Suspenders

Claim 1

Suspenders for pants or trousers comprising: a connector for attachment to the rear of a garment, a pair of connectors for attachment to the front of a garment, an aperture in each garment connector, a strap designed to pass through one front connector, aperture, over the shoulder of a wearer, through the rear connector aperture, over the other shoulder and through the other front connector aperture, said strap having adjacent each end at least one first exposed portion of material of one type of the hook or loop of hook and loop fastener material, said strap having, near each end and spaced from said one exposed portion, at least one corresponding second exposed portion of material of the other type of the hook and loop fastener material, whereby the strap may be attached to each front connector by extending the corresponding end thereof through the connector aperture and pressing the two corresponding portions together, to the corresponding portions being so located that such attachment takes place on strap extents at the front of the wearer, a junction member having two surface portions adapted respectively to contact, surfaces of each of the strap extents which extend between the rear connector and the shoulder of the wearer, one of the mutually contacting surfaces of the junction member and of the rear strap extent being of hook type fastener material and the other of the mutually contacting surfaces being of a type to make pressure attachment to the last mentioned hook type fastener material.