Improvements in and relating to Shirts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1>94
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Shirts.
1, WILLIAM CHAMBERS WILLIAMS of 91, Queen Victoria Street, London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved front or bosom for shirts and means for
attaching same to the shirt, intended specially for use with evening dress shirts,
which are liable to get crumpled when the wearer stoops, and the invention has for
its object to provide an arrangement by which this will be obviated, allowing the
shirt to be worn with greater comfort.
.
The front is made with a back piece or apron to which it is attached all round
the edges, extending for some, distance on each side of the bosom. This piece is
attached to the body of the shirt at the neck and shoulders, so that the front of the
usual stiffly starched material is fixed securely in proper position. The bosom or
front is thus quite loose, and can move on the shirt, allowing the latter to be
crumpled, as in stooping, without interfering with it, while being at the same time
firmly attached at the upper part. I prefer to button the shirt at the back,
and make the front in one piece, but it can be made to open in front, as in
the ordinary shirt. These bosoms can be readily attached to woollen as well as
linen or cotton shirts, if desired.
For evening wear with open waistcoats, the apron, should the bosom project
beyond the waistcoat, will give the appearance of the ordinary shirt front
preventing the edges of the front being seen as would be the case if the latter
simply hung loose on the body of the shirt, and also preventing it being shifted to
one side.
.
Dated this 18th day of Nov 1902
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Shirts.
I, WILLIAM CHAMBERS WILLIAMS of 91 Queen Victoria Street, London,
Gentleman, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved front or bosom for shirts and means for
attaching same to the shirt, intended specially for use with evening dress shirts,
which are liable to get crumpled when the wearer stoops, and the invention has for
its object to provide an arrangement by which this will be obviated, allowing the
shirt to be worn with greater comfort. The front is made with a back piece or
apron to which it is attached all round the edges, extending for some distance on
each side of the bosom. This piece is attached to the body of the shirt at the neck
and shoulders, so that the front of the usual stiffly starched material is fixed securely
in proper position. The bosom or front is thus quite loose, and can move on the
shirt, allowing the latter to be crumpled, as in stooping, without interfering with
it while being at the same time firmly attached at the upper part. I prefer to
button the shirt at the back, and make the front in' one piece, but it can be made to
open in front, as in the ordinary shirt.

page_text: These bosoms can be readily attached to woollen as well as linen or cotton shirts,
if desired. For evening wear with open waiscoats, the apron, should the bosom
project beyond the waiscoat, will give the appearance of the ordinary shirt front
preventing the edges of the front being seen as would be the case if the latter
simply hung loose on the body of the shirt, and also preventing it being shifted to
one side.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a vertical section of a front according to my
invention, made in one piece, and
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a front elevation and sectional plan of a shirt and
bosom made to open at the front.
A is the body of the shirt of any ordinary shirt material, cotton, wool, etc., to the
neck a of which is stitched the top of the front B. The shoulder part of the front
may also be stitched to the body of the shirt or may in some cases be left free to
allow more room for the braces to pass under.
The apron C. extends for some distance on either side of the front which is
stitched to it around the sides, the apron being made in one piece if desired, and the
front fastened on top, or extending only from the sides of the front. The apron
pieces in most cases are left free at the top being fastened only at the sides, in
order to allow the braces to pass under them but they may be fastened also at the
should be
top if desired. When the shirt is made to open at the front a stud
provided at the bottom of front B to prevent it opening at the lower end and the
corners getting crumpled.
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:
An improved front or bosom for shirts and means for attaching the same,
consisting of a front attached to the shirt, at the collar, and having an apron piece
at each side fastened to the body of the shirt, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 15th day of February 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.