| 摘要 |
<p>A neckwear-retaining brooch, for anchoring the free ends of a necktie or scarf to an underlying garment to which the brooch is pinned, comprises an elongate basal member (10) with a pivotally-attached spring-biassed pin (12) and catch (13), and semi-circular gripper wings (14 and 15) extending and spaced apart one to each side of that basal member, the garment-facing gripper surfaces (16) of the wings being disposed in substantially the same plane as the garment-remote surface (17) of the basal member so that in use the ends of the neckwear are threaded under one wing, over the basal member and back under the other wing in a serpentine fashion, thus restraining the neckwear from unthreading itself from the brooch, and anchoring it in place by the frictional interlock between the neckwear and the underlying garment at the points at which the garment-facing gripper surface(s) of the wings bear down on the neckwear material. This construction provides a firm and fixed anchorage of even flimsy neckwear to an underlying garment without any danger of damage to the neckwear.</p> |
