Patent ID: 8769712

Claim:
A garment comprising: a yoke shaped to rest securely about a pair of shoulders of a user; a pair of stirrups shaped to receive a pair of feet of the user; and a suit having a top coupled to the yoke and a bottom coupled to the pair of stirrups, the suit shaped and sized to conform to a body of the user with sufficient skin pressure to prevent slippage from a desired distribution on the user, and the suit including one or more panels of an elastic fabric having a substantially different modulus of elasticity for each of a warp and a weft, the elastic fabric oriented within the suit to provide a progressively increasing vertical loading from the top of the suit to the bottom of the suit when worn by the user whereby the vertical loading provides a loading regime that simulates terrestrial gravity when worn by the user in a reduced gravity environment, wherein the warp has a higher modulus of elasticity than the weft, and wherein the weft is oriented substantially circumferentially around a wearer.