An Improved Cycling and Walking Skirt.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1898 -Accepted, 18th June, 1898
Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cycling and Walking Skirt.
We, EDWIN SLATTER, Outfitter, 6, Carlton Street, Nottingham, GEORGE SLATTER,
6, Carlton Street, Outfitter, Nottingham, and GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON,
Foreman Tailor, 6, Carlton Street, Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The skirt is cut as an ordinary walking skirt and is divided at the back or
formed with an opening extending from the waistband to the bottom.
On the inner side of the back of the skirt is an inner piece hereinafter called a
seat-piece which extends from the waistband to the bottom and from one side of
the skirt to the other. This seat piece is secured at the waistband and also down
the sides of the skirt.
In Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is shown one half of the seat piece
which may be formed in two parts such as shown, the edge A 13 being secured to
the corresponding edge of the other half which is of precisely the same form.
The two edges C G of the upper part of each half are also connected and the
lower part comprised of the two parts A B C D of each half is pleated in preferably
the same manner as is shown in Fig. 3.
The outer edge E F of the complete seating piece are secured to the sides of the
skirt.
If preferred the seating piece may be formed of three parts, that is two outer
parts of the same shape as shown in Fig. 2 and a central pleated part such as that
shown in Fig. 3.
In this case the two corresponding edges G C of the outer parts are connected
and the edges C B (Fig. 2) are connected to the sides C D of the pleated part shown
in Fig. 3.
Dated this 20th day of December 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Cycling and Walking Skirt.
We, EDWIN SLATTER, Outfitter, GEORGE SLATTER, Outfitter, and GEORGE
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Foreman Tailor, all of 6, Carlton Street, in the City of
Nottingham, 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:--
Our invention relates to an improved cycling and walking skirt arranged to

page_text: give the advantages of knicker bockers when the wearer seated on a cycle and
the appearance of an ordinary walking skirt when dismounted.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which
Fig. 1. is a view showing the shape of one half of the outer skirt before it is
made up.
Fig. 2. is a view showing the shape of the whole of the seating piece before
it is made up.
Fig. 3. is a view showing the pleated part of the seating piece which may be
formed independently of instead of integrally with the seating piece as shown in
Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. is a view showing the back of a complete finished skirt, constructed
according to our invention.
Each half of the outer skirt A B D C (see Fig. 1) is cut to the shape shown and
may be formed of one two or more pieces, but is preferably formed of three
pieces A² B C² connected together by seams A¹ B¹ and CD as shown, the part A³
forming one half of the front of the outer skirt, the part B one side, and the
part Cone half of the back.
The edge or selvedge A B is connected by a seam to the corresponding edge of
the other half of the skirt at the front, whilst the edge or selvedge C D meets the
corresponding edge or selvedge of the other half at the back as shown in Fig. 4
but is not connected to it, and the outer skirt is thus provided with an opening at
the back extending from the waistband to the bottom.
The upper edge or selvedge A C is pleated or gathered into the waistband S (see
Fig. 4,) according to taste or fashion.
The seating piece H I J K L M N shown in Fig. 2 may be formed of one piece
cut to the shape shown, or of two corresponding halves or parts H¹ I connected
together along the seam J¹ M¹. The edge or selvedge from I to J is connected to
the corresponding edge or selvedge J K whilst the lower part of the seating piece
which is enclosed between the dotted lines O P and Q K is folded or pleated in
preferably the same or a similar manner to the part shown in Fig. 3.
The outer edge or selvedge H N of the complete seating piece is secured to the
inner and say left hand side of the outer skirt preferably at or near the seam C' D'
on that side, whilst the outer edge L M is secured to the corresponding seam on
the opposite side.
The upper edge or selvedge H I K L is secured into the band S with the upper
selvedge of the parts C of the outer skirt.
If preferred the part of the seating piece enclosed by the dotted lines O P and
QR (see Fig. 2.) which is pleated in the making up, may be formed independently
of the parts H¹ I' and be inserted between the two.
In this case the seating piece is formed of three pieces, that is, two outer parts
and a central pleated part T shown in Fig. 3. The parts H¹ I¹ of the seating
pieces are cut along the dotted lines O P and Q R respectively and the piece I
inserted between the edges of the said parts.
In order to enable the wearer to put the skirt on and take it off, a placket-hole
or opening is formed at the side in the usual manner, preferably at the seam A¹B¹
(see Fig. 1).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In a cycling skirt the combination with an outer skirt provided with an
opening at the back of an inner seating piece such as H I¹ connected to the sides
and waistband of the outer skirt substantially as described.
2. In a cycling skirt the combination with an outer skirt provided with an
opening at the back of an inner seating piece such as H¹ I¹ provided with a full

page_text: or pleated part such as T and connected to the sides and waistband of the outer
skirt substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete cycling
skirt substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
1000
EDWIN SLATTER.
GEORGE SLATTER.
GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.
EDWIN SLATTER.
GEORGE SLATTER.
GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.