Copyright © Françoise Herrmann
Whoever says you
cannot wear shapewear with high slit skirts and dresses has missed the SKIMS™ Shapewear Solution Shorts #1 and #2, respectively for left or right leg
exposure. Designed by Kim Kardashian West et al., SKIMS™ Shapewear Solution Shorts precisely
resolve the issue of women’s right or left leg exposure, when wearing high-slit
skirts and dresses, while continuing to offer all the advantages of body sculpting
shapewear, in terms of smooth lines, rear shaping, and lift. SKIMS™ Shapewear
Solution Shorts simply offer more coverage on one leg than on the other. A
solution that is patented in both the United States, and elsewhere, via the
United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)(1).
The SKIMS™ Shapewear Solution Shorts invention is disclosed in the US utility patent US10806190B, titled Shapewear undergarment. The patent was awarded on October 20th 2020, to Kim Kardashian West and Jens Grede, and assigned to SKIMS Body Inc. The patent discloses an
asymmetrical pair of shorts with a greater distance of the thigh covered, on one
side, relative to the other.
Below, the abstract of the patent together with the patent Figures 2 and 9, respectively depicting front views of the patented solution shorts with left and right leg exposure. Images of a model wearing the SKIMS™ Shapewear Solution Shorts, respectively with right and left leg exposure, are also included.
A shapewear undergarment can include first and second leg openings where the first leg opening is located at a greater distance from a hip portion than the second leg opening, such that the shapewear undergarment will cover a greater portion of a wearer's first thigh than the wearer's second thigh when worn.
[Abstract US10806190B1]
Specifically, the
front view Figures 2 and 9 depict the shapewear undergarment worn by an imaginary
person. The undergarment has a hip portion 12, a midsection portion 14, and two asymmetrical leg portions 22 and 24.
The midsection portion 14 suggests a potential extension of the shorts, shaping the midriff. Figure 2 depicts a leg portion 22 longer than the leg portion
24. Conversely, Figure 9 depicts a leg portion 24 longer than the leg portion
22. Thus, on Figure 2, a greater portion
of the wearer’s left thigh is exposed,
whereas on Figure 9, a greater portion of the wearer’s right thigh is exposed.
Figures
2 and 9 also
respectively depict different leg openings 23 and 25. Figure 2
depicts a horizontal leg opening 23 on the longer side, whereas Figure 9
depicts an upswept leg opening 23 on the short side. Conversely, Figure 2
depicts an upswept opening 25 on the shorter side, whereas Figure 9 depicts a
horizontal leg opening 25 on the longer side. The upswept openings 23 and 25,
respectively depicted on Figures 9 and 2, extending from the inner thigh to the hip, are both designed to accommodate more exposure of the hip, in case the slit garment, under
which the Shapewear Solution Shorts are worn, has a slit that extends as far as the hip.
Interestingly, the
Shapewear Solution Shorts are also disclosed as alternatively reversible. In other words, instead of
one pair of shorts for right-side exposure, and another pair of shorts for left-side exposure, the shorts might simply be turned around, so that the longer
portion 22 for one leg becomes the longer portion 22 for the other leg. The
Shapewear Solution Shorts are further disclosed as performing smoothing, enhancing,
shaping, compression, or other sculpting functions, using material known to the
state of the art. Particularly, the Shapewear Solution
Shorts are also disclosed as offering light, medium or high compression, with
varying areas of compression, also variously graduated.
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