Improvements in Knickerbocker and Riding Breeches.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knickerbocker and Riding Breeches.
We JACOB DEGE and FRIEDRICH DEGE trading as J. Dege & Son of
13 Conduit Street St. George's Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex
Tailors do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—'
Great discomfort is very frequently even if not invariably occasioned to the
wearers of knickerbocker breeches and perhaps more particularly of riding breeches
by reason of certain seams thereof one of which is the longitudinal seam inside the
leg where it crosses the knee while the other is the transverse seam round the leg
by which the knee band is connected.
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The object of our invention is to obviate and remedy this evil in a simple but
very efficient manner.
To carry out this object the longitudinal seam of the breeches inside the leg
commences at the usual place and is continued downwards a certain distance as is
customary but at a position about half way between the fork and the knee this
seam is diverted from its usual course and trends towards the front of the leg and
thus is continued to the bottom of the breeches. This seam is so diverted so far
and to such an extent that it cannot affect or hurt the knee bones and in the case
of riding breeches cannot be between the knee and the saddle while in all cases the
ordinary appearance of the usual strapping is produced. The seam is so and in
this manner created and directed by cutting the two pieces of cloth or other
material of which each leg of the breeches is made correspondingly and comple-
mentarily that is to say the underside piece is enlarged in a rounded shape where
the seam is diverted as aforesaid to form the strapping while the topside piece is
cut away in the same place under this strapping.
The knee band made of a separate piece can likewise be dispensed with by
prolonging downwards if necessary both the pieces of cloth or other material of
which each leg of the breeches is made and by forming a flap on the one edge of the
one of such pieces preferably on the inside lateral edge of the underside piece
which flap can be secured by buttoning or otherwise over and on the other piece
and thus the transverse seam round the leg is not needed and this flap may prefer-
ably be in one with the piece on the edge whereof it is formed although it may
also be connected thereto.
Tinted thi. 17th Jow of Tom1901
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knickerbocker and Riding Breeches.
We JACOB DEGE and FRIEDRICH DEGE trading as J. Dege & Son of
13 Conduit Street St. George's Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex
Tailors 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 :-
Great discomfort even if not pain is very frequently perhaps almost invariably
occasioned to the wearers of knickerbocker breeches by reason of certain seams
thereof one and the chief of which is the longitudinal seam inside the leg where it

page_text: crosses the knee while the other is the transverse' seam round the leg by which the
knee band is connected and attached in its necessary position and this great evil is
perhaps even still more pronounced in and is perhaps even still more particularly
experienced by the wearers of riding breeches when these seams are between the
leg and especially the knee and the saddle.
Now the object of this our invention is to entirely obviate and completely remedy
this great evil in a very simple but extremely efficient and effective manner.
In order the more clearly to explain this our invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed we refer to the accompanying drawing wherein we have
shewn our invention as applied both to knickerbocker breeches and to riding
breeches.
Figure 1 is the underside or back piece of cloth or other material and
Figure 2 is the topside or front piece of cloth or other material that together
make up and constitute the one leg of our knickerbocker breeches.
Figure 4 is the underside or back piece of cloth or other material and
Figure 5 is the topside or front piece of cloth or other material that together
make up and constitute the one leg of our riding breeches.
In both the knickerbocker breeches and the riding breeches the longitudinal
seam inside the leg commences at the customary and usual position A in the fork
and is continued downwards a certain distance in the customary and usual direction
and manner but at the position B about half way between the fork and the knee this
seam is diverted from its usual and ordinary course shewn by the dotted line a in
Figure 1 and by the dotted line 6 in Figure 4 and instead of proceeding along such
usual and ordinary course trends towards the front of the leg and thus is continued
downwards to the bottom of the breeches at D. This seam is so and in this manner
directed and diverted and created by forming and cutting the two pieces of cloth or
other material of and by which each leg of the breeches is made accordingly and
complementarily that is to say the underside or back piece is enlarged in and of a.
rounded shape where the seam is diverted at B to form the strapping as is shewn
at E in Figure 1 and at F in Figure 4 while the topside or front piece is
complementarily cut away in the corresponding place under this strapping as is
shewn at H in Figure 2 and at K in Figure 5. This seam likewise is so diverted
so far and to such an extent as is shewn in these Figures that it cannot affect and
hurt the knee bones and in the case of the riding breeches cannot be between the
knee and the saddle while in all cases the ordinary and desirable appearance of the
customary strapping is produced.
To create the required knee band without having as is usual a transverse seam
right round the leg both the pieces of cloth or other material of and by which each
leg of the breeches is made may if necessary be prolonged downwards as is shewn
at L in Figures 4 and 5 in respect of the riding breeches but in respect of the
knickerbocker breeches it will most generally be advisable only so to prolong the
underside or back piece as is shewn at M in Figure 1 for the same purpose and thus
the usual and ordinary transverse seam shewn by the dotted line d in Figure 1 is
dispensed with and on the edge of this prolongation M may be formed a flap N
which may as is shewn in Figure 1 be connected and attached to such prolongation M
or may be made in one piece therewith whereby the seam P would also be dispensed
with.
To enable and cause the knickerbocker breeches to sit and fit properly round and
about the knee it is most convenient even if it be not absolutely indispensable to cut
away a certain part shewn at R in Figure 1 of the underside or back piece of cloth
or other material of and by which in combination with the topside or front piece
each leg of the breeches is made and to insert in this place a back half knee band
shewn in Figure 3 and the edge e in Figure 1 is fulled on to the edge fin Figure 3
while the edge h in Figure 1 is put on plain to the edge & in Figure 3 and this back
half knee band will obviously be on the outer side of the leg and therefore the
seams thereof will not occasion any discomfort or even inconvenience to the wearer.
The lateral free edge of this back half knee band shewn in Figure 3 when

page_text: connected and attached in position as is hereinbefore described is secured by
buttoning as shewn or otherwise in any convenient and usual manner as may in each
case be preferable under and to the flap N hereinbefore described or this flap may
when desired be connected and attached to or be made in one piece with this back
half knee band instead of to or with the prolongation M hereinbefore described in
which case likewise the two parts would similarly be secured together by buttoning
or otherwise.
For the same purpose in and with riding breeches it is likewise most convenient.
even if it be not absolutely indispensable to cut away a certain part shewn at T in
Figure 4 of the underside or back piece of cloth or other material of and by which
in combination with the topside or front piece each leg of the breeches is made and
to insert in this place a back half knee band shewn in Figure 6 and in this case the
edges m and min Figure 4 are put on plain to the edges n and n' in Figure 6 and
this back half knee band will likewise obviously be on the outer side of the leg.
and therefore the seams thereof will not occasion any discomfort or even
inconvenience to the wearer. The lateral free edge of this back half knee band.
shewn in Figure 6 when connected and attached in position as is hereinbefore.
described is similarly secured by buttoning as shewn or otherwise in any convenient.
and usual manner as may in each case be preferable to the prolongation L in
Figure 5 hereinbefore described.
Thus in knickerbocker and riding breeches made and created and formed and
fitted according to this our invention as hereinbefore described and shewn in
the accompanying drawing the great evil of having seams inside the leg and across.
or about the knee which is cow so very objectionably prevalent will be entirely
obviated and completely remedied and this is extremely convenient and desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. In knickerbocker and riding breeches the longitudinal seam inside each leg
directed and diverted and created substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore.
described and declared.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts and devices constituting each leg
of our knickerbocker and riding breeches substantially as hereinbefore described
and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated th18 240 0AY OF MATCH 1.94.
Dated this 24th day or VIATCH 1894.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.