Patent ID: 7435154

Claim:
A brassiere comprising: a pair of wings forming a back of the brassiere and having end regions; a brassiere front having cups and connected to the wings; and respective mating fasteners on the end regions of the wings and enabling the wings to be detachable connected together to close the back of the brassiere, at least the end region of each of the wings being laminated without stitched seams from two outer layers of an elastic fabric and a substantially inelastic cushion layer sandwiched between the outer layers, said fasteners including at least one male fastener on the end region of one of said wings and at least one female fastener on the end region of the other of said wings, said fasteners being mounted directly on respective confronting faces of the respective end regions and each having a pair of members fused together through the respective end region and sandwiching the respective end region between them.