Claims
- 1. A one-piece, open-seam garment which encompasses the head of the wearer, covers the body and the limbs of the wearer, and provides on-demand access to one portion of the covered body and limbs without uncovering the remainder of the body and limbs, said garment comprising:
- a single, flexible, and integral configured sheet which is substantially planar, has open-seam sides, and has a fixed surface area providing at least
- (a) an open-seam central panel formed as a strapless chest flap zone for covering the chest joined opposite to a strapless back section zone for covering the back, said chest flap zone and said back section zone each being of a length sufficient to reach from about the shoulder to at least the waist of the wearer, and said chest flap zone and said back section zone each having a plurality of open-seam sides for engagement of the opposite zone on-demand,
- (b) an opening in said central panel sufficiently large to accommodate the head of the wearer therethrough,
- (c) first and second open-seam, configured arm panels joined to said central panel adjacent said strapless chest flap and back section zones, each of said arm panels individually being able to cover at least a portion of one upper limb of the wearer as a sleeve having a plurality of open-seam sides for engagement on-demand,
- (d) a single, open-seam, configured bottom panel joined to said back section zone of said central panel, said bottom panel having a plurality of open-seam sides and being of sufficient surface area and dimensions to be folded around and to cover the buttocks, the genital area, and at least a portion of the lower limbs of the wearer, such that at least two open-seam sides of said bottom panel extend forward around the wearer to overlap each other markedly and lie markedly overlapped against a portion of said chest flap zone of said central panel, each of said overlapping open-seam sides of said bottom panel engaging the other overlapping side on-demand; and
- a plurality of on-demand closures spaced from each other at prechosen positions along said open-seam sides of said configured sheet for repeated engagement and closure of said open-seam sides on demand.
- 2. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one slit within said back section zone of said central panel.
- 3. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of slits within said back section zone of said central panel.
- 4. The garment as recited in claim 3 where said plurality of slits form a discrete flap within said back section zone of said central panel.
- 5. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one porous netting positioned on the surface of said configured sheet.
- 6. The garment as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one absorbent patch positioned on a surface of said configured sheet.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 806,207, filed Dec. 13, 1991.
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