Legwear

Abstract

Legwear in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a stretchable main body part including an innermost-toe joint side region and an outermost-toe joint side region and a low-stretching part provided around the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region and configured to prevent the regions from becoming displaced relative to a foot in a downward direction or a front-back direction. The low-stretching part at least either is less stretchable than the main body part or has larger friction with the foot than the main body part has with the foot.

1 . Legwear, comprising:
 a main body part configured to cover at least an area from a toe of a foot to an innermost-toe metatarsophalangeal joint and an outermost-toe metatarsophalangeal joint, the main body part including (i) an innermost-toe joint side region configured to cover the innermost-toe metatarsophalangeal joint and (ii) an outermost-toe joint side region configured to cover the outermost-toe metatarsophalangeal joint, the main body part being stretchable; and   at least one low-stretching part provided around at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region and configured to prevent the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region from being displaced relative to the foot in a downward direction or a front-back direction, the downward direction being part of an up-down direction as a thickness direction of the foot, the front-back direction being a longitudinal direction of the foot,   the at least one low-stretching part at least either being less stretchable than the main body part or having larger friction with the foot than the main body part has with the foot.   
     
     
         2 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part is present in an upward direction and the front-back direction relative to the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region.   
     
     
         3 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part has a first inner surface that comes into contact with the foot,   the main body part has a second inner surface that comes into contact with the foot, and   the first inner surface has larger friction with the foot than the second inner surface has with the foot.   
     
     
         4 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part is provided both around the innermost-toe joint side region and around the outermost-toe joint side region.   
     
     
         5 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part is in a shape of a strip.   
     
     
         6 . The legwear according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part, which is in the shape of the strip, includes two low-stretching parts,   the two low-stretching parts are present in such a pattern as to sandwich the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region in the front-back direction, and   the two low-stretching parts have respective lower end portions separated from each other by a distance that is at least not less than a width of the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region.   
     
     
         7 . The legwear according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part includes (i) a first strip-shaped part configured to prevent the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region from becoming stretched in the front-back direction and (ii) second strip-shaped parts configured to prevent the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region from becoming stretched in the up-down direction.   
     
     
         8 . The legwear according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the second strip-shaped parts are present in such a pattern as to sandwich the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region in the front-back direction.   
     
     
         9 . The legwear according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part is substantially in a shape of an angled C that is open toward a side of a sole of the foot.   
     
     
         10 . The legwear according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the second strip-shaped parts each have a lower end in the downward direction which lower end is present below a center of the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region in the up-down direction.   
     
     
         11 . The legwear according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the first strip-shaped part has a side facing the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region which side has a length smaller than a width of the at least one of the innermost-toe joint side region and the outermost-toe joint side region, and   the second strip-shaped parts are each longer than the first strip-shaped part and are oriented in such a pattern as to be farther apart from each other toward below.   
     
     
         12 . The legwear according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the first strip-shaped part and the second strip-shaped parts are continuous with each other.   
     
     
         13 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the main body part is made of fabric and includes (i) a toe part for covering the toe, (ii) a sole part for covering a sole of the foot, (iii) side parts for covering respective opposite sides of the foot, and (iv) a heel part for covering a heel of the foot.   
     
     
         14 . The legwear according to  claim 13 , wherein
 the legwear is a foot cover that exposes an instep and an ankle of the foot.   
     
     
         15 . The legwear according to  claim 14 , wherein
 the foot cover has a shallowly worn shape that exposes part of a branching site of toes of the foot.   
     
     
         16 . The legwear according to  claim 15 , wherein
 the toe part is shaped to be gently inclined from an innermost-toe side to an outermost-toe side along a contour of the toes.   
     
     
         17 . The legwear according to  claim 13 , wherein
 the heel part has an inner surface provided with a nonslip portion.   
     
     
         18 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the at least one low-stretching part is made of resin applied to an inner surface of the main body part.   
     
     
         19 . The legwear according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the main body part includes a toe part for covering the toe which toe part has a plurality of toe insertion parts.