Shapewear Garment Concealing Pads via Nested Layers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing buttock-enhancing shapewear garments often have visible construction features like seaming, pads, or sling constructions, which are visible both on the exterior and under clothing, failing to provide a natural-looking shape.
Innovation Solution
A garment design featuring an outer and inner garment layer, with outer and inner pocket layers suspended between these layers, concealing the pocket and pad construction. The garment includes a waistband and center seam that separates the pockets, allowing buttock pads to be placed within for shaping without visible exterior seams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If pads or sling constructions are used to enhance buttocks appearance, then the enhancing effect is achieved, but the construction becomes visible on the exterior and under clothing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-layer nested structure where inner and outer pocket layers are suspended between inner and outer garment layers. The pads are concealed within the inner pocket layers, which are then enclosed by outer pocket layers, which in turn are enclosed by outer garment layers. This nested arrangement hides the pad construction within multiple fabric layers, preventing visibility while maintaining the enhancing shape.
Solution Approach 2:
The garment is divided into multiple separate layers (inner garment layer, outer garment layer, inner pocket layer, outer pocket layer) that can be independently constructed and assembled. This segmentation allows each layer to serve a specific function while collectively concealing the pad construction, resolving the visibility issue while maintaining the enhancing effect.
2Strength
If seaming is used to construct the garment, then structural integrity is achieved, but the seams become visible on the exterior and under clothing
Solution Approach 1:
The seaming is performed within the nested layers, where seams in inner layers are concealed by outer layers. The outer garment layer encloses all internal seams, making them invisible from the exterior while still providing the necessary structural integrity through the distributed seam connections across multiple layers.
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AI summary
Shapewear can be used to enhance the appearance of a wearer's buttocks. Typical buttock-enhancing garments include construction that is visible from the exterior and do not provide a natural shape. The garment disclosed herein has an exterior smoothing layer covering an interior construction. The interior construction includes an inner pocket layer and an outer pocket layer attached to an inner garment layer, thus suspending the pockets in the interior of the garment. Pads can be placed in the pockets. The pads and the interior pocket construction provides natural shape to the wearer without compression or bulk.