It is specially designed for its night use and as an element for preventing inter-mammary wrinkles. It is also a protection element for the back, the dorsal vertebra and it avoids back pains.

It has a front portion (1) which covers its inter-mammary zone and it prolongs on two oblique straps (4) which are joined to the extense back portion (2), preventing the breasts to be joined. The straps which only cover the shoulder part form laterally arches which deviate from the line marked by the day brassiere, for a good lymphatic drainage. It remains fastened to the skin and its inferior border is located at few centimetres under the conventional brassieres.

The process consists in producing a body of knitting having a substantially tubular extension, knitting portions (3) of the body, which are to be removed, with a number of machine feeds which is smaller than the number of feeds used to knit the remaining part (2,4) of the product (1). The threads arriving from the feeds which are not used to knit the portions (3) to be removed are cut in each instance proximate to the edges where the knitting of the portions to be removed begins and are again fed proximate to the edges where the knitting of the portions to be removed (3) ends.

A plastic-cladding filament structure includes a combined arrangement of a thermoplastic elastomer and at least one conductive filament. The thermoplastic elastomer includes a rigid chain segment and a flexible chain segment. The at least one conductive filament is enclosed and housed in the thermoplastic elastomer so that the conductive filament may be attachable, through heating, melting, and bonding of the thermoplastic elastomer, in which through the property that the thermoplastic elastomer is solid in room temperature and gets melted to become liquid when heated to a predetermined temperature and gets solidified and bonded after being cooled, the thermoplastic elastomer that encloses and houses the conductive filament is allowed to attached to a fabric article or a base layer through solidification and bonding resulting from cooling, thereby improving utilization thereof.

A pull-on garment (1) includes an outer cover (3) forming an outer surface of the garment, both lateral side edge portions of the outer cover in a front body portion F and both lateral side edge portions of the outer cover in a back body portion R being joined to each other to form a pair of side seals (4), a waist opening (8), and a pair of leg openings (9). Each of the side seals (4) includes a seal edge portion (41) where the edge portion (3F) of the outer cover (3) in the front body portion F and the edge portion of the outer cover (3) in the back body portion R are bonded to each other by a continuous linear fusion-bonded portion (40) extending in a longitudinal direction of the side seal (4). In a cross-section orthogonal to a direction in which the side seal (4) extends, the fusion-bonded portion (40) includes a narrow section (4F) which is formed at a middle portion thereof in the thickness direction Q and of which a width W along the inner-to-outer direction P is small. The narrow section (4F) includes broad sections (4A, 4B) which are provided on both sides of the narrow section (4F) in the thickness direction Q and of which the width W is larger than the width of the narrow section (4F).

Provided are a wearing article production method and apparatus capable of accurately folding a main body in half while inhibiting damage of the main body, and maintaining a folded position of the main body after the half-folding operation, and a wearing article produced thereby. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a first suction-holding section (34a) and a second suction-holding section (34b); positioning the first suction-holding section and the second suction-holding section (34b) in such a manner that respective surfaces of the first suction-holding section (34a) and the second suction-holding section (34b) are aligned side-by-side while facing the same side; suction-holding a forward surface of a main body (2) of an developed module (1Z) by the first suction-holding section (34a), and suction-holding a rearward surface of the main body (2) of the developed module (1Z) by the second suction-holding section (34b); closing the first suction-holding section (34a) and the second suction-holding section (34b) to fold the main body (2) in half; and releasably joining superimposed portions of the developed module (1Z) half-folded by the half-folding step.

A system for garment fitting and fabrication includes a fabric template and fabric pieces attachable to the template to form the garment. A method for garment fitting and fabrication includes draping pre-fabricated modular fabric pieces on a wearer.

Disclosed is a protector that lightens a shock when a wearer falls, and reduces an unpleasant feeling given to a wearer when worn for a long period of time. Protector 1 is substantially circular in a plan view and is disposed at a position to cover near a femoral-neck portion 21 from a side portion of a wearer. The protector 1 is curved in a thickness direction so that an outer surface 10, comprising a single-layer structure composed of a polymer-foam body, is convex, and an inner surface 20 is concave. An amount of displacement in the thickness direction when a load of 20 N is applied at a central portion of the outer surface 10 when placed on a flat surface is 3 mm - 20 mm.

A fitting kit (1) comprises a protective garment (2), for example a sock or a glove, and a containment wrapping (4) provided with closing means (8,10) for containing said protective garment (2) in an air-tight fashion.

The kit (1) is provided with safety means that show a previous use of the protective garment since, when the protective garment is put into the wrapping again after the first use, the wrapping walls become wet with the atmospheric vapour.