Year: 1885

page_text: I ARTHUR LINNEY of 99 Regent Street in the County of Middlesex, Hosier do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improvement in mens' shirts particularly flannel
shirts worn by equestrians and it has for its object to retain the hind skirt in
position and prevent it becoming gathered up the back of the wearer as the skirts
of shirts as now made are liable to do.
The invention consists in providing the hind skirt or tail with short leg pieces
in the form of tabs or bands adapted to encircle the thighs of the wearer and so
retain the skirt in place, the tabs or bands being secured by buttons or other
fastening, after being passed between and around the legs of the wearer.
The invention further consists in cutting the hind skirt with a central vertical
seam and on the lines of the seat portion of riding breeches and separate from the
body portion of the shirt and in uniting it thereto by a cross band at the waist.
A. LINNEY.
By A. M. & Wm Clark.
I, ARTHUR LINNEY, of 99, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Hosier,
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:
My invention consists of improvements in shirts, and its object is to prevent
the tail or skirt working up the back of the wearer as those now worn are apt to
do, especially when the body is subjected to extra exertion as in riding, boating,
Prins II

page_text: cycling, cricketing &c. It is however, to be understood that my invention is
applicable to all and every kind of shirt.
To carry my invention into practical effect, the back of the shirt is made up of
two principal parts which are joined together by a band across the waist. The
upper part is cut and fitted into the shoulders in the ordinary way, while the lower
part is cut to fit the wearer after the style of the seat of riding breeches. Further-
more, the tail part is cut with a central seam, called the seat seam, on which
fullness or room is allowed for the seat, and is also provided with two tabs which
are sewn one on each side of the inside extremity so that they pass under the
crutch and round the legs of the wearer and fasten by buttons or other fastening
on the outside extremity of the tail.
My invention can be thoroughly understood and carried into practical effect by
referring to the accompanying drawings, like letters of reference denoting
corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a back view of my improved shirt in which A is the waist-band
uniting the tail to the back, B, B the seat seam on which fullness is allowed
according to size, C, C the inside extremities of the tail to which the tabs are sewn,
and D, D the outside extremities of the tail to which the tabs are fastened by
buttons or otherwise after being passed between and around the legs of the
wearer.
Fig. 2, is a front view of the same shewing the tabs E, E sewn at C, C and
fastened at D, D.
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. The manufacture of shirts cut with a seat seam on which fullness is allowed
after the style of riding breeches seats, fastened to the upper part of the back by a
band across the waist substantially as described and illustrated;
2. The manufacture of shirts cut with tab pieces to fasten round the legs of the
wearer substantially as described;
3. The manufacture of shirts in which the back is made up of two principal
parts, the upper part being joined to the lower by a band across the waist;
And 4. The manufacture of shirts cut with a seat seam, having tab pieces at the
bottom of the tail to fasten round the legs of the wearer, and joined at the waist
by a band across into which the upper part of the back is fulled in substantially as
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 11th day of June 1886.