Device for an Improvement in Male Attire.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Device for an Improvement in Male Attire.
I, JAMES EDWARD SURRIDGE, of The Gables, Barcombe, near Lewes, in the
County of Sussex, Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
That for the greater convenience of athletes and those engaged in sports,
games, gymnastic and athletic or other exercises I propose to substitute in the
place of braces and belts as usually worn the following device for keeping the
trousers and shirt in their proper place while at the same time allowing greater
freedom of action to the limbs; I place on the shirt around the waist a certain
number of loops and I make in the waist of the trousers a corresponding number
of slits or openings, I then bring the loops attached to the shirt through the
slits or openings in the trousers, and then pass through the loops the belt or
scarf. By this device it is impossible for the trousers to slip below a certain
point or for the shirt to get out of position as both garments are kept in their
respective positions by the belt or scarf; the essence of my invention being the
placing of loops around the waist of the shirt and a corresponding number of
slits or openings in the waist of the trousers.
Dated this Cith dov of Anvil 1899
A Device for an Improvement in Male Attire.
I, JAMES EDWARD SURRIDGE, of The Gables, Barcombe, near Lewes, in the
County of Sussex, Clerk in Holy Orders, 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:-
For the greater convenience of athletes, and those engaged in sports, games
and athletic or other exercises I propose to substitute in the place of braces and
belts as usually worn the following device for keeping the trousers and shirt
in their proper places upon the wearer while at the same allowing greater
freedom of action to the limbs. The annexed drawing shows a back view of two
garments made according to the invention. I place on the shirt A around the
waist a certain number of loops a for example three, and I make in the waist
of the trousers B a corresponding number of slits or openings b in places corre-
sponding to the loops respectively. When these garments are being worn the
loops attached to the shirt are brought through the slits or openings 6 in the

page_text: trousers and there is passed through the loops a a belt or scarf c lying outside
the trousers as illustrated.
By this device it is impossible for the trousers to slip below a certain point
or for the shirt to get out of position, as both garments are kept in their respec-
tive positions by the belt or scarf; the essence of my invention being the plac-
ing of loops by stitching buttoning or otherwise around the waist of the shirt
and corresponding slits or openings in the waist of the trousers.
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:
Improvements in male attire, comprising for instance trousers and shirt or
the like the former having at or about the waist thereof a suitable number of
slits or openings and the latter a corresponding number of loops to pass through
said openings, the two said garments being kept in position by the passage of a
belt or the like through said loops substantially as illustrated and described.
Dated this 6th day of July 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.