A closing and tightening system for the waistband of a garment is provided. Two drawstrings are fed through four grommets. When both strings are pulled tight, both sides of the garment are pulled towards each other, and are secured on top of each other when tied down. The strings are woven through the grommets to allow the garment to be tightened on both sides, creating a secure attachment suited to use on athletic wear.

A method for manufacturing and folding a gown which increases manufacturing efficiency and consistency and decreases the time to manufacture. Additionally, the method includes folding a gown for packaging which will allow a person to don the gown with minimal contact with the outer portions of the gown.

A humanized care clothing includes: a coat body, a front body thereof including left and right front side sheets spaced a full open vacancy and a detachable connecting sheet covering the vacancy, two shoulders of the connecting sheet being connectable with or detachable from two shoulder portions of a rear body, and left and right sides thereof the two opposite sides of the left and right front side sheets; a pair of restricting sleeve, two receiving pockets, two limiting pockets, a lower body clothing, the pair of buttoning sleeves being detachable from and connectable with the respective left and right front side sheets, the receiving pocket for each restricting sleeve being sewn below it, the limiting pocket being respectively overlapped with the outer parts of the receiving pockets and capable of connecting the clothing sleeve with the lower body clothing; and a collar member.

A modular sanitation outfit, having adjustable pull-sleeves and strands attached to the sleeves and gloves and multiple textures to facilitate the tightening of a belt.

An article configured to cover the torso of a wearer includes reversible sleeves that can either extend outwardly from the garment for covering the arms of a wearer or positioned within the garment, and closures for closing the sleeve openings and concealing the sleeve, and/or detachable sleeves.

A resilient band for an article of apparel, formed with a first fabric secured to another more resilient fabric. The first and second fabrics are secured together by a plurality of fastening structures extending transversely to a longitudinal length of the resilient band. The first fabric presents a plurality of pleats, where a pleat in the plurality of pleats is defined by an adjacent pair of fastening structures in the plurality of fastening structures.

A deployable rain pants assembly, for use by a user having a waist and legs in protecting everyday pants from the rain, including a belt and a pants portion. The pants portion is initially stored near the belt, which is worn around the waist until needed. The pants portion has a top edge, a bottom edge having ankle openings, a pair of pant leg portions, and a waist band having a waist band front and a waist band rear. A pair of main seams extend from near the bottom edge to the waistband and selectively join the pant leg parts, and join the waist band front and waist band rear. Once the pants portion is deployed downwardly from the belt, the waist band rear is tucked between the legs, the user steps through the ankle openings, and main seams are joined to encase and cover the everyday pants.

A guard and method for securing a guard around an electronic monitoring device that is secured to a monitored individual's limb is provided. The guard includes a flexible fabric having an inner surface for receiving the electronic monitoring device, at least one fastener attached to a top portion of the inner surface and a bottom portion of an outer surface of the flexible fabric for releasably retaining the top portion to the bottom portion, and at least one ribbon loop. In one form, the flexible fabric includes a pair of peripheral edges disposed parallel to each other and each edge includes a cutout.

A protective garment having a support harness conduit comprising a flexible transition duct and a flexible rope cover forming a sleeve vertically centered on the back of the garment, the transition duct being attached to both arm sections and the torso section of the garment, or attached to the back below the neck section extending to above the waist of the garment, the torso end of the transition duct having a width wider than the back of the garment; with the distal closure end of the rope cover having a closure device to close the conduit and reduce the interchange of fluids or particulates between the interior and the exterior of the garment; wherein the rope cover end of the transition duct has a width that is at least 30 percent the width of the back of the garment.

Two apparatuses and a method are disclosed. The first apparatus includes a retention surface that substantially surrounds a knot; and a retention mechanism that couples a first end of the retention surface to a second end of the retention surface. The second apparatus includes a first retention surface; a second retention surface; a retention mechanism; and a tightening mechanism. The method includes providing a knot holder that includes a retention surface, a retention mechanism and a tightening mechanism; placing the knot holder around a knot, fastening a first end of the retention surface to a second end of the retention surface; and tightening the knot holder against the knot with the tightening mechanism.