Patent ID: 6859941

Claim:
A high visibility safety garment for wearing by an individual exposed to hazardous vehicular traffic, said garment constructed to comply with retroreflection standards of an acknowledged and recognized safety garment standard specifying a minimum coefficient of retroreflectivity R min for a horizontal stripe on a safety garment intended for encircling the torso of an individual wearing the safety garment, comprising: a torso covering safety garment base formed at least partially of a fluorescent colored background material; a horizontal high visibility retroreflective safety stripe attached to and encircling the base so as to encircle the torso of a garment wearer; said stripe having a plurality of disconnected but closely spaced stripe segments separated by stripe spaces to approximate a continuous stripe in appearance; said stripe segments formed of a retroreflective material having a coefficient of retroreflection R A ; said stripe segments and stripe spaces occupying an area A stripe , and said stripe segments occupying an area A segment that is a sufficient percentage of the area A stripe to satisfy the relationship (A segment /A stripe )×R A ≧R min .