Patent ID: 7231671

Claim:
Adjustable leg width trousers configured to be worn over the lower part of a human body including the legs and a portion of the torso, comprising: (a) a waistband; (b) a trunk section designed to cover a portion of the torso and being connected to the waistband; (c) a pair of leg sections including a right leg section and a left leg section with each leg section having; (1) a foot end having a foot end diameter; (2) a crotch end having a crotch end diameter wherein the crotch end of each leg section is connected to the trunk section; and (3) a lower leg section starting approximately midway between the foot end and the crotch end and extending to the foot end, having; (i) a width adjustment slot formed in the lower leg section having at least a first slot edge extending from the foot end toward the crotch end and terminating at a slot vertex and a second slot edge extending from the foot end toward the crotch end and terminating at the slot vertex, thereby establishing a diameter of each leg section at the point of the slot vertex referred to as the vertex diameter; (ii) a width adjusting insert having an insert perimeter and a substantially triangular insert shape having a base edge, a first insert edge, and a second insert edge, wherein the width adjusting insert does not completely fill the area between the first slot edges and the second slot edges from the foot end of each leg section to the slot vertex of each leg section; and (iii) at least one joining device for releasably attaching the width adjusting insert to the lower leg section thereby establishing the foot end diameter and separating the first slot edge and the second slot edge at the foot end by a predetermined slot opening distance while the vertex diameter remains unchanged, and providing for the releasable attachment of the first slot edge to the second slot edge in the absence of the width adjusting insert.