PURPOSE: To provide clothes excellent in feeling and wearability, capable of beautifully adjusting the shape of abdomen, having abdomen-pressing pieces of relatively simple structure and easily producible.
CONSTITUTION: This is a girdle having the following structure. A cloth 1 covering almost central part of abdomen is stretchable at least in lateral direction. Abdomen-pressing pieces 2 consisting of a core material are attached on the region from the lower side than the navel to the higher side than the pubis of a wearer and in the vicinity of the edges of rectus abdominis muscle with upper sides open are attached on the cloth 1. A cloth 3 covering the peripheral part of the abdomen is attached surrounding the periphery of the abdomen with the exception of the upper part of the cloth 1. A body cloth 4 covering the front sides and the back side is attached on the cloth 3. And, a crotch 5 is attached on the body cloth 4. The girdle gives little feeling of pressure on the abdomen, free from intrusion of the abdomen-pressing pieces 2 into a part of body even in the case of sitting and bending forward and has little feeling of physical disorder such as pressure on the lower part of the abdomen.
Nakagawa, Yoshiaki
