Adjustable pants

Claim 1

A pair of adjustable maternity pants made of substantially non-stretchable material, comprising a lower body wrapping section having a rear part and two frontal upper flaps adapted to overlap upon each other over the abdomen of the body, each flap being trianguloid in shape and extending from the side of the said rear part, the said trianguloid flaps being fixed to each other at a point corresponding to their apex and adapted to have the said apex at about the crotch of the body wearing the said pants and the base of said trianguloid at about the waist of said body, the free side of each flap being adapted to be normally directed diagonally in the general direction of the side of the hips, the free side of the rearward flap being generally outwardly curved, fastening means extending between the apex and the said base and mounted on the forward and the rearward flaps for releasably fixing the forward flap over the rearward flap, the said fastening means comprising two releasably connected parts, one of said parts being permanently provided along the edge of the forward part and the other of said parts being releasably fixed to the rearward flap, in a position corresponding to the convexity of the abdomen, whereby the said other part of said fastening means is adapted to be displaceably fixed to the rearward flap along a radial line having its center at about the said apex of the flaps, to allow the two flaps to overlap in a plurality of fan-like positions to adjust to a plurality of convex protuberances of the abdomen while providing a firm sidewise and forward support for the abdomen in each position.