garments
capable of being more easily put on and removed from off the wearer and without
liability of being torn or rent, and to render them more comfortable in wear, and
better adapted for the case and convenience of the wearer, and capable of being
more easily washed dressed and ironed, and in certain modifications to avoid the
use or need of separate vests or waistcoats.
Shirts and analogous garments as hitherto manufactured have been formed with
openings at the upper part of the front or of the back, and which have extended
but a comparatively short distance down the garment and have been provided to
allow of the upper part of the garment (which it is desirable should fit comfortably
about the figure) being opened apart for facilitating the putting on and removing of
such garments, but such garments as thus made do not possess the advantage
attendant upon those made in accordance with the present improvements.
The improvements forming the subject of the present Invention are illustrated
on the accompanying Drawings, and comprise the manufacture of the shirt or like
garment in such a manner as that it may be opened out continuously from top to
bottom so that the garment thus made can be put on and removed from off the
wearer in the manner of putting on and taking off an ordinary coat with very
great convenience, and without the liability of straining tearing or injuring the
fabric or parts thereof which so commonly happens in such garments of the present
formation. Such improvement is of most especial advantage when applied to
shirts desired to open down the front, but it may also be applied with advantage
to shirts made to open down the back or at the side.
An advantageous modification of manufacturing shirts in accordance with such
improvement is illustrated in Figs. 1, and, 2, of the accompanying Drawings in
which the garment is represented as made to open for the full length of the front 1.
This improved formation is most clearly shown in Fig. 1, the right hand half of
which represents the one front half of the shirt as in position for wear, and the
left hand half of which represents the other front half as opened out in position for

page_text: being put on. This improvement may be carried into effect in other equivalent
ways, but in all modifications suitable provision is made, either by means of
buttons and button holes, or studs, 2, or straps, or equivalent means of fastening,
for securing the opened parts of the garment about and conformably to the figure
of the wearer, so that at the time of being worn the garment will seem to all
intents and purposes as if of the usual formation.
This improved system of manufacture is also of especial advantage for the rapid,
easy and cleanly adjustment of such garment at such times as it may be required
to adjust it at one or more parts for the relief or convenience of the wearer, as the
parts can be most readily opened apart as far as necessary and refastened after use;
and the improved formation of such garments is also of peculiar advantage in
enabling them to be more easily and better washed, dressed and ironed.
The improvements also comprise as a novel feature the combination with shirts
formed in accordance with such hereinbefore described improvements, of vests or
waistcoats or the fronts or equivalent parts thereof, so that such garments may be
manufactured or combined together either permanently or detachably. This
improvement is of especial advantage when applied to dress shirts made to open as
aforesaid, and in this and other like applications is of advantage in securing the
shirt and connected vest in their desired relative positions and preventing the one
from shifting or becoming displaced, and it avoids the use of separate garments
which are liable to be put on awry, and by the movements of the wearer to become.
misplaced, and allows of such garments-being-readily-and-together-put-ou-and
removed from off the wearer in the manner of putting on-and-removing an ordinary-
coat, and adds to the comfort of the wearer.
The application of this improvement in combination with the improved formation
of shirt herein before described is illustrated in Fig. 2, in which the shirt is
represented of the improved formation delineated in Fig. 1, and in which, 3,
represents the vest fronts, which may be of any usual or desired formation or shape
and which are combined with the shirt during or subsequently to the manufacture
thereof at the parts, 4, and, 5, by sewing or otherwise either permanently or
detachably.
This improved formation dispenses with the noed of a back to the vest or waist-
coat, as the intermediate back part of the shirt answers the purpose thereof, and