Cold weather sleeve garment

Abstract

A garment assembly has a left sleeve member, a right sleeve member and a fastener member connecting the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member together across a front portion of the garment. A shaped hem member connects the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member across a back portion of the garment. One end the shaped hem member is secured to one side of the fastener member and an other end of the shaped hem member is secured to an other side of the fastener member.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A unisex garment assembly having a front portion worn on a front of a wearer and a back portion extending across a wearer's back and being configured to be worn with body armor, comprising:
 a left sleeve member configured to cover a left arm of a user and a right sleeve configured to cover a right arm of a user member;   a fastener member connecting the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member together across the front portion of the garment;   a continuous and shaped hem member having a generally inverted U-shape along the front portion and the back portion respectively in a direction that extends upwardly in a direction towards the head of the wearer in order to maximize an exposure of the chest and back of a torso of the wearer and wherein the shaped hem member extends from one side of the fastener to another side and connects the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member across the back portion of the garment;   a left sleeve joining member and a right sleeve joining member, the left sleeve joining member forming an interface between the left sleeve member and the fastener member, wherein a left seam member connects the left sleeve joining member to the left sleeve member, and the right sleeve joining member forming an interface between the right sleeve member and the fastener member, wherein a right seam member connects the right sleeve joining member to the right sleeve member;   wherein the shaped hem member extends continuously along an edge of the left sleeve joining member away from the left seam member and continuously along an edge of the right sleeve joining member away from the right seam member;   an elastic member disposed in a channel formed by the shaped hem member, wherein one end of the elastic member is secured to the one side of the fastener member and another end of the elastic member is secured to the other side of the fastener member;   wherein a portion of the elastic member disposed in the channel is connected to the shaped hem member on a bottom side of an arm portion of the left sleeve joining member and another portion of the elastic member disposed in the channel is connected to the shaped hem member on a bottom side of an arm portion of the right sleeve joining member, and wherein the elastic member and shaped hem member solely connects the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member across the back portion of the garment and further wherein the elastic member has an elongation of approximately 5% and an elastic recovery of approximately 95% to 100%, the shaped hem member has a functional elasticized distribution of about 45% along a back portion and about 55% along a front portion;   wherein the connection of the shaped hem member to the arm portion of the left sleeve member and the connection of the shaped hem member to the arm portion of the right sleeve member is configured to maintain an even split of elasticity distribution of the elastic member from the fastener member to the respective connections;   wherein the arrangement of the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member forms an opening between the left sleeve member and the right sleeve member that is configured to be disposed over the torso of the wearer; and   wherein the opening is defined by the inverted U-shape of the shaped hem member whereby same is configured to expose body armor and load carriage located on the front and the back portion of the torso of the wearer.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . The garment assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein the left seam member and the right seam member comprise a raglan style seam member. 
     
     
         4 . (canceled) 
     
     
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         8 . The garment assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein the fastener member is a hook and loop type fastener. 
     
     
         9 . (canceled) 
     
     
         10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . The garment assembly according to  claim 1 , wherein the garment assembly is configured to interface with one or more of body armor and load carriage.