Modular Maternity Garment Fastening for Size and Style Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing garments are limited by fixed shapes and sizes, unable to adapt to individual body types, seasonal changes, and personal needs, requiring multiple purchases to meet varying requirements.

Innovation Solution

Garments are designed with attach-detach means instead of seams, allowing pieces to be combined, recombined, and transformed using zippers, buttons, clasps, and other fasteners, enabling customization and adaptation to personal aesthetics and functional needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If garments are produced with standard sizes and fixed designs, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but adaptability to individual body types and needs deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoidadaptability to individual body types
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The garment is divided into multiple detachable parts (sleeves, collar, body sections) that can be separately adjusted or removed. This segmentation allows standard mass-produced components to be reconfigured for different body types while maintaining manufacturing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The garment incorporates dynamic elements such as adjustable fastenings, detachable components, and transformable structures that allow the fixed manufactured item to adapt to different body types and穿着 needs, resolving the contradiction between standardization and customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple garments are purchased for different seasons and occasions, then adaptability is improved, but loss of substance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to seasons and occasionsVSAvoidwaste of clothing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The garment is designed to serve multiple functions and occasions through detachable components and transformable structures. A single garment can be reconfigured for different seasons, formal or casual occasions, eliminating the need to purchase multiple specialized garments and reducing textile waste.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of discarding garments that no longer suit current needs, the design allows components to be detached, stored, or reused in different configurations. This extends the lifecycle of clothing materials and reduces the frequency of disposal and repurchase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Device complexity

If garments have fixed designs and single use purposes, then manufacturing complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing complexityVSAvoidadaptability for different uses
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the garment into standardized detachable modules, the manufacturing process remains relatively simple while enabling extensive post-production reconfiguration. Each module can be manufactured independently using standard processes, then combined in various ways to create different styles and functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The garment incorporates dynamic fastening systems and transformable structures that add functional versatility without requiring complex manufacturing. These elements allow the garment to change configuration easily while maintaining straightforward production methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

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

This approach allows garments to be uniquely tailored to individual body types and needs, extending their usability across seasons and circumstances, reducing the need for multiple purchases and enhancing cost-effectiveness.

Implementation Method 1

A system utilizing attach-detach means such as zippers, buttons, and Velcro allows for the creation and modification of garments and bags from individual fabric pieces

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical Fastener: Mechanical Fastener

Data Source

PatentEP3352599B1Dress for a pregnant woman
Publication Date: 2026.05.20 THE BRAND
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AI summary

System of production, measurement, combination and sizes of fabric, of garments and of bags aiming at their completion by any person individually and rendering each garment, clothing and bag unique, using a system of size and design determination, according on the body type and the uniqueness of each person. The system is composed of pieces of garments, parts of garments, garments, fabrics and bags and has as a goal to cover the needs of each person, while characterized by a system of combination of changes, exchanges, lengthenings, replacements, shortenings, enlargements, removals/subtractions, extensions, transformations and modifications, with the connections of parts of garments or/and of fabrics being detached, and therefore used simultaneously in any change. Due to the present invention, each type of garment is adapted to more needs of the user, with the direct results, firstly, of the creation of parallel and multiple options of clothing, and secondly, of the saving of the purchase cost of a completed garment, since the user, according to the invention, purchases pieces or parts of a garment.