BOXER SHORTS AND PROCESS OF MAKING BOXER SHORTS WITH EXPANDABLE MATERIAL

• Main Authors: POPP, ROBERT, LEE, COENEN, JOSEPH, DANIEL, MORTELL, HEATHER, SCHENCK
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 02.09.2009
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES; BABY LINEN; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HANDKERCHIEFS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; OUTERWEAR; PROSTHESES; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; SHIRTS; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; UNDERWEAR; WEARING APPAREL

A boxer-style pant and a method of making a boxer-style pant having side seams and hanging legs. Expandable material is used to provide a conforming fit and to expedite high-speed manufacture. The pant is made from a web and includes a garment shell having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region positioned between the front and back regions. The side seams connect the front region to the back region. The garment shell may be essentially composed of an expandable material that is selectively expanded in certain areas of the garment, and/or an expandable material may be attached to the garment shell in the crotch region and/or in the back region.