Garment Tethering System for Skirt Shape Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Women's garments, such as dresses and bathing dresses, lack a system that effectively maintains their aesthetic look and function while allowing for easy attachment and detachment of outer and undergarments without compromising the garment's design or causing unwanted exposure.
Innovation Solution
A tethering system comprising elastic tethers with fastening elements attached to the outer garment and corresponding fastening elements on the undergarment, allowing for secure and adjustable attachment, preventing the skirt from clinging or floating up.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the outer garment is attached to the undergarment, then the garment maintains its aesthetic look and prevents unwanted exposure, but the attachment system adds device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is segmented into separate tethers that can be independently attached and detached. Each tether connects a specific portion of the outer garment to the undergarment, allowing modular attachment that maintains simplicity while ensuring reliable aesthetic appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
Tethers serve as intermediary elements between the outer garment and undergarment. These elastic tethers with fastening elements provide a simple mediation mechanism that connects the two garment layers without requiring complex integrated attachment systems.
2Reliability
If the undergarment is permanently attached to the outer garment, then the garment maintains its function, but it reduces ease of operation for detachment
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is designed to be dynamic rather than static. The tethers can be easily attached and detached through simple fastening elements, allowing the garment to transition between attached and detached states while maintaining functional reliability when attached.
Solution Approach 2:
The tethers are pre-positioned and pre-configured with fastening elements at appropriate locations on both the outer garment and undergarment. This preliminary arrangement enables quick attachment and detachment operations without requiring complex alignment or adjustment during the attachment process.
3Ease of manufacture
If non-elastic tethers are used, then the manufacturing precision is easier to achieve, but the garment cannot adapt to movement and maintains aesthetic look
Solution Approach 1:
The tethers are made from elastic material, changing the physical parameter of the tether from rigid to flexible. This allows the tethers to stretch and contract with body movement while maintaining connection, providing both adaptability and relatively simple manufacturing through standard elastic material fabrication.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The tethering system maintains the garment's aesthetic and functional integrity by allowing the skirt to fall into its intended shape, preventing unwanted exposure, and enabling easy detachment of the undergarment without removing the outer garment.
Implementation Method 1
each of the tethers is made from an elastic material
Data Source
AI summary
A garment includes an outer garment having a skirt portion with an inner side and a pair of elastic tethers having first fastening elements, and an undergarment having a front panel and a pair of second fastening elements. Each of the first fastening elements of the tethers of the outer garment is adapted to engage releasably a corresponding one of the second fastening elements of the undergarment. The first and second fastening elements may include snap elements, buttons, pins, zippers, or hook and loop fasteners.