Abstract

An adjustable apron is disclosed which is made of three separate pieces of vinyl fabric, namely a body member and two identical crescent-shaped arm cut-out strips. The vinyl fabric is a soft and flexible vinyl laminate formed by bonding poly(vinyl chloride) to a woven cotton cloth. The apron is so constructed as to provide a neck loop which is adjustable for wearers having a wide variety of body shapes and sizes. The apron is provided with a pair of arcuate arm cut-outs having seams each of which has a critical radius in the range from 25 cm to about 40 cm. With this radius, when the apron is worn, with its vinyl surface exteriorly disposed, the cotton cloth inner surface of the laminate frictionally engages the clothing of the wearer and provides a good fit with a relatively large contact surface which allows the wearer to secure the apron in a comfortable position on his body. The arm cut-outs are (i) dimensioned so as to allow frictionally restricted, flat arcuate movement of a laminar cotton tape slidably and snugly held between opposed cotton inner surfaces of arcuate hem passages at the arm cut-outs, frictional engagement of the tape in the passages allowing the apron to be held in position on the wearer; (ii) constructed to provide a hidden arcuate reinforcing seam against which the neck loop rubs, and is stressed, without rubbing against the stitches of the seam; and (iii) in use, when the ends of the tape are tensioned and tied behind the body of the wearer, at his waist, the body member of the apron does not become gathered and bunched together to form stress-creases in the vinyl in the areas where the tape exits from the body member.