Patent ID: 7185370

Claim:
An improved protective garment that is to be worn about a wearer's neck and shoulders, said garment comprising: a central piece of material having top, bottom, right and left side edges and configured so to cover approximately the entire trunk frontal area of said wearer, wherein said right and left side edges having a specified length, a pair of shoulder extensions, each of said shoulder extensions having a specified length and extending proximate each said central piece of material top edge corner, each said shoulder extension configured so as to form a strap that extends over the top portion of one of the shoulders of said wearer, each said shoulder extension terminating in an end edge, wherein the sum of said specified length of either of said central piece side edges and the length of said adjoining shoulder extension being denoted herein as Y, a pair of underarm extensions, each of said underarm extensions extending from one of said central piece of material side bottom corner edges and configured so as to form an underarm strap that extends around the side of the trunk of a wearer and under one of the arms of said wearer, each said underarm extensions terminating in an end edge, wherein each of said shoulder extension end edges being fastened to the underarm extension that extends from the same side of said material at a point that is proximate said underarm end edge so as to form an armpit for each of the arms of said wearer, wherein the length of each of said underarm extensions from the point of attachment with said central piece to the point of attachment with said shoulder extension end edge being of a specified value, denoted as X, wherein in order to provide said garment with permanent three-dimensional shape and desired fitting characteristics, the ratio of said lengths, X/Y, is chosen to have a value less than one and as dictated by the shape of the torso of said wearer, a pair of fastening means, with one of said means being attached proximate to one of each said underarm extension end edges, and wherein said shoulder and underarm extensions being further configured so as to allow said fastening means to be fastened at a location that is situated approximately in the middle of the back of said wearer.