Needle-manufactured textile garment with improved durability and decorative elements

Abstract

A garment for a human wearer comprises a lower trunk member defining an upper trunk portion and a lower trunk portion. The lower trunk member is dimensioned to extend at a top end from a first upper point proximate to the shoulders of the human wearer to a second lower point at least as low as proximate to the bottom of the rib cage of the human wearer. The lower trunk member is configured in a substantially and at least partially tubular configuration. The lower trunk portion is dimensioned to extend around the trunk of a human wearer. The lower trunk member comprises a fabric of the type created by a needle-based fabric manufacturing technique. An upper chest member extends upwardly from the top end of the lower trunk member. The upper chest member is made of a woven material. A securing member joins the lower trunk member to the upper chest member.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The invention relates to a garment structured for comfort while incorporating highly durable decorative elements.CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0002](Not applicable)STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0003](Not applicable)BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]For thousands of years, comfort has been a driving force in the design of clothing. While early garments were made from leather, primitive peoples followed the practice of chewing the leather to soften it and make it more comfortable to wear.[0005]The advent of textile materials and their dramatically softer textures led to their virtually replacing leather garments except in a few specialized areas. Moreover, textile materials did so despite the fact that they were substantially more labor-intensive to create. Likewise, other fabric alternatives, such as tapa fabric made from the beaten inner bark layer of certain tree species, have never been of significance largely due to ...

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Benefits of technology

The invention is a women's woven blouse that is versatility and comfort. It uses elastic fabric instead of collars, buttons, and ruffles to avoid discomfort and create a smooth appearance. The garment is made of stretchable textile material that fits comfortably around the arm and body. It also avoids markings on the skin and is suitable for both long or short sleeves and sleveless designs. Overall, the blouse provides better fitting and comfort with a highly decorative look.

Problems solved by technology

Moreover, textile materials did so despite the fact that they were substantially more labor-intensive to create.

Likewise, other fabric alternatives, such as tapa fabric made from the beaten inner bark layer of certain tree species, have never been of significance largely due to the discomfort associated with wearing the same.

However, development of relatively elaborate clothing equated to garments that might not shed body heat so easily and would accordingly cause the wearer relative discomfort.

While clothing in our own country at the time of the Revolution had an undeniable fashionable component, the impracticality of such garments in the Virginia summer is immediately apparent.

Nevertheless, the inability of such clothing to shed heat did not seem to affect the willingness of people, driven by nothing but fashion, to adopt the custom of wearing the same.

While the possibility has existed for many years to sculpturally vary the configuration of the knitted garment surface, for example with fishnets and chains as might be seen in an Irish fisherman's sweater, the possibilities are relatively narrow in scope.

More seriously, finely knitted garments such as bodysuits and sweatshirts cannot, practically, be designed with significant stitch-based sculptural detail because of the fineness of the stitches which form the garment fabric.

Accordingly, decoration of such garments, for example, sweatshirts is largely limited to the painting, screening, or printing of pigment based designs onto the surface of the fabric.

While embroidery has also been used, the process is relatively expensive.

Moreover, both of these approaches are limited in terms of the range of artistic expression which they will accommodate.

In addition, the most practical decorative techniques for knitted fabrics, namely the application of pigment based designs, suffers from serious durability problems, insofar as the paints used tend to deteriorate under mechanical stress and washing.

Notwithstanding the pressure of fashion to provide decorated garments, and the unparalleled comfort of knitted and other needle-manufactured fabrics, the only significant decorative techniques remain stitch-based sculptural detail and applied pigment designs.

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