Patent ID: 8250670

Claim:
A garment including: an upper garment part configured to be worn on an upper half of a wearer's body, the upper garment part having a circumference and a body fabric portion comprising an inner fabric layer and an outer fabric layer, wherein a first plurality of through-holes and a second plurality of through-holes each respectively extend in a substantially horizontal direction between the inner and outer fabric layers from a waist section to a chest section, the first plurality of through-holes being disposed in parallel at least in a left side portion of the upper garment part, the second plurality of through-holes being disposed in parallel at least in a right side portion of the upper garment part, and the first plurality of through-holes are not connected to the second plurality of through-holes, a first plurality of elastic cords respectively extending through the first plurality of through-holes, and a second plurality of elastic cords respectively extending through the second plurality of through-holes, wherein each of the first and second elastic cords: (i) extends around only a portion of the upper garment part, (ii) has two ends in a longitudinal direction thereof, which ends are not connected to each other, (iii) has two fastener portions secured to the body fabric portion at two respective locations in the longitudinal direction thereof and (iv) is formed so that a free length between the two fastener portions is adjustable independently of the other elastic cords, wherein one of the fastener portions of each elastic cord is a stationary fastener portion comprising one end of the elastic cord immovably fixed to the body fabric portion, the other fastener portion comprises a movable fastener portion that is movable in the longitudinal direction of the elastic cords and a stationary fastener component immovably fixed to the body fabric portion, the movable fastener portion being detachably engageable with the stationary fastener component at at least two different locations in the longitudinal direction of the respective elastic cord, and the entire circumference of the upper garment part is adjustable to different circumferential lengths from the waist section to the chest section.