Patent ID: 7143613

Claim:
Knitwear comprising a body and sleeves, characterized by: that one of front and back bodies of the body has armhole parts and shoulder-line parts extending along one's shoulder line formed when wearing the knitwear, and the other body has slant-line parts extending obliquely from the neckline to side parts of the body, that the front body and the back body are knitted in tubular form in a seamless manner, that the sleeves are knitted in tubular form in a seamless manner, that the sleeves are joined to the armhole parts, the shoulder-line parts, slant-line parts of the front and back bodies in a seamless manner, so that a neckline is formed by a part of the sleeves, that as to the number of courses of front and back bodies knitted in the course of joining of the sleeves to the armhole parts of the bodies, the number of courses of the body having the slant-line parts knitted is decreased below the number of courses of the body having the shoulder-line parts knitted, that as to the number of courses of front and back bodies knitted in the course of joining of the sleeves to the shoulder-line parts of the bodies, the number of courses of the body having the slant-line parts knitted is increased over the number of courses of the body having the shoulder-line parts knitted, and that while parts of the sleeves to be joined to the shoulder-line parts are knitted with the number of courses knitted that can prevent shrink of the parts of the sleeves when joined to the shoulder-line parts, the parts of the sleeves and the shoulder-line parts are joined together, and that a ratio of the number of courses for the sleeves and the body having the slant-line parts to be joined together to the number of courses for the sleeves and the body having the slant-line parts to be knitted is set so that when the sleeves and the body having the slant-line parts are joined together to match with each other between the starting locations and the ending locations for joining them together, no slack is produced in the joining parts of the sleeves and the body having the slant-line part, so that the sleeves and the body are joined together in such a ratio.