Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 18th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 22nd June, 1895
I, ISABEL KEITH YOUNG, of No. 57 Haverstock Hill, London, N.W.
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The fastening is applicable mainly for holding up the skirt of a ladies dress to a
waistband.
The fastening consists of a metal plate having two vertical slots cut through it at
a distance apart leaving a vertical central bar between the two slots so that a band
or ribbon can be slipped through the slots with the bar at the back and the
remainder of the plate at the front of the band. Onto the back of the bar
The hooks
and the portions of the plate on each side of it are fixed hooks.
on the two side portions of the plate are made to pass through the band or
ribbon.
All the hooks are made to hook on to the upper part of the skirt at the back or
into ordinary metal eyes fixed thereon and the band to receive them is then secured
around the waist of the wearer.
The entire fastening may be stamped out from one metal plate and be ornamented
by perforation and embossing or may be otherwise formed so long as a band or ribbon
can be threaded through it and so long as it carries hooks at the back for hooking
onto the skirt of a dress or into metal eye sewn thereon as above described.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1894.
ISABEL K. YOUNG.
Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
I, ISABEL KEITH YOUNG, of No. 57 Haverstock Hill, London, N.W.,
Gentlewoman, 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 fastening is applicable mainly for holding up the skirt of a ladies dress to
a waistband and is formed in such a way that the band may be threaded through it
so that it can be slipped along the band to any desired point and is also formed in
such a way that the skirt band at the upper part of a skirt may be hooked on to or
otherwise attached to it.
The drawings annexed shew examples of fastenings constructed according to my
invention.
Figures 1, 14, 13, shew a face view, back view and edge view of one form of the
fastening. A is a portion of a waistband--it is threaded between the front
portion B and a bar at the back. D D are hooks on the back of the portion B
and bar C-on to these the skirt band can be hooked either by this band being
itself caught by the points of the hooks or eyes may be sewn on to the band for
the hooks to catch in. The front portion B may be formed mainly of sheet metal
ornamented by perforation and embossing to any pattern desired.

page_text: Figures, 2, 24, 2", shew similar views of another form of the fastening. This form
may if desired be stamped out from one piece of sheet metal-it has two bars C at
the back each having a small pointed tongue C' inclining out from it by which the
skirt band can be caught-the bars at their upper and lower ends are bent over so
that they pass around the upper and lower edges of the waistband and at the frout
of the band are connected to one another by the front portions B which may be of
any desired pattern.
Figures 3, 3, 3", shew another form-with this form the skirt band may either
be caught by the points C³or hooks secured to this band may be made to hook over
the bar C which connects these two points.
Figures 4, 4, 4", shew a similar form with the two parts which are bent over the
upper and lower edges of the band made alike so that it is immaterial which way up
the fastening is slipped on to the band.
Another form is shewn at Figures 5, 5, 5".
In all these examples the front portion B may be cut or stamped to any pattern
desired.
Having now particularly described and 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. A dress fastener, applicable for holding up the skirt of a ladies dress to n
waist band, so formed that the band may be threaded through it and that it can be
slipped along the band to any desired point and have the upper part of a skirt
hooked on to or otherwise held by it at the back.
2. The construction of dress fasteners applicable for holding up the skirt of n
ladies dress to a waistband substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 11th day of April 1895.
ISABEL KEITH YOUNG.