Protective garments

Claim 1

A protective garment for instance for a food processing industry worker, comprising: a body cover, constituted by a generally rectangular sheet of waterproof, flexible sheet material having means defining a generally circular, neck opening disposed centrally thereof to define an imaginary shoulder line crossing the sheet from side margin to side margin through the neck opening to divide the sheet into a front panel and a rear panel; said panels being wider than the body cover''s intended wearer sufficiently to permit the left side margins of the front and rear panels to overlap one another and the right side margins of the front and rear panels to overlap one another when the panels are secured about the wearer; two curved cuts in said sheet, one Adjacent each side margin thereof; each cut adjoining the respective side margin intermediate the imaginary shoulder line and the opposite end of the rear panel, curving inwardly and toward the imaginary shoulder line to define the tip of a respective first tie between the respective cut and the respective side margin; each cut then proceeding generally longitudinally of the sheet, crossing the imaginary shoulder line and, at a site intermediate the imaginary shoulder line and the opposite end of the front panel, turning inwardly and back toward the imaginary shoulder line to define the tip of a respective second tie from a portion of said sheet disposed transversely adjacent the respective first tie; each cut then proceeding generally longitudinally of the sheet, crossing the imaginary shoulder line and, at a site generally transversally adjacent the tip of the respective first tie, terminating in a stress spreading member.