Item of outerwear

Abstract

Outerwear garment made of circularly knitted fabric in which two flattened circularly knitted tube portions ( 1, 2 ) are slitted open by a predetermined length, commencing from one end, along a longitudinal edge and in which the slitted edges, beginning at the end, are sewn together by a length less than the slitted open length.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . Outerwear garment made of circularly knitted meshed fabric, characterized by the fact that each of two flattened circularly knitted tube portions ( 1 ,  2 ) are slitted open, commencing from one end, along a longitudinal edge by a predetermined length and that the cut edges ( 1 ′,  2 ′;  1 ″,  2 ″) are sewn together, beginning from the end, by a length less than the slitted open length.  
     
     
         2 . Outerwear garment of  claim 1 , characterized by the fact that the cut edges of the tube portions ( 1 ,  2 ) are sewn together at one side only, the cut edges of the other side being simply banded or hemmed.  
     
     
         3 . A method of making a garment, comprising the steps of: 
 providing first and second circularly knitted tubular fabric pieces of predetermined length;    flattening the first and second fabric pieces to form in each one of them an elongated creased edge;    slitting the first and second fabric pieces from one end thereof along the creased edge by a length less than the predetermined length to form in each of the first and second fabric pieces a pair free edges;    sewing one free edge of the first fabric piece to one free edge of the second fabric piece;    banding at least a portion of the other free edges of the first and second fabric pieces.    
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , further including the step of sewing together the remaining portion of the other free edges of the first and second fabric pieces.  
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 3 , further including the step of banding the remaining portion of the free edges of the first and second fabric pieces.