OUTER GARMENTS WITH HIDDEN INTERNAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL SUPPORT

• US 20190320747A1
• Filed: 04/18/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lane Bryant Purchasing Corp. (Mahwah Bergen Retail Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Lane Bryant Purchasing Corp. (Mahwah Bergen Retail Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: OTASHEVICH, Lazar, SON, Su, MCLAUGHLIN, Kate, WONG, Tung Ting, SMITH, Siobhan, ZAVALA, JR., Jose Manuel
• Application Number:
  US16/388,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20190320747A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/06 Trousers
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/14 Skirts
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2300/322 using slide fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/38 Shaping the contour of the body or adjusting the figure
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/02 Linings
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/02 Layered materials characterised by special function or use A41D31/04
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/04 characterised by special function or use protective clothing affording protection against heat or harmful chemical agents or for use at high altitudes A62B17/00; composition of materials for coverings or clothing affording protection against harmful chemical agents A62D5/00

Abstract

A lower body outer garment, such as a pant, or trouser is provided which has an interior support assembly that provides full circumferential support and which helps to redefine the wearer'"'"'s appearance. The support is in one embodiment provided in the form of internal mesh re-enforcing panels that smooth the upper buttocks and flatten the tummy. The invention also relates to twill or denim fabric versions of the lower garment, and includes the front and rear power control panels having strategic hem placement to avoid cutting into fleshy areas on the wearer.

Claims

1. An outer garment having a right leg covering and a left leg covering which are integral at a superior region with a lower body member joined to a stretch waistband and the outer garment including a front body portion and a back portion and an integrated inner control construct comprising a power mesh fabric and which provides full circumferential support for the lower waist portion of the garment joined at a superior edge to the waistband and comprising a front abdominal portion, and a back sacral portion, and the front abdominal portion is joined to the back sacral portion, and front abdominal portion and the back sacral portions each have a left lateral side and a right lateral side, and the left lateral side of the front portion is directly or indirectly joined to the right lateral side of the back sacral portion and the right lateral side of the front portion is directly or indirectly joined to the left lateral side of the back sacral portion.

2. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the outer garment is a pant, trouser or legging.

3. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the outer garment is a dress or skirt.

4. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the back gluteal portion curves upwardly from the left lateral side and the right lateral side to a center portion.

5. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the inner control construct is a mesh fabric.

6. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the inner control construct has a lower boundary that floats relative to the outer garment.

7. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the outer control garment includes side seams on the lateral sides, and the inner control garment is seamed with the outer control garment in the side seams.

8. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the outer control garment has a size according to standard garment sizing and the inner control construct is 3% smaller by volume than the standard size of the outer garment.

9. An outer garment as set forth in claim 8, wherein the inner construct is 5% smaller by volume than the standard size of the outer garment.

10. An outer garment as set forth in claim 1, wherein the back control panels are hip yoke members.

11. An outer garment having a right leg covering and a left leg covering which are integral at a superior region with a lower body member having a front ingress zipper and the outer garment including a front body portion and a back portion and an integrated inner control construct comprising a power mesh fabric and which provides full circumferential support for the lower waist portion of the garment and comprising a front abdominal portion, and a back sacral portion, and the front abdominal portion is joined to the back sacral portion, and front abdominal portion and the back sacral portions each have a left lateral side and a right lateral side, and the left lateral side of the front portion is directly or indirectly joined to the right lateral side of the back sacral portion and the right lateral side of the front portion is directly or indirectly joined to the left lateral side of the back sacral portion and the front ingress zipper also includes an inner control portion.

12. An outer garment as set forth in claim 11, wherein the garment comprises denim or twill, and the inner body control construct comprises power mesh.

13. An outer garment as set forth in claim 12, wherein the garment is a pair of jeans.

14. An outer garment as set forth in claim 13, wherein the ingress zipper is incorporated into a center front seam of the garment.

15. An outer garment as set forth in claim 11, wherein the interior support construct terminates within the leg coverings but at a length superior to the end of the right leg covering and the left leg covering.

16. An outer garment as set forth in claim 15, wherein the interior support construct is fused to the right leg covering and the left leg covering.

17. An outer garment as set forth in claim 16, wherein the termination of the fused interior support construct is scalloped.