Patent ID: 7845020

Claim:
An article of clothing or decorative article, at least one portion of which is made of chain mail fabric made of interweaved metal rings, said chain mail portion being associated with at least one resilient member arranged so as to tighten said chain mail fabric on a part of a user's body and/or to draw and tension a portion of said chain mail fabric so as to absorb a local excess of material, wherein at least one of said resilient members is a flat spring ( 4 , 4 ′, 4 ″, 4 ′″) of pin type, consisting of a juxtaposition of elongated wire arms ( 5 , 5 ′, 5 ″, 5 ′″) connected in pairs by an elastic joint ( 6 , 6 ′, 6 ″, 6 ′″), said elastic joint connecting two of said juxtaposed wire arms having an articulation axis perpendicular to a plane containing said two juxtaposed wire arms and said joint includes a loop of material having one or more 360° turns.