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BREAST OR CHEST, E.G., BRASSIERES

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With shoulder or back brace

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With midriff covering extension terminating adjacent waistline, e.g., "longline"

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With additional means interiorly attached to extension to support the diaphragm area

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Midriff extension includes overlapping relatively movable parts

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With means to attach extension to subjacent body-supporter or garment, e.g., hold-downs

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Combined with subjacent body supporters, e.g., foundation garment

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Including plural superimposed supporting panels or bands

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With separable closure for each layer

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Each layer separately encircles body

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Including apparel-type garment

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Vertically slidable overlapped portions between breast and torso support

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With elastically extensible connector

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Detachably secured to subjacent supporter by separable fastener

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Subjacent supporter unattached at front

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Subjacent supporter unattached at back

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Front center separable closure for both breast and torso support

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With size adjustment for both, e.g., maternity type

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Including plural elastic panels or inserts with diversely oriented lines of elasticity

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Including elastic portions with varying modulus of elasticity

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Including elastic portion with stretch inhibitor of limit

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Subjacent supporter includes crotch member

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Wraparound overlapped type torso support

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Including panels having pleats or folds to permit size increase

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Stepwise girth adjustment

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With separable fastener or connector for apparel-type garment

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Low out at back

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With separable fastener or connector for apparel-type garment

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For hosiery

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Combined with apparel-type garment

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Breast supporting member within other garment

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Removable breast supporter

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Subjacent garment attached at front only

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With means providing girthwise elasticity for brassiere

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Portion of garment covers elastic connector at back

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Closable aperture permits access to breast i.e., nursing type

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With lacteal fluid receptor or shield

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With inflatable or liquid-containing chambers

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Molded preshaped shell-like cup, e.g., plastic latex

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Strand-type fabric with thermoplastic fibers or filaments

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With stiffening strips, strands, or stays, e.g., wired

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Cup form includes spirally arranged strip

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Woven or braided strand-type fabric, e.g.,wire gauze

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Cup form includes latticework of strips

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Paired strips or stays for cup rims with connecting span

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With separable joint between paired stays

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Annular cup-rim-encircling stays

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Stays with conneting span form U, V, H, or V shape between the breasts

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Cup fabric has tunnels separably retaining joined stays

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Plural separate stays diagonally crossing between cups

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Annular cup-rim encircling stay individual to one cup

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Single stay individual to one cup with arcuate portion along bottom rim of cup, e.g., U-shaped

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With stiffened supporting means contacting only lower half of breast

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With means to separably retain breast-form-supplementing pads

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With cup-supplementing means to add volume to breast, e.g., pads

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Applied to only lower half of breast

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Pads, per se.

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Separable at front center

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With cup supplementing uplift straps or slings diagonally crossing at front center

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With floatingly attached cup-supplementing breast supporting strip or panel

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Forming breast-receiving pouch with cup bottom

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Supplementary means includes body-girdling straps

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Attaching means includes adjustment feature

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Straps narrow bands only, i.e., skeletal type

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Elastically expansible cup or cup rim

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All-elastic cup

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Expansible cup rim, e.g., elastic shirring

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With means to vary size of breast cups

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By vertical gathering of material between the cups

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Cups joined to common subjacent elastic strip of panel

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With variable length connector between cups

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Elastic connector

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With additional nonelastic connector means

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Including plural elastic panels or inserts with diversely oriented directions of elasticity

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Including elastic portions with variable modulus of elasticity

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Including elastic portion with stretch inhibitor or limiter

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With girthwise inelastic size adjustment additional to separable closure

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With means to gather peripheral edge, e.g., drawstring

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Body band has overlapping separately secured ends

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Resilient body-clasping band

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With adhesive means or vacuum cup to secure to body

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Body-embracing band includes detachable connector unit

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Body-embracing band means includes vertically spaced portions

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One portion is narrow waist-encircling band

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Extended length wraparound body bands

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Shoulder strap arrangements and connecting features

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Connected by floating extension at or below horizontal mid-cup region

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Detachable, e.g., convertible to strapless

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With compartment for carrying articles, e.g., coin pocket

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With reinforcing stitching

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Reversible

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Methods of making or assembling

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Materials

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FOR LOWER TORSO INCLUDING THIGHS, E.G., CORSET, GIRDLES

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Combined with apparel type garment

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With shoulder or upper back brace

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Comprising sheet rubber or deposited rubber or latex

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With means bridging or filling out hollows in the body

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With individual buttock-receiving concavities

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With crotch or leg straps or leg-encircling parts

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Upper-leg-encircling compressor, e.g., thigh reducers

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With detachably connected crotch piece

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Completely removable

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Including crotch piece, e.g., panty girdle

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With opening therethrough, e.g., overlapped panel

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Leg anchors

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Comprising latticework of narrow strips or bands, e.g., skeletal

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With apertured insert-type panel for ventilation

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With stiffener for upper margin, terminating substantially above lower margin, e.g., waistline antiroll

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With means to supportingly engage apparel-type garment, e.g., skirt supporters

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Hosiery supporter

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With means to resist vertical motion on body, e.g., friction grips

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Over-shoulder straps

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With stiff or nonflaccid body-supporting plate or panel

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With elastic portions having means to limit or control stretching thereof

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Elastic in entirely (may include nonelastic closures or girth adjusters)

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Edge joined multipanel

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With nonparallel lines of elasticity

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Belt-operated lacing for closures or adjusters

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Vertically slidable overlapped portions, e.g., "telescoping"

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One portion laced through aperture in another portion

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With superimposed supporting panels or bands

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At least one layer includes elastic feature

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Superimposed elastic layers having nonparallel lines of elasticity

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Layers are readily separable (detachable) one from another

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With selectively different assembled positions

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Each layer circumferentially separable, with closure

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Each layer substantially separately encircles body

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Having pretensioning means bridging girthwise closure

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Elastic portions have nonparallel lines of elasticity

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Elastic bands or panels with varying modulus of elasticity or with stretch limiter

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With elastic band, panel, or portion, e.g., gussets

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Detachably secured to garment

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Girth adjustment by predetermined increments

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With insertable or removable girth-changing units

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Having girth adjuster and separate nonadjustable separable fastener for closure

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With plural separately acting girth dimension adjusters

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Vertically spaced

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With stays at closure edges having nonflaccid interengaging fastening means

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Plural disconnectable panels with selectively different assembled positions

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Lacing-type closure with flaccid lace-receiving eyelet or loop

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Closures or girth adjusters with interiorly disposed chafing shield

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With stiffening strips or stays

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Including stay-reinforcers at waistline or broken stay shields

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Movably articulated directly one to another

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Readily separable from supporter, e.g., from pockets

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Having means to interengage with lacing cord

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With closure means for access opening at lower rear margin of buttock girdling member

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With insertable or removble panel unit, e.g., "convertible"

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With article carrying pockets

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Panels reinforced by tapes or bands

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With loops for dooning

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Protective covers, liners, or shields

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Waistline type, i.e., limited vertical extent

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Abdominal uplifting sling type

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Materials and making, e.g., pattern layouts

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