Patent ID: 7757308

Claim:
A clothing article comprising: a body; a sleevelike waistband provided circumferentially along an upper end of the body, and split by overlapping ends having circumferentially opposing mouths, wherein the mouth in one end opens along the waistband latterly, at about the distance from the tip of the one end by which the one end overlaps the other end; an elastic band encapsulated in the waistband and elastically expandable and contractible circumferentially along the waist, the elastic band having opposing ends passing out of the opposing mouths in the waistband and coupled by coupling means for adjusting the length of the elastic band, the coupling means being composed of a meshwork row formed on each of the opposing ends of the elastic band, and a cord removably interlaced through the opposing meshwork rows; an unfastenable locking means provided on the overlapping ends of the waistband, for locking the overlapping ends together to cover and hide the elastic band from being exposed from the ends of the waistband; opening/closing portions formed by a split in the body, extending to a common terminal position and continuous with the split in the waistband; and an opening/closing means for closably separating the opening/closing portions away from each other.