Patent ID: 7305716

Claim:
A medical gown comprising: a gown member having a torso section, a pair of sleeve sections and a neck opening at an upper end, each of said sleeve sections including an elongated separable seam extending from the neck opening to a distal end of the sleeve, each seam including a first side and a second side, said torso section including a front surface and a separable rear surface, said rear surface having a smaller flap and an overlapping larger flap that extends around a wearer's side to partially overlay the front surface of the torso section, said larger flap having a color-coded snap fastener thereon that selectively engages any one of a plurality of mating color-coded snap fasteners on the front surface of the torso section allowing the size of the garment to be varied, and said larger flap further including a downwardly contoured upper edge with a color-coded snap fastener adjacent thereto that mates with a similarly colored snap on the smaller flap; a plurality of color-coded fasteners adjacent the first side and the second side of each seam allowing said fasteners to be quickly and easily matched with a mating fastener according to color, wherein said fasteners are snaps including a first male snap on the first side of the seam and a second mating female snap on the second side of the seam, said male snap having a discrete color, said female snap having a discrete color that is identical to that of said male snap allowing a user to quickly and accurately mate said fasteners.