IP Couture: Garment Having a Buttocks Cleavage Revealing Feature

It's hard to believe that several millennia of the development of fashion had to pass before this innovation surfaced. After all, chest cleavage has proven an enduring feature in fashion trends from the Renaissance up through Marilyn Monroe. It's only logical that the same principal be applied to the buttocks via these pants.

Two notable things about this patent, 6,473,908. First, the background section of the specifications includes a passage about the meaning behind fashion that's written with a flair for critical theory that is unusual in utility patents.

Second, this is a utility patent, which could mean that any pants incorporating "buttocks cleavage" may be subject to infringement. I wonder if the inventor, one Thomas Bontems of Tempe, Arizona, sent out cease-and-desist letters to plumbers across the nation.


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