Patent ID: 7793359

Claim:
A shirttail retainer for a shirt worn with pants, a. wherein said shirt includes front and rear panels, each said panel having an upper portion, an opposite shirttail portion and a waist portion between said upper and shirttail portions, said waist portion having an outward facing surface, and b. said pants include a waistband at the top with a radially inward facing surface adapted to contact said shirt waist portion when it is worn within said pants waistband, said shirttail retainer comprising: i. a friction strip having a substantially flat contact surface fixed to and extending around at least part of said inward facing surface of said pants waistband, and ii. a plurality of friction elements, each having a substantially flat contact surface circumferentially spaced around and fixed to said outward facing surface of said shirttail portion of said shirt at an elevation below the portion of the shirt that engages the waist portion of the pants, each of said friction elements comprising an elongated strip with its elongated lengthwise dimension extending in a generally top-to-bottom direction, said friction elements on said shirt, when pressed into contact with said friction strip on said pants, as a result of said pants waistband being urged radially inward against said waist portion of said shirt, establishing a frictional force that resists movement of said shirt waist portion upward relative to said pants waistband, said friction elements respectively on said shirt and on said waistband, when not in mutual pressure contact, being free of said frictional force that resists said relative movement between them when they are in pressure contact.