Hygienic garment assembly

Claim 1

A hygienic garment assembly comprising: a panty-type garment including an elastic sheet member forming a trunk portion and front and rear panels depending downwardly from said trunk portion, an elastic waistband secured to the upper edge of said trunk portion, and a pair of elastic legbands secured to corresponding lower side edges of said trunk portion and having front and rear ends secured to the associated side edges of said front and rear panels, said garment being devoid of a crotch portion and said front and rear panels being horizontally truncated and having horizontally extending fastening strips extending across their lower edges, said fastening strips being also secured to respective front and rear ends of said legbands; a sanitary napkin having a generally elongated rectangular configuration but with the longitudinal side edges thereof being concavely inwardly curved, said napkin including a moisture-resistant sheet member made of an inelastic material forming the bottom part thereof, an absorbent material carried above said sheet member, and horizontally extending fastening strips carried across the respective ends of said napkin; and means detachably fastening the fastening strips of said napkin to the respective fastening strips of said front and rear panels, said naplin thereby providing the crotch portion of the garment assembly; the longitudinal side edges of said napkin being inelastic but the legbands contiguous therewith being elastic, whereby the garment assembly will fit women of varying body sizes and shapes while still providing body-fitting support for said napkin.