Foldover Abdominal Shaping Garment Without Digging Seams
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shapewear garments face issues with tightness, durability, and flexibility, particularly around the waist, leading to discomfort and visibility of seams and elastic bands digging into the abdomen.
Innovation Solution
A lower body garment with a foldover lower abdominal shaping region, where a portion of the garment is folded inwardly onto a torso-shaping element, providing enhanced shaping while maintaining flexibility, and eliminating visible seams and ridges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If the garment is made tight to provide shaping effect, then the shaping effect is improved, but the garment becomes uncomfortable and seams/elastic bands dig into the abdomen
Solution Approach 1:
The garment is divided into distinct functional layers: a torso-shaping element for constriction and shaping, and an outer layer for comfort and coverage. The outer layer is folded over the torso-shaping element, creating separate zones where constriction occurs only where needed while the outer layer provides comfortable coverage without digging seams.
Solution Approach 2:
The harmful elastic bands and seams are extracted from the visible outer surface. The torso-shaping element with its elastic components is concealed underneath the folded-over outer layer, eliminating the harmful digging effect while preserving the shaping function in the inner layer.
2Shape
If the garment is made tight to constrict the lower abdomen, then the shaping effect is improved, but the garment loses flexibility and durability
Solution Approach 1:
The garment structure separates the constriction function (torso-shaping element) from the flexibility function (outer layer). The outer layer maintains its flexibility and durability for easy putting on and taking off, while the torso-shaping element provides the necessary constriction when activated by the foldover mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The foldover design creates a dynamic structure where the outer layer can move independently over the torso-shaping element. This allows the garment to be put on and taken off easily (flexibility) while the torso-shaping element remains in place to provide constriction (shaping effect).
3Stability of the object's composition
If separate elastic bands are used to secure the shaping element, then the attachment is improved, but visible ridges and seams are created that dig into the abdomen
Solution Approach 1:
The outer layer is folded over the torso-shaping element and secured through the foldover mechanism itself, merging the attachment function into the structural design. This eliminates the need for separate elastic bands and visible seams, as the foldover creation process integrates securing and shaping functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The separate elastic bands are extracted from the design. Instead, the attachment function is achieved through the foldover mechanism where the outer layer is folded over and secured to the torso-shaping element, eliminating visible ridges and harmful seams while maintaining secure attachment.
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AI summary
A lower body garment for shaping an abdominal area of a wearer and methods of making the same.