Device for Ensuring Tight Fit on the Hips of Trousers, Pants, Petticoats, or other Garments Without Connection by Buttons, Clasps, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 4th Oct., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Ensuring Tight Fit on the Hips of Trousers, Pants,
Petticoats, or other Garments Without Connection by Buttons,
Clasps, and the like.
I, GOTTLIEB BENGER of Böblinger Strasse No. 70, Stuttgart, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 :-
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The object of this invention is to ensure tight fit, without the use of buttons,
clasps and the like, of such garments and under wear, for which the hips can serve as
supports. The bodily circumference of almost any person being smaller at the waist,
than about the hips, the latter, that is to say the bodily surface contiguous thereto, is
in this invention caused to so bear the garments of said class, that by the peculiar
shape of the garments an automatical fit on the hips is effected when the garments
are put on, without any necessity of using buttons, clasps, bands or such like for
establishing proper connection.
Referring to the accompanying drawing in which like letters designate like or
analogous parts
Figs. 1 to 4 illustrate the application of the improved hip closing to trousers and
drawers, and
Figs. 5 and 6 show the same as applied to women's skirts and petticoats respectively.
Said closing is effected by means of flaps A and B overlapping each other, the
lower edges a² and 62 of which, extending from the shank point to the hip, are sewn
to the trousers or other garment, while the upper free edges a' and 6' extend from
the narrower waist opening to the hips. These flaps A and B may be provided on the
front as well as the rear side or on both sides of trousers. Or the flaps may cominence
With skirts or
on one side and, passing around the hips, terminate on the other side.
petticoats the flaps A and B, with regard to the difference of outline between the
male and female form, may also be provided on the right or left side or on both sides.
In the device shown by Fig. 1. the two flaps A and B are represented as placed on
the front side of the trousers and fitted with slits s and s¹. When the trousers are
being put on, the slip opening, owing to the free edges a¹ and b¹, can be stretched
almost to the circumference of the hips. As soon howover as the trousers are drawn
over the hips, the waist band is drawn towards the hips through the loose edges a¹
and 61 and thereby the garment is caused to fit tightly, its upper part being placed
into close contact with the body and easily following any movement thereof without
the least inconvenience to the wearer. Consequently any garments having the improved
device applied thereto fit well and prove particularly easy in use.
Fig. illustrates the flaps as provided on the rear side and Fig. 3 as employed on
the rear and front side while in the arrangement shown in Fig. 4 the flaps A and B
begin on the front side and, passing about the hips, terminate in the rear. Moreover
no extra slit in the flaps is provided in the arrangement Figs. 3 and 4 (front side),
the slits s and stare formed by the lower portion of the lower flap edges a² and 62
being not sewn fast. In order to allow a pair of trousers to be used for different
widths of waist, any suitable adjusting device for the width of trousers may be provided
on the rear side of the flap arrangement as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.
It goes without saying that a great number of differently shaped flap arrangements
may be employed, according to the size required for the upper slip opening.
Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 show the application to the female form, of the flaps in front and
behind, and on the right and left sides respectively, while such arrangement would
hardly be applicable to trousers and pants.
The various figures of the drawing are intended to merely show the application of
the improved flap arrangement in general.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In garments which by their nature rest on the hips such as trousers, pants, ladies'
skirts, petticoats and the like, the application of flaps A and B with loose upper
edges a¹ and and lower edges a² and b² sewn fast, whereby the garments after being
put on are automatically given a closing about the hips and any mechanical connection
of the flaps hy buttons clasps, laces and the like is dispensed with, substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 15th day of August 1890.
GOTTLIEB BENGER.
By Huelser & Co.,
His Agents.