An ultra-slim fastener for a garment includes male and female parts engagable by inclining the male part while inserting a foot into a cavity of the female part, and pivoting the parts to a co-planar orientation. The female has a roof thickness, and the foot may be offset by at least the roof thickness. The male and female may include flanges which have a symmetrical appearance when engaged. The male and female may include a plurality of protrusions distributed throughout a weld region for welding the parts to a garment piece. Features of the fastener improve tensile strength, increase flexibility, and improve comfort.

Designing garments that include brassiere cups can be challenging due to the natural fluctuation of a woman's breast size, as well as a possible disconnect between the size of her breasts and the size of the rest of her body. The high range of size variability places pressure on stores to stock inventories that include great ranges of sizes. This places an inventory risk to the store, since rarer sizes may never sell. The disclosed garment addresses these issues by including a fit-adjustable brassiere portion. The cups of the fit-adjustable brassiere portion include fit-modifying panels that increase their flexibility and elasticity. The rear side of the fit-adjustable brassiere portion includes a back adjuster with highly elastic regions that enables the brassiere portion to fit a broader range of chest sizes. Each of these features give the garment a more universal fit and enable stores to carry fewer sizes.

Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for value transfer between disparate systems. One such embodiment includes receiving a transfer request to transfer a value from a first account provider to an account maintained with a second account provider and including data identifying an individual or entity that initiated the transfer request. This method also includes identifying the second account provider based on data included in the transfer request and generating a request to transfer the value of the transfer request to the account in a format compatible with the second account provider. The method may then transmit the generated request to the second account provider.

A post-surgery brassiere garment for a wearer comprising a connection means comprising strap means operable to secure the brassiere garment over shoulders of the wearer, and a band region to enclose a portion of the torso of the wearer to secure the brassiere garment to the wearer; a first adjustment means operable to adjustably close the band region of the brassiere garment, and a second adjustment means operable to adjustably connect the strap means to a front region of the band region of the brassiere garment, whereby, the first and second adjustment means are together operable to adjustably compress the torso of the wearer in region of the wearers chest.

A closure includes a male closure member including a first loop, an arm fixedly attached to the loop, and a bar fixedly attached to the arm, the bar having an upper portion extending orthogonally from the arm in a first direction and a lower portion extending orthogonally from the arm in a second direction opposite the first direction, the bar, the arm and the first loop lying substantially in a plane, and a female closure member including a second loop and a base portion fixedly attached to the second loop, the base portion having a top edge and a bottom edge and a trough extending from the bottom edge to the top edge into which the bar of the male closure member is insertable at the bottom edge and moveable along and configured for rotational pivoting of the bar in the trough, the base portion including a trough housing for receiving the upper portion of the bar inserted in the trough, the base portion having a recess configured to receive the arm attached to the bar inserted in the trough and positioned such that the upper portion of the bar is received by the trough housing, and the upper portion of the bar and the lower portion of the bar are disposed between the top edge and the bottom edge, the base portion including a pin biased to extend into the recess and configured to removably secure the arm in the recess.

A brassiere includes a first cup and a second cup, a center bridge attaching the first cup to the second cup, and a first wing attached to the first cup, and a second wing attached to the second cup. The brassiere includes first and second cup fasteners attached to the first cup and positioned at respective first and second lateral locations, a first wing fastener attached to the first wing, and a first strap detachably connected to the first cup fastener at one end and connected to the first wing fastener at the other end, such that the first strap can be moved from a first arrangement to a second arrangement by detaching the first strap from the first cup fastener and then attaching the first strap to the second cup fastener.

The present disclosure describes an adherent fastening product (100) for a garment, comprising: a substrate portion (110) having a first side (112) and a reverse second side (114); an adhesive layer portion (122, 124) disposed on the first side (112) and/or second side (114) of the substrate portion (110), the adhesive layer portion (122, 124) in an inactive state that inhibits adhesion thereof; and an array of fasteners (130) attached to the first side (112) of the substrate portion, wherein the adhesive layer portion (122, 124) is activatable to an active state that enables adhesion of the adherent fastening product (100) to the garment.

An aspect of the present disclosure describes a conductive garment fastening product for a garment, comprising a first article coupleable to a second article for fastening the garment. The first article comprises: a first substrate; an array of first conductive fasteners attached to the first substrate, the array comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; and a set of first conductive paths disposed conductively along the rows of first conductive fasteners. The first conductive fasteners are engageable with second conductive fasteners of the second article for coupling the first and second articles together and forming a conductive connection therethrough.

A leotard having a built-in bra is disclosed. The leotard include a front panel and a back panel. A built-in bra is attached to the front panel of the leotard. A top back strap is attached to the bra at one end, the other end able to receive a fastener disposed on the bra. A bottom back strap is attached to the bra at one end, the other end able to receive a fastener disposed on the bra.

Apparatus are described herein for providing a garment (e.g. a bra) that can be used by a wearer during extraction of breast milk using a breast pump. In some embodiments, a garment can include an inner panel that defines one or more openings and an outer panel that can cover the openings. Each of the openings can receive a portion of a breast pump, and the inner panel can provide support to the breast pump during milk extraction. The outer panel can be removably coupled to the inner panel with a clasp such that the outer panel can be at least partially removed from the inner panel to gain access to the opening(s). In some embodiments, the inner panel can be removably coupled to another portion of the garment such that the inner panel can be partially removed and/or fully removed from the remaining portions of the garment.