An Improved Ladies' Cycling 'Skirt or Habit.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ladies' Cycling 'Skirt or Habit.
WILLIAM PARKER BROUGH "Springfield" Kettering in the County of
Northampton, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
My invention refers to a ladies' skirt or habit especially adapted for bicycle-
riding and consists first of a shaped apron which completely surrounds the wearer
when standing the two edges hanging together and having the appeara ice of an
ordinary skirt. These edges are joined by hooks or similar means from the waist
band downwards for a few inches.
A second piece of material is joined on the inside and to either side of this
apron some little distance from the back edge & forms with the front of the apron
a narrow skirt. The rest of the apron i.e. from where this second piece joins the
apron to the back edge forms two Haps or wings which hang down on either side
of the bicycle and these flaps or wings being joined near the waist band partly
conceal the saddle.
These wings could be attached to a skirt.
A material is sometimes used inside the skirt to obviate the friction at the
knees.
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An Improved Ladies' Cycling Skirt or Habit.
I, WILLIAM PARKER BROUGH, of Springfield, Kettering, in the County of
Northampton, Engineer, 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 application relates to an improved cycling skirt, by means of which ladies
can secure the appearance and fit of a skirt of ordinary cut, not liable to attract
attention when the wearer is dismounted, and hanging better and more evenly, thus
giving greatly increased comfort and freedom of motion when the wearer is
mounted.
In order more clearly to set forth the construction of my improved skirt I will
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 shews an elevation of the skirt.
Figure 2 shews the position of the same when the wearer is mounted on a
bicycle.
Figure 3 shews a diagram of a supposed section below the line 3-3 Figure 1.
The front of the skirt is of usual pattern; the sides are prolonged backwards

page_text: to form flaps, joined to the waist at the top preferably as shewn in the drawing,
and which when the wearer is mounted depend over the hind wheel in a similar
manner to that shown in Figure 2 of the drawing. The skirt proper is preferably,
but not necessarily made somewhat narrower than the ordinary pattern but not too
narrow to give free play to the limbs of the wearer.
Referring to the diagram Figure 3, the skirt proper is indicated by the letter A,
the flaps by the letter B. Elastic straps C suitably attached to the sides of the
skirt may be adapted to be secured to the ankles of the wearer, but when the
skirt is lined at the knees with a smooth lining such as silk or mohair, these
straps C may be dispensed with. The flaps are preferably constructed in one
piece with the front of the skirt, the back piece being inserted. The flaps have
folded-over ends and are cut so as to hang straight down over the wheel.
The wearer of this skirt, when mounted, has every advantage of the ordinary
closed skirt with much increased comfort in the absence of folds at the back, and
in the convenient draping of the garment over the hind wheel of the bicycle.
The waistband and placket hole of the skirt are preferably made in the manner
shown in the drawing. The skirt may obviously be made of cloth or any other
suitable material for the purpose in view.
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. In cycling skirts for ladies the provision of flaps at the back of the skirt,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. The combination of parts forming the improved cycling skirt substantially as
described and with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th ton of nano
1900
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.