Shirt with reduced ride

Abstract

The invention is directed to a shirt having reduced ride despite the significant activity of the wearer that includes a sleeve having a gusset and the back of the shirt is a yokeless back, i.e., free of a horizontal seam crossing the back slightly below the neck line, and the fabric of the shirt is a bi-stretch woven fabric.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A shirt comprising:
 (a) a body portion with a front side and backside sewn together to form an armhole on each side of the shirt, the body portion having a predetermined size;   (b) a pair of sleeves joined to the arm holes, the sleeves having a predetermined size and each sleeve having an arm portion joined together at an underside seam extending from the wrist end of the sleeve in a longitudinal direction to a point proximate to the elbow position within the sleeve and a gusset;   (c) each gusset having a shape defined by (i) a first side attached along the underarm portion of the armhole with the approximate center point of the first side intersecting a seam where the front side and backside are sewn together; and (ii) a second and third side of the gusset of substantially equivalent length extending from opposing sides of the first side of the gusset directionally toward the wrist opening of the sleeve and joining together on the underside of the sleeve at the point proximate to the elbow position within the sleeve.   (d) the body portion and sleeves being a bi-stretch woven fabric.   
     
     
         2 . The shirt of  claim 1 , wherein the dimensions of each gusset are such that the ratio of the length of the second or third side of the gusset to the longitudinal length of the sleeve is in a range of about 1:1.75 to about 1:3 and the ratio of the length of the first side of the gusset to the circumference of the armhole is about 1:3 to about 1:5.