Legless panty

Claim 1

In a legless women's panty having a hip encircling portion for extending completely around a wearer's torso and provided with leg openings with the edges thereof being elasticized and curvilinearly extending along the wearer's groin and generally outwardly over the wearer's hips and completely around the outside of the wearer's thighs, the improvement comprising means for differentially tailoring the elasticity along the leg opening edges, pulling the portion of the leg opening edges adjacent the groin outwardly against the inside of the wearers legs and pulling the portion of the leg opening edges extending across the outside of the wearer's legs inwardly towards the wearer's groin, said means gathering said leg opening edges generally only along the groin to thereby provide a smooth outside appearance, reduce bunching under the buttocks and riding up thereon together with self adjustable easing of the leg openings outwardly of the groin to accommodate thighs of differing sizes, wherein said means comprises elastic band means extending substantially entirely along each of the leg opening edges secured thereto in a manner to gather said leg opening edges at least along the portions thereof lying along the wearer's groin while leaving the edge portions which in use overlies the hips and at least the outside of the wearer's legs smooth and ungathered, and elastically providing, during use, a directed pull of the leg opening edges extending about the wearer's legs towards the groin from both the front and the rear directions.