Improvements in Ladies' Riding Habits.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Riding Habits.
I, DANIEL FAUST, Master Tailor of 83 Dorotheenstrasse Berlin in the Kingdom of
Prussia and German Empire do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The invention hereinafter described relates to a riding habit or costume for ladies
which will enable a lady to ride astride a horse without in any way interfering with
decorum, propriety or decency. The invention is illustrated on the accompanying
drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a general view of a lady wearing my improved riding habit part of which
is raised.
Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are various views of the two parts of the riding habit i.e. the
trousers and the skirt.
The trousers shown in Figs. 1 to 3 resemble men's trousers in their outward
appearance, but they differ from the latter by being furnished with a flap a (Figs. 2
and 3) arranged in the seat of the garment, for use in cases of necessity and pro-
vided on its three sides with button holes, the two vertical sides of the flap being
buttoned to the vertical sides of the trousers while the horizontal side of the flap is
buttoned to the waist band or belt b by means of which the trousers are fastened to
the body. The trousers may be made either of cloth with or without rider's trimming,
or entirely of leather. The skirt which forms the other part of the habit is fixed over
the trousers and consists of two exactly similar side pieces (Figs. 4 and 5) which are
buttoned together in front and at the back. For this purpose each side piece has on
its vertical edge a row of buttons to fasten it to the button holes of the other side
piece, and on the other side a row of button holes which are attached to the buttons
of the other side piece. Thus the riding habit can be fastened to the body of the
rider, and according as the lady wishes to ride or to walk the skirt is buttoned only to
the junction Fig. 1 or down to the lower end Fig. 4. When riding the side pieces
depending on the right and on the left hand sides are held up by means of india
rubber straps c attached to a corresponding button fixed to the lower end of a side
piece and to a button hole formed in the opposite side, the side pieces being drawn
together in the manner shewn in Fig. 5 so that the lady may pass her legs through
the spaces formed in the said side pieces between the india rubber strips and the
inner surfaces of the said side pieces, and place the former side piece over her legs
thus fully concealing the trousers. The india rubber strips also prevent the flying of
the skirt when riding.
Having thus 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 :-
A riding habit or costume for the purpose of enabling ladies to ride astride
a horse, characterised by a pair of trousers provided with a movable flap at the back
and of a skirt arranged over the same, fastened in front and at the back and com-
pletely covering the trousers, the side pieces of which skirt are attached down
to their lower end when the lady is walking and only to the junction when the
lady is riding astride, being laid around the trouser legs and firmly fixed thereto by
india rubber strips substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
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Dated this 30th day of July 1890°
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.