The present invention relates to a freely cuttable garment that is designed to be capable of being, after purchased, freely cut by a purchaser into any design shape so that the purchaser can wear the garment.
Conventionally, typical commercially available garments are commercialized and marketed after going through manufacturing processes, such as fabric cutting, sewing, and finish processing, in accordance with predetermined design, shape, and size. A consumer, from among marketed products (garments), selects a product that fits his or her favorite design shape and his or her own size, and purchases and directly wears the product.
Conventionally proposed for a formal dress, such as a wedding dress, a cocktail dress, an evening dress, or the like, is the one which is marketed in a set of cloth parts left cut (not sewn) for different parts of one garment so that a purchaser can select his or her desired design from among several predetermined combination designs of the different cloth parts and then perform sewing on the different cloth parts to tailor the garment (see Patent Document 1).
[Patent Document 1] Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. HEI08-209424
In recent years, due to increasingly diversified and personalized fashions, there has been an increasing demand for a variable garment that can be, after purchased, freely cut by a purchaser into any design shape so that the purchaser can modify the garment in accordance with his or her own preference and then wear the garment.
However, the garment of Patent Document 1 only permits the purchaser to select his or her desired design from among the several combination designs after the product purchase and cannot be freely cut and modified into any design by the purchaser. Moreover, the garment of Patent Document 1 causes a problem that the purchaser is required to sew the different cloth parts to finish the garment after the product purchase, which requires a high level of sewing processing techniques for this sewing and finishing. On the other hand, a conventional garment as a ready made product, which is worn directly after purchased, is not designed to be cut freely and cannot be freely modified into a preferred design, thus failing to satisfy the demand described above.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a garment which can be, after purchased, freely cut by a purchaser into any design shape so that the purchaser can wear it and which has a cut-off part requiring no high level cutting and sewing processing techniques.
To solve the problem described above, the present invention refers to a garment capable of being cut by a consumer into any design shape for use. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn and has an original pattern, in which sizes of opening parts of a neck, a side, a bottom, and the like of the garment are smaller than sizes of opening parts of a neck, a side, a bottom, and the like of a standard product; a total length and a sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, a cuff, a waist, and a lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The standard product described above means a garment whose individual parts are fabricated in dimension suitable for a standard body type by each model number (for example, S, M, L, and the like) or each size number (for example, 13, 15, or the like) representing measure and shape of each garment type.
A standard cut line may be displayed on either of back and front sides of the garment by printing or otherwise, and also or instead thereof, a cuttable design model may be displayed on wrapping paper or a board of the garment by printing or otherwise and wrapped together with the garment as a set. The standard cut line means an illustration of a cut position and a cut shape.
The original pattern of the garment is selected from among a long-sleeve shirt type, a non-sleeve shirt type, a long-length panty type, and a half-length panty type.
The fray-preventing knitted fabric is circular knitted fabric woven with heat-welding polyurethane elastic yarn and other spun yarn or filament yarn by plating stitch.
The cuttable design model displayed on the wrapping paper or the board is expressed in transition from the long-sleeve shirt type to a half-sleeve shirt type and further to the non-sleeve shirt type and the like, and also from the long-length panty type to a short panty type and further to a shorts type and the like.
A portion cut across each seaming part of components of the garment is provided as a seam by heat welding means.
The garment has a part or all of a circumferential edge of at least one of opening parts provided with cut-off design formed in a curved line, and is formed of fray-preventing knitted fabric.
The present invention is applied to an undershirt whose opening part provided with the cut-off design is at least one of a neckline part, an armhole part, a cuff part, and a bottom circumference part.
The present invention is applied to pants whose opening part provided with the cut-off design is at least one of a waistline part and a bottom circumference part.
According to the present invention, a garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn, so that the garment does not fray even when cut anywhere; therefore, the garment can be used while left cut-off. Moreover, sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, bottom, and the like of this garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and a sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, a cuff, a waist, and a bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. Thus, a purchaser can freely cut the purchased garment into any design shape and then wear the garment. Moreover, since the cut portions can be used while left cut-off, high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques are not required, thus permitting providing a garment adapted to diversification and personalization of fashions.
Moreover, displaying a standard cut line on either of the back and front sides of the garment by printing or otherwise permits even a beginner to easily perform cutting with reference thereto. Further, displaying a cuttable design model on a wrapping paper or a board by printing or otherwise and wrapping the wrapping paper or the board together with the garment as a set permits cutting into various modes with reference thereto. Furthermore, providing a portion cut across each seaming part of components of the garment as a seam by heat-welding means permits preventing the portion cut at the seaming part from fraying.
Moreover, the garment formed of fray-preventing knitted fabric and having opening parts with cut-off design requires no fray-stopping after treatment (sewing or the like) on the circumferential edges of the opening parts, and can realize no outlet seam and improve a wear feeling; therefore, this garment is suitable for thin garments.
A. Original pattern for a long-sleeve shirt type garment
A1-A8. Modified modes thereof
B. Original pattern for a non-sleeve shirt type garment
B1-B3. Modified modes thereof
C. Original pattern for a long-length panty type garment
C1-C7. Modified modes thereof
D. Original pattern for a half-length panty type garment
D1-D4. Modified modes thereof
1. Front body
2. Back body
3. Armhole part
4. Neckline part
5. Bottom circumference part
6. Flank part
7. Shoulder part
8. Seaming part
Hereinafter, embodiments of a garment according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The plating stitch described above is a method of feeding a plurality of types of yarn to a knitting needle through mutually different yarn-feeding openings, and serves to stably define arrangement of the yarn of each knitted loop. Therefore, the plating-knitted fabric woven by feeding the heat-welding elastic yarn and a different type of yarn to the knitting needle through the different yarn-feeding openings, due to its stable arrangement of the heat-welding elastic yarn and the different type of yarn in each knitted loop, can locate the heat-welding elastic yarn adjacent to all the loops. Thus, additionally providing fray-preventing function by melting the heat-welding elastic yarn through heat setting processing or the like provides complete fray-prevention for all the loops of the knitted fabric, so that the plating-knitted fabric advantageously does not fray even when cut anywhere.
The original patterns for the garments formed of the knitted fabric described above are fabricated in the following manner.
First, as shown in
Next, by using the circular knitted fabric described above, as shown in
In addition, the original pattern C for the long-length panty type garment is formed by cutting the circular knitted fabric described above or one piece of fabric open into left and right separate portions or front and back separate portions and then seaming together the left and right portions or the front and back portions. Then as shown in
In addition, the original pattern D for the half-length panty type garment is formed by cutting the circular knitted fabric described above or one piece of open fabric into left and right separate portions or front and back separate portions and then seaming together the left and right portions or the front and back portions. Then as shown in
A method of displaying the cut lines of the respective original patterns for the garments is performed by a transfer method or a hand printing method. The transfer method is a method in which cut lines are previously printed on a transfer paper and then this transfer paper is laid on the fabric surface, to which heat is added to thereby transfer the cut lines printed on the transfer paper onto the fabric. The hand printing method is a method in which, with dye-containing paste (colored paste) placed on a screen (gauze woven with nylon or the like), the cut lines are dyed into the fabric surface by rubbing the colored paste there against through the screen cells with a spatula. In this case, used as the screen is the one whose cells are previously closed by a film or the like with the cells of the printed portion opened to form a pattern.
Moreover, the present invention displays standard cut lines on the back or front side of the garment as described above, and also displays cuttable design models on wrapping paper or board of each garment by printing or the like.
The wrapping paper or board on which the cuttable design models are displayed by printing or the like is provided in a form corresponding to the folded shape of each garment original pattern, and is exemplified by a rectangular bag or a rectangular board. It is preferable that the display is provided on the back side for the wrapping paper and on the front side for the board, although not limited thereto. The aforementioned display is provided on at least one or both of the wrapping paper and board. Printing on these wrapping paper and board may be achieved by normal printing.
The respective original patterns for the garments described above are either folded on the board and then wrapped in the wrapping paper or wrapped in the wrapping paper while omitting the board to be sold as a set. The consumer can purchase this and, with reference to the cut lines and the design models, for the shirt-type garments, can cut the neckline into any size and shape to form a desired neckline and collar circumference shape and can cut the total length and the sleeve length in any shape, such as a straight line, curved line, tilted line, or the like, at any position to form a desired bottom shape (hem line) and sleeve shape (for example, three-quarter sleeve, half-sleeve, non-sleeve, or the like). Moreover, for the panty type garments, the consumer can cut the total length and the rise length in any shape, such as straight line, curved line, tilted line, or the like, at any height position of the waist girth and any height position of the leg part to thereby form a desired total length and waist line and also can cut it in any shape, such as straight line, curved line, tilted line, or the like, at any height position from the bottom to thereby form a desired bottom shape ranging from short pants to shorts.
The cut lines provided on the garments and the cuttable design models provided on the wrapping paper or the board may be embodied by modification of those illustrated. Moreover, one or both of the cut lines provided on the garment and the design models provided on the wrapping paper or the board may be embodied. The original pattern for the garment is applicable to underwear, sweaters, trousers, pants, intermediate garments, upper garments, and various ladies' and men's garments.
Next,
Used as the fabric described above is knitted fabric having a fray-preventing function. The knitted fabric provided with a fray-preventing function is woven with heat-welding elastic yarn and a different type of yarn by plating stitch. As the heat-welding elastic yarn, low melting polyurethane elastic yarn is used.
The plating stitch is a method of feeding a plurality of types of yarn to a knitting needle through different yarn-feeding openings, and serves to stably define arrangement of the yarn of each of the organized loops. Therefore, the plating-knitted fabric woven by feeding the heat-welding elastic yarn and the different type of yarn to the knitting needle through the different yarn-feeding openings, due to its stable arrangement of the heat-welding elastic yarn and the different type of yarn in each knitted loop, can locate the heat-welding elastic yarn adjacent to all the loops. Thus, additionally providing it with fray-preventing function by melting the heat-welding elastic yarn through heat setting processing or the like advantageously provides a complete fray-prevention for all the loops of the knitted fabric.
The knitted fabric used in the present invention is, for example, formed into thin, weft-knitted fabric as fraise (1×1 rib-knitted) or any of other stockinet by a circular knitting machine or any of other types of knitting machines.
Upon forming cylindrical fabric by the circular knitting machine described above, a portion as a lower end of undershirt for the undershirt fabric and a portion as an upper end of pants for the pants fabric may be cut in a straight line. Also, since a cut position of the cylindrical fabric is previously determined for each predetermined length, for each predetermined length of the cylindrical fabric in a cylindrical direction (longitudinal direction) thereof, the cylindrical fabric knitted and finished with water-soluble nylon yarn inserted therein may be soaked in water to elute and remove the water-soluble nylon yarn to be thereby separated as a fray-preventing linearly cut-off hem.
In each of the embodiments of
The fabric used in the embodiments of
The embodiment of the present invention is described above, although not limited thereto, and thus various modifications may be made within a range described in the scope of the claims.
The present invention is applicable to underwears, sweaters, trousers, pants, intermediate garments, upper garments, various types of ladies' and men's garments.
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