Shape enhancing garment

Abstract

A shape enhancing garment to be worn upon a wearers body for the purpose of increasing or enhancing a visual buttock profile of the wearer is described. The shape enhancing garment is characterised in that it includes an outer rear fabric portion and an inner rear fabric portion arranged in an overlying manner. The shape enhancing garment further includes a first pocket and a second pocket, each pocket located upon an inner surface of the inner rear fabric portion. Each pocket is arranged to receive a shape defining pad and to retain the shape defining pad therein such that, in use, each shape defining pad is disposed adjacent a buttock of the wearer so as to create a visual buttock profile that is enhanced. A shape defining pad for use in a shape defining garment is also described, as is a method of manufacture of said shape defining pad.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a garment for use in enhancing the shape of a part of the human body, such as for use in enhancing or increasing the size and shape of the buttock region.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]In recent years, fashion trends have tended to embrace clothing and apparel designs that increasingly reveal and accentuate natural curves of the human body. There has also been a general increase in the popularity of clothing that serves to reveal or expose the abdominal and hip area of the body. One such example of this fashion is that of hipster or low-rise jeans, where a waistline of such a garment is deliberately designed to extend no higher than the hip area, often sitting well below the wearer's waistline. Unfortunately for a proportion of a fashion conscious population, such a design can emphasise a perceived figure flaw, such as a small or relatively flat buttock region. This perception of such a flaw may become magnified as fashi...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]a first and a second pocket, each pocket located upon an inner surface of the inner rear fabric portion, each pocket being arranged to receive a shape defining pad and to retain the shape defining pad therein such that, in use, each shape defining pad is disposed adjacent a buttock of the wearer so as to create a visual buttock profile that is enhanced.

Problems solved by technology

Unfortunately for a proportion of a fashion conscious population, such a design can emphasise a perceived figure flaw, such as a small or relatively flat buttock region.

To date, figure enhancing clothing has had limited success in attempting to remedy such perceived figure flaws.

Often, clothes that employ the use of pads to increase or otherwise enhance a particular part of a body tend to cause that part of the body to appear artificial, rather than giving the appearance of a natural extension of the wearer's body.

This may be due, for example, to the shape of the pad not conforming to or blending into the natural curves of the wearer's body, as is often the case with oval or egg-shaped prior art pads, or could be due to unsightly stitching or joining of the padded material being visible from an exterior of the garment.

Further, some known padded clothing items are unable to provide a “natural” visual effect due to an inadequate means of attaching the padding to the clothing.

Items of clothing that use, for example, latch loop fasteners to adjustably position padded portions underneath the exterior of the garment are often prone to having the padded portion move from a desired position.

Such movement thus creates an unnatural effect in use.

These types of problems can be increased in those instances where it is desired to wear hipster or low-rise garments.

Such inadequacies in padded clothing do little to reassure or instil confidence in the wearer, who often already has a defined perception that a part of their body is flawed in appearance.

Rather, the inadequacies in such clothing items can render the person more self conscious about their figure, as they may have the additional concern that others will not only notice their perceived figure flaw, but also notice their attempts to remedy such flaws by artificial means.

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