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HERMAN L. MELTZER, OF NEW YORK, NY. REVERSIBLE GAR MENT. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,841, dated July 5, 1887. Application filed November 23, 1886. Serial No. 219,607. No model.) To all, whon, it naily concern: illustrating the formation of the cape portion Be it known that I, HERMAN L. MELTZER, a of the cloak in relation to the skirt portion. resident of New York city, in the county and In the drawings, A represents a garment, 55. State of New York, have invented a new and (here shown in the form of a cloak) of which 5 useful Improvementin Garments, of which the B represents the body or sack portion, C the following is a specification. - skirt, D the sleeves, and Ethe cape, and the This invention consists in a garment which body portion of the garment is adapted to be is provided with buttons and button-holes, the buttoned at the front. The portion of the gar- 6o former being secured to the garment at a point ment comprising the waist or body part is O contiguous to the boundary of the latter, made separate from that comprising the skirt. whereby the button is adapted to be passed portion, and is seamed or sewed thereto. The through the button-hole without being de cape is made integral or in one piece with the tached from its fastening and to occupy apo. skirt portion, and without any seam. ... 65 sition upon either side of the garment, all sub This garment is so formed as to be reversed I5 stantially as hereinafter described and shown. or turned inside out, and when it is, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in the form of a Newmarket garmentThe invention which isalso provided consists with in body,a reversible skirt, cloak, the cape lies pendent on the opposite or inner side, as shown in Figs, 5 and 6, and 7c. andgral capewith portions,the material which comprising latter is made the skirSt. -serves to give a form to the garment in the -2O portion, the sack or body portion thereof manner of a bustle. When desired, the gar made separate from and seamed to the skirt nent can be reversed, together with the sleeves portion, said garment being provided with but thereof, the cape portion thrown up overthe. tons and button-holes, the former being secured shoulders, and thus a garment of the form of 75 to the garment at a point contiguous to the a cape-cloak is presented. This cape may be . boundary of the latter, whereby the buttons provided with buttons, loops, or other fasten 25 are adapted to be passed through the button ing devices for securing it in the proper posi holes without being detached from their fast tion for wear. enings, and to occupy a position on either The garment is provided with buttons G. So side of the garment, all substantially as here and button-holes H, for engaging said buttons in after described and shown. . . and securing the garment closed. The gar In the accompanying sheets of drawings the ment is also provided with slits or holes J, garment of the present invention is illustrated, at the edge of which holes, the buttons G are and Figures 1 and 2 are front and rear views secured, said buttons being placed upon thread, of the garment with its side outermost to catgut, wire, or other flexible material, a, in 35 present the appearance of a “Newmarket' such a manner that they may be made to OC cloak. Figs. 3 and 4 are front and rear views cupy a position on either side of the material. of the garment with its side outermost pre forming the garment, as is particularly shown senting the appearance of a “Havelock’ or in the drawings in the views of Sheet 2. go cape cloak. Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the When the garment has been worn with either garment of Figs. 1 and 2 spread out and side outermost and it is reversed to be worn showing the inner side thereof. Fig. 6 is a sec with its other side outermost, the buttons are tion on line 6 6 of Figs. 2 and 5. Fig. 7 is an on what would then be the inside or “wrong’ enlarged view of a portion of the lapel, illus side of the garment, and the buttons have sim 95 trating the button and button-hole arrange. ply to be passed through their respective ap 45 ment whereby the same buttons ferve in the ertures J (their securing-thread a being slack use of the garment with either side out. Figs. enough to permit) to assume a position on the 8 and 9 are sections on line acac and y y of the other or opposite side of the material, and for same. Figs. 10, 11, and 12 are horizontal or a proper and practical use. loo transverse sections of the garment, illustrating In buttoning the garment, as shown in the 53 the manner of employment of one series of drawings, Figs. 1, 7, 10, 11, and 12, each lapel buttons for use when either side of the gar LM respectively has its series of buttons G. ment is worn outermost. Fig. 13 is a view each with its aperture J, and each lapel has a 3. 365,841 series of button-holes. H. H.; and it will be a pattern sugh as stripes, checks or other de seen from this construction that the garment signs-while the other side may be of a uni is what is well known as “double-breasted,’ form color, and thus it will be seen that a gar- 45 can be wor, with either side out, and can be ment of the character described may be worn, 5 buttoned by the buttons of either lapel; and, as described, to present the appearance of two in addition to the buttons which are on the different garments as to the pattern, cut, or outside of one lapel and buttoned through the shape, and also the appearance of entirely . button-holes of the other lapel, the buttons of different garments as to the texture of the goods. So such other lapel are also presented to view, if of which it is composed. . . O desired, or they may be turned in and through Having thus described my invention, what I their slits J to the inner side of the Iapel, and claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, then will not be presented to view. 1S- . In the drawings, Fig. 10 is a section repre 1. Agarment provided with a button and 55 senting the garment with one side out-for in button-hole, the former being secured to the stance, to form a Newmarket cloak-with its garment at a point contiguous to the bounday - buttons of one lapel, L, buttoned through the of the latter, whereby the, button is adapted to button-holes H of the other lapel, M, and the be passed through the putton-hole without be buttons G of such other lapel outermost, as ing detached from its fastening, and to occupy 6o shown; but, if desired, such buttons G may be a position upon either side of the garment, as turned in, as shown in Fig. 11, in which case set forth. they would not be exposed to view. 2. A reversible garment provided with body, Fig. 12 represents a cross-section of the gar skirt, and cape portions, which latter is made ment turned with its other side outerinost, integral with the material comprising the 65 the buttons G also turned to the then outside, skirt portion, the sack or body portion thereof 25 and it will be seen that the buttons G of the made separate from and seamed to the skirt other lapel, M., may be turned outermost to portion, and the garment being provided with Yor le?t within, as shown by the dotted buttons and button-holes, the former being se neS. cured to the garment at a point contiguous to 7c In Fig. 13 is represented the manner of the boundary of the latter, whereby the buttons 3o forming the skirt and cape in one and the same are adapted to be passed, through the button piece of material. It is desirable to so form holes without being detached from their fast the cape, as it insures a better set and position, enings, and to occupy positions on either side in relation to the body portion of the garment, of the garment, as set forth. . . . . 75 and, when worn outermost, concealing from In testimony that I claim the foregoing as view the seams by which the skirts are secured my invention I have signed my name, in pres to the waist or body. ence of two witnesses, this 18th day of Septem It is desirable in making these garments ber, 1886. . . . to form them of material whose opposite sides differ in appearance-such, for instance, as HERMAN L. MELTZER. one having a shaggy or furry texture for one Witnesses: . . side and a smooth appearance on the other WM. SEARS BELLOWs, side; and one side may have worked therein ALBERT DELovEE PUTER.