Patent ID: 7048606

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a pad for a breast covering garment comprising: providing a fabric sheet having an upper neckline edge, a lower channeling edge and an underarm edge; adhering a foam sheet of compressible material to the fabric sheet; a first portion of the pad that is arranged adjacent and along the upper neckline edge containing only fabric of the fabric sheet, and a remaining second portion of the pad that is arranged between the first portion and the lower channeling edge containing the compressible material of the foam sheet; the method including providing the foam sheet to have a thickest end at locations of the underarm edge and the channeling edge which are spaced away from the neckline edge, and the foam sheet becoming gradually and continuously thinner toward the neckline edge to a location that is near to, but still spaced from the neckline edge where the sheet of foam ends at the first portion of the pad.