Improvements in Dresses, Petticoats, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1899-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1899
CUMILIE DI MULTICATION.
Improvements in Dresses, Petticoats, and the like.
I, ROBERT REDELE, of 10, Rue des Douze Apôtres, Bruxelles, Belgium, Mer-
chant, 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: -
The subject of the present invention is an arrangement applicable to petticoats
or dresses of all descriptions which admit of these petticoats or dresses being
expanded to any desired extent.
In the annexed drawing which is given by way of example:
Fig. 1, represents the interior face or surface of a portion of a dress binding
or lower skirt edge arranged in accordance with the principles of the invention.
Fig. 2 is a view of the exterior face of the same.
Fig. 3, is a part view of the interior face or surface of a dress binding or lower
skirt edge provided with a modification of the above mentioned arrangement.
Fig. 4, is a view of the exterior face of the same.
The invention consists of the arrangement, under the dressbinding or lower
skirt edge, of the petticoat or dress, that is to say, inside any material arranged for
the protection of the lower portion of petticoats or dresses, of a band or hoop of
steel. This band or hoop may be sewn to the dressbinding or lower skirt edge
by means of thread, or it may be secured thereto by means of eyelets, rivets, or by
any other suitable or appropriate means.
In Figs. 1 and 2, of the drawing annexed the band or hoop is represented as
sewn under the dress binding or lower skirt edge; a is the dressbinding or lower
skirt edge, bis the steel band or hoop, and e is the thread.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the steel band of hoop is shown fixed in place upon
the dressbinding or lower skirt edge by means of eyelets or by rivets d.
The essentially advantageous feature of the invention is the arrangement
of the dressbinding or lower skirt edge in such a manner that it will impart to a
petticoat or to a dress all the expansiveness that may be desired, whilst at the
same time serving the purpose for which the said dress binding or lower skirt
edge is provided, which is to protect the lower portion or edge of the petticoat
or dress.
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:-
1. An arrangement applicable to petticoats and to dresses of all descriptions,
admitting of all the desired expansiveness being given to the said petticoats and
dresses consisting of arranging beneath the dress binding or lower skirt edge or
any other material intended to serve as a protection to the bottom of these clothes.
a band or hoop of steel which is sewn thereto, or fixed by means of eyelets or rivets,
or in any other suitable manner, as described and illustrated.
2. In the arrangement claimed in the first claim the arrangement beneath a
dress binding or lower skirt edge a, of a band or hoop of steel b, sewn to the said
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page_text: dress binding or lower skirt edge by means of a thread c, as described and illus-
trated.
3. In the arrangement claimed in the first claim the provision under the dress
binding or lower skirt edge a, of a band or hoop of steel b, fixed to the said dress
binding or lower skirt edge by means of eyelets or rivets, substantially as herein-
above described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1899.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.