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Here we have another patent for what was referred to as a "garment supporter". It was a suspender waist that combines features that laterappeared separately in two different products, the Kazoo SuspenderWaist and the Wilson Garter. Notice that in this design, we have
features from both.
This is a fascinating ancestor of the suspender waist that
became popular for boys from about 4 to 18 in the 1910s. It was
apparently invented by a couple from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1891 and
referred to by them as a "Garment Supporter" The inventors were Anna
A. and Gland L. Gillet. They registered their patent as No. 448,223.
This garment features wide elastic suspenders for trousers with
suspender ends that fasten on to trouser buttons--in back and in front.
A black cord is attached to the suspender ends both in front and in
back (it passes through the connection of the suspender ends to the
main shoulder straps) that is worn underneath the trousers. Long hose
supporters with
double clasps in the traditional Y-shape configuration are then
attached to the loops of the cord (in front) on the upper legs to
attach to long stockings worn underneath knee pants. Interestingly,
this design combines the features of two different types of waist that
figured much later in the history of hose supporters.
(1) The use of regular suspenders worn on top of the shirt corresponds
to the famous Kazoo suspender waist, widely advertised in the 1900s and
1910s. It was still being advertised in the early 1920s but was then
going out of fashion.
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(2) The use of cords from which to suspend the supporters corresponds
to the Wilson Garter, another kind of hose supporter that suspended the
garters from trolly-like cords so that they could move with changes of
bodily position instead of being fixed to a particular place on the
clothing. The Wilson Garter continued to be advertised in magazines up
through the mid 1920s.
There was obviously a considerable amount of experimentation in the
design of devices to hold up boys' trousers and stockings by means of a
single garment. The design pattened here would obviously be appropriate
only for boys since girls didn't wear trousers suspenders.
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