The present invention relates to a garment for shaping the female buttocks and hips.
In the present context a garment means an article of clothing to be used either as an article which remains in view when worn, or an article which can be worn under or inside another article, such as an article to act as shaping lining provided inside pants and connected to them in conventional manner (for example at the waist part of the pants). The garment according to the invention may or may not have parts adapted to cover the legs.
A garment in the present context is therefore meant to also include shorts (i.e. garments without parts adapted to cover the legs), short-leg pants and pants with legs of any form and length.
The garment is particularly suitable for sports use and in particular for fitness training, dance and gymnastics. Garments able to shape the buttocks and hips of the wearer have been known for some time, these garments being generally of the type to be connected to the inside of pants, see for example US2007118954 A1, U.S. Pat. No. 5,888,118 or EP1872675.
Known garments on the one hand comprise a large number of parts made of different fabrics, making their production relatively lengthy and complicated, and on the other hand are not always able to cause the fabric to adhere to the buttocks and hips, so as to highlight and emphasize those parts of the body.
An object of the invention is to provide a garment able to shape the buttocks and hips of the wearer, while at the same time causing the fabric of the pants to adhere to the buttocks and hips such as to highlight the shapes of said parts of the body.
A further object is to provide a garment able to highlight each of the two parts of the buttocks separated by the intergluteal cleft.
A further object is to provide a garment which comprises a limited number of components, is simple and quick to produce and can be manufactured industrially with fabrics of conventional type.
A further object is to provide a set of garments which for the appropriate size are adaptable to the different forms of the buttocks of the person who is to wear the pants.
A further object is to provide a garment which is suitable for use during sporting activity and in particular for the practice of gymnastics, fitness training and dance.
These and other objects which will be apparent to an expert of the art are attained by a garment in accordance with the accompanying claims.
The present invention will be better understood from the accompanying drawings, which are provided by way of non-limiting example and in which:
With reference to
In
It should be noted that according to the invention, the garment can have legs of any length, width and shape, and can also be substantially without legs (for example to produce a garment of “shorts” type).
The garment comprises:
The front part 1 having a front fork C′. Advantageously, the garment also comprises a lateral part 3 joining together the first rear part 2 and the second front part 1, at the garment legs.
According to the invention, the rear part 2 consists of two rear elements 9A, 9B, each of which comprises first regions 2A (shown by hatching in
According to the invention, the rear part 2 comprises an insert 19A (
According to the invention, the two elements 9A, 9B of the rear part 2 are connected together along respective lateral edges 9F by a central rear seam 16, to be positioned on the intergluteal cleft S4 of the buttocks; before being sewn together, said lateral edges 9F are of rectilinear shape (preferably a shape comprising a single rectilinear line) in plan view, facilitating the insertion of the seam 16 of said edges into the intergluteal cleft S4 of the buttocks and the adherence of said two elements to the buttocks when the pants are worn.
The rear part 2, the front part 1 and the lateral parts 3 consist of elements, illustrated in detail hereinafter, joined together by vertically extending front seams 30A, rear seams 30C and internal seams 30D. Advantageously the front seams 30A comprise an upper portion 30E (
The particular shape of the front seam 30A is possible because the front part 1 of the garment is formed, for each leg, by an elongate element 20 (
The rear seams 30 are also arranged to reproduce and highlight the rear muscular bands of the buttocks and thighs, for which purpose they comprise a first upper portion 30G (
Preferably the garment rear part 2 comprises, in addition to the aforesaid first regions 2A and second regions 2B, third regions 2C (
The element 9B presents the already mentioned straight edge 9F ((preferably having the shape of a single rectilinear line) to be sewn to the corresponding edge 9F of the other element 9A which forms the rear part 2 of the garment, and further edges 9D, 9E, 9F to be sewn to corresponding edges 20D, 20F, 21E of the elements 20 and 21 (
Advantageously, the upper edge 9G is curved (arched towards the rear fork C) and is to be sewn to corresponding portions 10F of the lower edge 10C of the lower element 10B of two elements 10A and 10B forming the waist part 10. It should be noted that these end portions of the edge 10F have a substantially straight section 10F′ to be sewn to an arched section 9G′ of the upper edge 9G of the elements 9A, 9B, and that consequently between these edges 9G′ and 10F′ when brought together for sewing, a fabric-less region is created which is closed by the rear seams or darts 30J (
Advantageously, the elements 9A and 9B also present the subregions 2A′ (
These inserts are advantageously made of a plastic material, preferably of polyurethane and more preferably of silicone, which is made to adhere to the inner face of the garment fabric. These inserts preferably present the following characteristics:
These inserts are preferably made to hot-adhere under pressure by techniques conventional to the expert of the art.
For example the inserts are of the type marketed by the Italian company A. R. T. Line s.r.l.
The inserts 19A are arranged to form in the garment rear part 2, made advantageously of a single fabric, two panels which, having a greater elastic modulus and/or greater tenacity than the other insert-free parts of the garment, have a double purpose: on the one hand these two panels have a retentive effect on the hips and on the peripheral lateral portions of the buttocks, and on the other hand, in particular the lower portions 19D of the inserts 19A have the effect of supporting and upwardly thrusting the central parts S3 of the buttocks.
Preferably the elastic modulus and/or tenacity of the regions 2A of the rear part 2 comprising the inserts 19A is greater than a value between 5% and 30% more, and preferably 10% more, than the corresponding elastic modulus and tenacity values of the other adjacent garment portions without these inserts, for example of the fabric of the central regions 2B of the garment rear part 2.
It must be emphasized that the insert thickness should be as small as possible to as far as possible prevent their being visible when the garment is worn. For this reason it is advantageous that if possible, the outer edges of the inserts extend such as to coincide with the garment seams. In this respect, it can be seen that the most outer edge 19H of the insert 19A is superimposed on the upper section 30H of the rear seam 30C, and the edges 19M ad N of the insert 19B coincide with the rear seams 30C and front seams 30A.
Moreover advantageously, the insert 19A does not extend throughout the entire lower band of the buttocks, or rather not throughout the entire perimeter of the buttocks, to prevent an unpleasant “stepped” effect being created when the garment is worn.
Advantageously, to conform better to the more projecting and rounded central parts of the buttocks, the regions 2B of the garment rear part instead of having a flat two-dimensional shape can have a three-dimensional cup shape (see
According to one aspect of the invention the regions 2B must adhere as much as possible to the buttocks, with their seam 16 (
Preferably all the regions 2B have a substantially equal perimetral shape (the perimetral dimensions could possibly be different) and different convexities. Hence, for example, (with reference to
Preferably the three-dimensional form of the regions 2B is obtained by a conventional fabric preforming technique, of type similar to that used for some time in the brassiere cup production sector. This preforming technique enables regions 2B to be obtained without internal sewing (the cups comprise seams only along their outer edges 9G and 9F) and can hence adhere better to the buttocks. As this production technique is conventional for the expert of the art, it will not be further described.
According to a further aspect of the invention for facilitating insertion of the seam 16 of the two parts 9A, 9B of the rear part 2 into the intergluteal cleft, and hence enabling the two parts to better bind the buttocks, the edges 9F of the two parts to be sewn together have the already described straight shape. It should be noted that in known pants the sewing edges provided at the line of central symmetry of the garment are always curved, i.e. a shape which in the finished garment aids buttock roundness, such that when the pants are worn, as at the intergluteal cleft there is a “lack of fabric” relative to the roundness of the buttock, the fabric is pulled into the intergluteal cleft. This effect is obviously more accentuated the more the fabric is elastic and deformable.
To improve insertion of the seam 16 into the intergluteal cleft, a conventional elongated elastic element 17 is also sewn to said seam (
It should be noted that the different solutions described to this point to facilitate insertion of the rear central seam 16 of a garment into the intergluteal cleft, or rather the straight edge at the central rear seam 16, and/or insertion of a pretensioned elastic element 17 into the seam, and/or insertion of a cord 18 into the seam, are all solutions which can be used even in pants of conventional type to the expert of the art. These technical solutions are therefore not to be considered as limited to the garment of the invention.
The waist part 10 comprises a lower elongated element 10B and an upper element 10A substantially of conventional shape to be joined together along edges 10D and 10E. The lower element 10B has a lower edge 100 presenting the two end portions 10F to be joined to the upper edge 9G of the elements 9E, 9B of the rear part 2 as already described. To improve positioning of the waist part 10 and prevent its slippage downwards, the inner face of the waist elements 10A, 10B, or at least that of the upper element 10A, comprises an elastic tape 24 which remains in view (
Advantageously an upper end portion 19E of the inserts 19A also extends onto two portions 10H of the lower element 10B of the waist part 10, such as to prolong the retention and shaping effect even in the waist part.
Preferably according to the invention, the height J1 (
Preferably the greater height J2 is greater than the lesser height J1 by a distance between 30% and 70% of J1, more preferably this distance being equal to about 50% of J1 (i.e. J2=J1+50% J1). For example, in a garment of size S, J1=18 cm and J2=27 cm. By virtue of this particular shaping of the garment, which has a very high waist on the rear and a low waist on the front, on the one hand the slimming effect of the hips is accentuated and on the other hand the waist part 10 assumes a position substantially above or approximately at the upper edge of the buttocks, i.e. approximately at the hip joint when the garment is worn.
From this position, by virtue of the particular shape of the previously described components of the rear part of the garment, the waist line 10 and the inserts 19A are able to exert an upwardly directed traction force on the regions 2B of the rear part 2, resulting in:
This combination of effects results overall in a reshaping of the shape of the buttocks of the garment wearer.
The lateral part 3 of the garment comprises the element 21 which presents a lower portion 21A of substantially rectangular shape to lowerly bind the legs, and an upper portion 21B of approximately triangular or pointed shape to upperly and laterally bind the legs, and comprising a triangular terminal portion 21C bounded by the upper sections 30E and 30H respectively of the garment front seam 30A and rear seam 30C. At the upper face of this triangular terminal portion 21C of the garment lateral part 3 a further insert 19B (
All parts of the garment, except the inserts 19A and 19B, are advantageously made of a single fabric, presenting identical technical characteristics.
The garment of the invention is preferably made of a conventional fabric for sporting use, for example:
By way of example, fabrics suitable for the purpose are those fabrics marketed with the trademark DIWO (dry in wet out) 200 cotton stretch or DIWO 140 cotton fleece or DIWO techno fleece of the Italian company Freddy. The garment could also be made from other usual technical fabrics for sporting garments of high breathability type. High fabric breathability is achieved for example by virtue of the fabric composition characteristics, for example in polypropylene fabrics, or by fabric construction characteristics, for example in the aforesaid DIWO fabric, or by breathability pre-treatment characteristics, for example by chemical additives applied onto fabrics of all types.
The garment can also be made with a fabric of knitted type, for example double jersey, jersey, ribbed, 1:1 ribbed, interlock, plush, or single jersey.
It should be noted that the aforestated DIWO fabric is a knitted fabric of jersey construction.
In this second embodiment, the substantial differences compared with the previously illustrated garment are related to the fact that the garment comprises only two pairs of elements, namely the pair 109A, 1098 and the pair 120, which when sewn together form the front part 101, rear part 102 and lateral part 103 of the garment. According to this variant, the elements 120 (
Furthermore, the garment according to this variant no longer presents the triangular second insert 19B, but advantageously presents an insert 119A with a point-shaped lower portion 119D.
It should be noted however that the insert 119A could also be used in the garment of
In this third embodiment, the substantial differences compared with the previously illustrated garment are linked to the fact that the garment comprises only two elements 250 which when sewn together form the front part 201, rear part 202 and lateral part 203 of the garment.
In this variant, the element 250 (
Hence according to this variant, the rear seam 230C (
All the other technical characteristics and possible variants previously described with reference to the first and second embodiment again remain unvaried for this third embodiment.
Finally it should be noted that the aforedescribed embodiments have been provided by way of example and that numerous variants are possible, all falling within the same inventive concept, and that, in particular, the shape and/or dimensions, and/or the materials of the different parts of a garment according to one of the embodiments could also be used in another of the embodiments.
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