Patent ID: 8535776

Claim:
A flexible, breathable, stretchable fabric laminate, comprising a first stretchable fabric layer in the form of a first knit fabric comprising ground yarns and pile yarns forming hook-engageable fiber loops exposed on an outer surface of the fabric laminate, and a technical face at which both portions of ground yarns and portions of pile yarns are present; and a second stretchable fabric layer bonded directly to the first fabric layer by an adhesive that covers less than an entire area of either fabric layer, leaving adhesive-free areas of the laminate, the second fabric layer in the form of a second knit fabric comprising both ground yarns and pile yarns and having a technical face at which both portions of ground yarns and potions of pile yarns are present; wherein at least one of the first and second knit fabrics comprises a circular knit fabric; wherein the ground yarns of the first knit fabric and the ground yarns of the second knit fabric comprise elastomeric yarns; and wherein the first and second fabric layers are bonded together at their technical faces, such that the adhesive is in contact with both pile yarns and elastomeric ground yarns of each knit fabric.