Patent ID: 8347418

Claim:
Shorts comprising: an approximately inverted triangular front cover and an approximately inverted triangular back cover connected together at tops thereof for covering a lower abdomen, crotch and buttocks of a wearer while being worn, the front cover and the back cover having a string throughpassage formed in upper hems thereof, respectively, and a width of the string throughpassage being gradually narrowed from opposing ends of the string throughpassage and toward the center of the string throughpassage; and a ring-shaped string inserted into the string throughpassages formed in the upper hems of the front and back covers in a freely slidable manner, both ends of the upper hems of the front and back covers being configured to be slidable along the string toward each other, thereby to change configuration of the front and back covers to a narrow-width configuration to cover the lower abdomen, the crotch and the buttocks; and first, second, third and fourth tie-strings, the first tie-string being connected to a left end of the upper hem of the front cover, the second tie-string being connected to a right end of the upper hem of the front cover, the third tie-string being connected to a left end of the upper hem of the back cover, and the fourth tie-string being connected to a right end of the upper hem of the back cover whereby, when the wearer wears the shorts and the configuration of the front and back covers is changed to the narrow-width configuration, left and right side segments of the ring-shaped string are retained at left and right sides of a pelvis of the wearer and front and back segments of the ring-shaped string are changed to be approximately V shape at a front and back of the wearer.