US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast The Barbers Implement Patent of

The Barbers Implement Patent of 1899 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

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US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast The Barbers Implement Patent ofUS Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 1950 Roessner's filing diagrams the humble ballplayer's trousers with the seriousness of a tailor's commission, charting reinforced seams and sliding panels for an era when infielders hit the basepaths in heavy flannel and came up grass stained from the hip. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark