Patent ID: 8181274

Claim:
A method of patterning and manipulating a shirt-shaped garment to selectively form a mouth, the shirt-shaped garment having a chest section and two long sleeves attached thereto, each long sleeve extending downwardly in a first position along a substantially vertical axis adjacent a side of the chest section and having a shoulder portion and a lower, cuff portion spaced therefrom along said vertical axis with an elbow portion therebetween, said method including the steps of: (a) providing an upper mouth pattern on an outside section of one of the long sleeves, said upper mouth pattern extending along the vertical axis of said one long sleeve in said first position and facing substantially outwardly of the chest section, (b) providing a lower mouth pattern on an outside section of the second long sleeve, said lower mouth pattern extending along the vertical axis of said second long sleeve in said first position and facing substantially outwardly of the chest section, said lower mouth pattern on the second long sleeve being complementary to the upper mouth pattern on the one long sleeve, and (c) crossing the long sleeves laterally in front of the chest section in a second position with the long sleeves extending substantially side to side laterally across the chest section and with the cuff portion of each long sleeve adjacent the shoulder portion of the other long sleeve with the elbow sections substantially adjacent one another, and with the upper and lower complementary mouth patterns aligned to form a mouth.