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Inactive Publication Date: 2015-01-08
GRACE & WILDE
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This patent describes a garment made from stretchable fabrics that can comfortably conform to a person's unique shape and curves. The garment uses a double face fabric, which eliminates the need for a separate gusset in the crotch area. The inner face of the fabric is made of cotton that provides softness, comfort, and moisture-management, while the outer face provides the desired look. The double face fabric is also stretchable, which can help with shaping and slimming. Overall, this invention allows for greater comfort, fit, and a quick shape recovery for the person wearing the garment.

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Conventional garments may have bodice cups that can be folded to not cover the bra, but the double layer of fabric creates a visible and unsightly bulge that can often roll down the torso, that defeats the shaping and slimming objective of the garment.

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[0038]For purposes of this invention, the following terms are defined below.

[0039]“Shapewear” can include tank tops, thigh slimmers, singlets, body briefs, bodysuits, brassieres or bras, boy shorts, panties, pants, briefs, slips, camisoles, hip slips, skirts, waist shapers, corsets, garter belts, and girdles, or configurations within the knowledge of one skilled in the art. As such, any exemplary types of shapewear shown in the drawings or described herein are not to be considered limiting in the term shapewear.

[0040]“Axial seam” means a seam oriented parallel with an axial plane through the body that divides the right-hand side from the left-hand side.

[0041]A “double faced fabric” is one single fabric that is knitted using at least two different yarns in a specific manner that creates two different fabric faces. For example, the first face of the fabric comprises one type of fiber, and the second face of the fabric comprises another type of fiber. Double faced fabric are used in co...

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Abstract

A shapewear garment made from a double face fabric having an inner face that comprises a cotton layer that does not have a gusset in the crotch portion of the garment. A shapewear garment having adjustable bodice cups having draw strings that gather the bodice cups along a vertically-extending seam in the garment. The fabric of the bodice cups has a folded upper edge defining a neckline without a seam. A shaperwear garment or other garment made using a high tension, flexible thin seam for seaming two adjacent stretchable fabrics along abutting edges, and having an adhesive film bonded across the abutting edges and a pattern of stitching through the adhesive film and the adjacent, abutted stretchable fabrics.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional application 61 / 843,761, filed July 8, 2013, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to shapewear.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]How well women look in their clothes is very important to them. Foundation garments have been worn for a very long time to help slim and smooth the body underneath clothes. Better known today as shapewear, these foundation garments include body briefs, bodysuits, brassieres, control top panty hose, control panties, control pants, control briefs, control slips, control skirts, control camisoles, control tanks, hip slips, waist shapers, corsets, garter belts, and girdles.[0004]Shapewear are undergarments designed to change the wearer's shape, producing a more fashionable, slim figure and to enhance the natural curves of the body. Take for example control briefs. They are d...

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IPC IPC(8): A41C1/00A41C1/12
CPCA41C1/12A41C1/003A41C3/0028A41B2400/38
Inventor GASCO-BUISSON, MARY CARMENSAUSSEREAU, AMELIEDE MAIO, SERENA
Owner GRACE & WILDE
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