Brassiere structure

Claim 1

A BRASSIERE COMPRISING A BAND FOR ENCIRCLING THE RIB CAGE OF THE WEARER IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE BREASTS, SAID BAND HAVING TWO END SECTIONS AND TWO ADJACENT INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS, EACH END SECTION HAVING ONE END FREE AND THE OTHER END CONNECTED INTEGRAL WITH AN OUTER END OF ONE OF TWO ADJACENT INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS, EACH INNER END OF THE ADJACENT INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS BEING CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER, FASTENING MEANS ON THE FREE ENDS OF THE BAND TO DRAW SAID FREE ENDS TOGETHER TO TIGHTLY ENCIRCLE THE RIB CAGE OF THE WEARER, A PAIR OF STRAP ASSEMBLIES EACH COMPRISING THREE STRAP MEMBERS WHICH ARE ADJUSTABLY CONNECTED AT A COMMON POINT, AND CONSIST OF TWO SHORT STRAP MEMBERS AND ONE LONG STRAP MEMBER, ONE STRAP ASSEMBLY BEING JOINED TO EACH INTERMEDIATE SECTION OF THE BAND BY ITS TWO SHORT STRAP MEMBERS EACH OF WHICH IS JOINED TO THE UPPER EDGE OF EACH END OF THE INTERMEDIATE SECTION, THE LONG STRAP MEMBER BEING CONNECTED TO THE CORRESPONDING FREE END OF THE BAND, A CUP DISPOSED IN FRONT OF EACH INTERMEDIATE SECTION AND INTEGRALLY CONNECTED TO THE SIDE AND LOWER EDGES THEREOF, A PAIR OF CROSSED REINFORCING SEAMS IN EACH INTERMEDIATE SECTION, THE SEAMS ABOVE THE POINT AT WHICH THEY CROSS FORMING THE TOP EDGE OF THE INTERMEDIATE SECTION, ONE OF THE SEAMS AT ITS UPPER END BEING JOINED TO ONE OF THE SHORT STRAPS AT ONE END OF THE INTERMEDIATE SECTION AND THE OTHER SEAM JOINED TO THE SECOND SHORT STRAP AT THE OTHER END OF THE INTERMEDIATE SECTION SO THAT FORCE APPLIED TO THE BAND THROUGH THESE STRAPS IS EXERTED IN A LINE ALONG THE SEAMS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TENSION AT THE TOP EDGE OF THE BAND ACROSS THE INTERMEDIATE SECTION.