Improvements in Shirts, Blouses, and like Garments.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shirts, Blouses, and like Garments.
GEORGE FREDERICK STURGESS, of The Ingle Nook, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Hosier's Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
To attach a body garment such as a shirt or body blouse (herein after called
shirt) to an overlapping lower garment such as trousers or divided skirt (herein
after called trousers) in an improved manner.
Openings are provided around the waist of the shirt. On the inside of the
shirt, above the openings are tabs or shoulder straps buttoned or sewn to the
shirt.
The tabs can be passed through the openings and buttoned on-to the trousers.
Ordinary braces can be employed in place of shoulder straps or tabs.
When attached, the shirt overhangs the trousers and conceals the junction
of the trousers and shirt, and also conceals the braces and renders the belt or
trousers strap unnecessary. When the jacket is taken off as for cycling sporting
or other purposes the shirt gives a better appearance.
Dated this Thirtieth day of July 1897
Improvements in Shirts, Blouses, and like Garments.
GEORGE FREDERICK STURGESS, of The Ingle Nook, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Hosier's Engineer, 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 this invention is to improve the appearance of a person having
his waistcoat or outer garment off, and it consists of a body garment such as a shirt
or blouse (hereinafter called shirt), having provisions to over-hang the trousers,
and facilitate the use of waist pockets, whereby it serves 0.9 a shirt
ΟΙ waistcoat, which may be worn as a combination waistcoat and
shirt, or as an ordinary shirt. Openings are provided around the waist of the
shirt, wherethrough the suspender tabs may pass. The suspenders may be simply
button-holed tabs secured to the shirt. The suspender tabs, be they ordinary
braces or button-holed tabs are passed through the openings and buttoned onto the
trousers. A part of the shirt over-hangs the trousers and it being provided with
waist pockets at this over hanging part & the braces kept out of the way of
the pockets, the shirt has the appearance of a washable waistcoat. The said over-
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page_text: hanging flange part conceals the junction of the trousers. When braces or
suspender tabs are dispensed with, the trousers are simply buttoned to the shirt.
The drawings are on a reduced scale.
Fig. 1 shews the suspenders worn outside the shirt and passed through the
button holes D & E to the trousers buttons, the part of the shirt between D and E
being flanged over the trousers.
Fig. 2 shews the suspenders worn underneath and buttoned to the shirt at the
shoulder button F, and passed through the lower holes E to the trousers the
flange held up to shew one tab buttoned to the trousers button G and the other
tab to the shirt button F.
Fig. 3 shews my invention applied to a fronted dress shirt, in a similar manner
to Fig. 2, the braces having two tabs, the flange being held up to illustrate
buttons and tabs, one tab buttoned to the trousers button G and one to the shirt
button F.
Fig. 4 shews my invention applied to a sweater shirt in a similar manner to
Fig. 3 the flange being turned upward all round and hiding the waistcoat pockets.
Fig. 5 shews the trousers buttoned to the shirt, and the shirt reinforced by
suspenders or shoulder straps sewn thereto, provided to bear the weight of the
trousers.
Fig. shews the shirt seen in Fig. 1 lying full length.
In Fig. 1, the suspenders are attached to the outside of the shirt. The hole
ends or tabs B are threaded through two holes D and E in the shirt, and attached to
the buttons G of the trousers. The waist pockets are cut or formed in the
shirt, in the manner in which waistcoat pockets are usually made. When
the shirt lies full length as seen in Fig. 6 it will be seen that one hole D is
situated in the back of the pocket, and one hole E a few inches below. The shirt
extends down inside the trousers in the usual manner as shewn by dotted lines
Fig. 1 and when flanged over the outside of the trousers, the holes D and E
register with each other in close proximity with the trousers buttons.
In Fig. 2, ordinary braces are employed buttoned to- the shirt buttons Fon
the inside of the shirt, and when thus worn under the shirt the braces are passed
through the lower button holes E only. In Figs. 2, 3 and 4 the waist pockets are
hid owing to the flange of the shirt being held up to shew the holes. On the one
hand the suspender tab is buttoned to the shirt button F, at as when casting the
shirt off in order to keep the braces and shirt intact when not worn which avoids
the threading of the braces through the button holes, on the other hand the
suspender tab is buttoned to the trousers button G in order to suspend the trousers.
In Fig. 3, ordinary double-tabbed braces are employed worn underneath the
shirt, the shirt having a front or starched portion H, by which method the waistcoat
may be dispensed with without shewing the braces, thereby avoiding the crumpled
and soiled fronts incident to the wearing of a waistcoat.
In Fig. 4, ordinary suspenders are used applied in a similar manner to those
in Fig. 3.
In Fig. 5 the holes D are shewn in the centre of the pockets and the trousers
are buttoned to the shirt, the trousers buttons passing right through the flange,
into the waist pockets. The suspenders or shoulder straps F are composed of the
same material, and sewn to the shirt to reinforce and strengthen it to enable it to
support the trousers. In this case the suspenders may be short strips or small
tabs, and not reach over the shoulders.
It will not be necessary to shew a back view of the shirt, as suspender holes
are provided to register with the back trousers buttons, in a similar manner to
the front of the shirt. The suspender tabs or suspenders may be sewn on to the
shirt on the inside or outside or detachable from the shirt, or the shirt itself may
be used to suspend the trousers as indicated, to suit the requirements of the wearer.
It will be understood that the braces worn in the ordinary manner would cover a
and render useless waistcoat pockets in an ordinary shirt.
It will be noticed, that in all the figures the trousers are suspended in a manner

page_text: that the shirt over-hangs, and hides the waistband of the trousers, and makes
waist pockets which would be covered by the braces and trousers in an ordinary
shirt, possibly.
The advantages of this combined shirt and waistcoat, for sporting and athletic
purposes will be readily seen.
I do not attempt to shew all the forms in which my invention may be applied
to the different styles of shirt.
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. A shirt or body garment provided with holes wherethrough braces or
suspender tabs may pass, in a manner that the shirt may be worn inside the
trousers, and flanged as to over-hang the trousers, the suspenders being worn on
top of the shirt, passed through the holes in the flange and buttoned to the trousers,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
2. A shirt or body garment provided with holes wherethrough braces or
suspender tabs may pass, and buttons to receive suspender tabs or suspenders,
whereby the suspenders may be worn on either side of the shirt, and passed
through from one side to the other of the shirt, in a manner that the shirt may
be worn inside the trousers and flanged over as to over-hang the trousers,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
3. A shirt or body garment having braces or suspender tabs attached thereto,
and holes wherethrough they may be passed in a manner that the shirt may be
flanged over the trousers, and a connection made with the trousers buttons on the
one side, and the suspender tabs on the other side of the shirt, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
4. A shirt having provisions whereby the braces or suspenders may be worn on
one side threaded through, and attached to the trousers on the other side of the
shirt, whereby the shirt is flanged over the trousers, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
5. A shirt or body garment having holes so arranged that the trousers may be
buttoned thereto, in a manner that the shirt is worn inside the trousers and
flanged as to over-hang the trousers, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
6. A shirt or body garment having holes wherethrough braces or suspender tabs
may be passed and attached to the trousers, in a manner that the shirt may be
worn inside the trousers, and flanged as to over-hang the trousers, and having
pockets cut or formed in the material of the shirt in the said flange, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
7. A shirt or washable body garment having provisions whereby it will serve as
a shirt under the trousers, and as a waistcoat over the trousers, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
8. A shirt having waist pockets cut or formed therein and provisions whereby
the shirt may be worn under the trousers, and the pockets over-hang the trousers,
and answering the dual purposes of an ordinary shirt or a waistcoat, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
9. A shirt having pockets cut or formed therein at the waist and provisions
whereby the trousers may be supported by the shirt or braces as to allow the
pockets to over-hang the trousers to facilitate their use, and the shirt to serve as a
waistcoat substantially and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 30th day of March 1898.