Patent ID: 8375468

Claim:
Clothing for the upper half of a body provided with a main body cloth covering the upper half of the body of a wearer; wherein a part of the main body cloth covering an upper side of a back of the wearer comprises a distortion reducing portion adapted to reduce a distortion of the wearer, the distortion reducing portion having an upper side and a lower side, wherein the distortion reducing portion is formed to have a narrower width toward the lower side than the width toward the upper side, the distortion reducing portion being formed with a plurality of strip portions exhibiting a constrictive power stronger than that of the main body cloth; wherein the distortion reducing portion comprises a pair of strip portion sets each having at least three strip portions aligned so as to incline in the same direction; and wherein the pair of strip portion sets are arranged symmetrically while intersecting each other, so as to form at least two surrounded portions surrounded by a plurality of strip portions.