US 7,559,093 B2
Bottom clothes
Mai Sudo, Kyoto (Japan); and Risa Saka, Kyoto (Japan)
Assigned to Wacoal Corp., Kyoto (Japan)
Appl. No. 11/909,831
PCT Filed Dec. 21, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/023500
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 27, 2007,
PCT Pub. No. WO2006/126300, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 30, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-155721 (JP), filed on May 27, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2008/0194181 A1, Aug. 14, 2008
Int. Cl. A41D 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 2—69  [2/227; 272/119] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bottom garment comprising:
a main body portion having stretching properties; and
strip-shaped first, second, third and fourth tightening portions having stronger tightening force than the tightening force of the main body portion;
wherein, in a rear view of a wearer's body in which the wearer is properly wearing the bottom garment, the first and fourth tightening portions are located on the left-hand side of the main body portion and the second and third tightening portions are located on the right-hand side of the main body portion;
wherein the first tightening portion runs from the wearer's crotch along the wearer's left sulcus gluteus, past a corresponding position just above the wearer's left great trochanter, and extends obliquely upward to a proximity of the wearer's umbilicus;
wherein the second tightening portion runs from the wearer's crotch along the wearer's right sulcus gluteus, past a corresponding position just above the wearer's right great trochanter, and extends obliquely upward to a proximity of the wearer's umbilicus;
wherein the third tightening portion runs obliquely downward from a proximity of the wearer's lumbar vertebrae along an upper part of the wearer's right gluteus maximus muscle to connect to the second tightening portion at a corresponding position just above the right great trochanter; and
wherein the fourth tightening portion runs obliquely downward from a proximity of the wearer's lumbar vertebrae along an upper part of the wearer's left gluteus maximus muscle to connect to the first tightening portion at a corresponding position just above the left great trochanter.