Patent ID: 7637884

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: (a) a shirt including a permanent tubular portion and (b) two expandable and recoverable frameworks, (c) wherein (i) each said framework is attached to a respective sleeve of said shirt and defines a plurality of openings extending completely therethrough to expose portions of said respective sleeve underneath said framework that otherwise would be covered by said framework, (ii) each said framework is flexible, elastically stretchable and comprises an integrally molded network of interconnected, elastomeric segments, (iii) a first subset of the interconnected, elastomeric segments of each said framework define a perimeter of that respective framework, (iv) a second subset of the interconnected, elastomeric segments of each said framework located within the perimeter of that respective framework bound and define a plurality of permanent openings in that respective framework, none of the interconnected, elastomeric segments of the first subset of each framework being part of the second subset of that respective framework, (v) each said framework is capable of lying generally flat when not attached to a respective sleeve of said shirt, and (vii) each said framework does not extend beyond said shirt.