Abstract A fabric material for use as an elastic waistband for garments and primarily for the home repair of garments. The material consists of factory-prepared lengths of narrow fabrics having stretchable elastic bands, of less width than the fabric, secured adjacent a margin of the fabric by lines of stitches of a character to preserve the stretch characteristics of the band. In the method of employing the material, as in the repairing of a garment having a defective waistband, the original waistband is severed from the remainder of the garment and a free margin of the length of material is sewn to the margin of the remainder of the garment defined by the severed edge. This requires only the stitching of cloth to cloth thus avoiding the sewing of an elastic band to cloth, an operation which the usual home sewing machine is not equipped to perform. The fabric material may also be employed in the home construction of new garments and may be supplied with, or without, other materials in the form of a kit.
A factory-prepared material for use as an elastic waistband in the repair or the construction of garments in which the waistband has been removed or omitted, said material comprising a length of narrow fabric material and a stretchable elastic band secured to the narrow fabric material by lines of stitching adjacent one edge therof to provide a free margin of said narrow fabric material opposite to said one edge, said narrow fabric material having a succession of pleats extending transversely of said lines of stitching when said elastic band is in a substantially unstretched state whereby the stretchability of said elastic band is preserved.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A factory-prepared material for use as an elastic waistband in the repair or the construction of garments in which the waistband has been removed or omitted, said material comprising a length of narrow fabric material and a stretchable elastic band secured to the narrow fabric material by lines of stitching adjacent one edge therof to provide a free margin of said narrow fabric material opposite to said one edge, said narrow fabric material having a succession of pleats extending transversely of said lines of stitching when said elastic band is in a substantially unstretched state whereby the stretchability of said elastic band is preserved.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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A factory-prepared material as defined in claim 1 wherein said elastic band underlies said length of narrow fabric material for the full width of the elastic band.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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A factory-prepared fabric material as defined by claim 1 in association with other garment parts providing a kit for the construction and repair of garments.