Article of apparel
A textile shirt and a method of forming a shirt from a textile material are described herein. The method includes marking a surface of a circularly formed textile structure with a boundary line that defines approximately half of a shirt pattern. Portions of the textile structure disposed exteriorly of the boundary line are removed and the boundary line is marked along the surface of the textile structure such that once the portions are removed from the textile structure, a shirt can be formed from the textile structure with a single seam. The shirt includes a yoke portion including armholes defined by sleeves disposed on either side of the yoke portion and a tubular torso portion configured to span the torso of a wearer beneath the armholes. The shirt includes a single interior seam extending along the sleeves and along a back of the textile shirt between the yoke portion and the chest portion.
1. A method of forming a shirt from a textile material, comprising:
marking a surface of a circularly formed textile structure with a boundary line that defines approximately half of a shirt pattern, wherein the shirt pattern comprises a lower portion defining a tubular torso portion and an upper portion with two subportions that define a yoke portion;
removing portions of the textile structure disposed exteriorly of the boundary line; and
once the portions are removed from the textile structure, forming a shirt from the textile structure with a single interior seam that extends from one sleeve end to a second sleeve end through only a back of the shirt, the single interior seam coupling each of the two subportions to the lower portion in a manner that provides a vertical opening in the back of the shirt and forms sleeves from the yoke portion.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
installing the single interior seam between a back of the tubular torso portion of the shirt and a back of the yoke portion of the shirt.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein installing further comprises:
installing the single interior seam beneath the sleeves defined by the yoke portion to form tubular sleeves from the shirt pattern.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the upper portion further defines a neck opening and the method further comprises:
hemming the neck opening, hemming distal ends of the sleeves, and hemming a bottom edge of the tubular torso portion to finish the shirt.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the lower portion spans a width of the textile structure and the boundary line provides no-cut lines around the lower portion.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
folding the two subportions of the upper portion to align upper edges of the two subportions with an upper edge of the lower portion; and
the coupling comprises coupling the upper edges of the two subportions to the upper edge of the lower portion with the single interior seam.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vertical opening bisects the back of the shirt.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the marking comprises providing one or more indicia on the surface of the textile structure that facilitates alignment of a cutting device with the textile structure.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the removing comprises cutting along the boundary line with two or fewer cuts.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the removing removes no greater than 30% of the textile structure.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the removing comprises cutting with an automated cutting process.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
forming the circularly formed textile structure with a circular knit process.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the circular knit process utilizes one or more of: (1) natural strands and synthetic strands; (2) elastic strands and non-elastic strands; and (3) first color strands and second color strands, to form the circularly formed textile structure so that a first portion of the shirt has a first texture or first color and a second portion of the textile structure has a second texture or second color.