US Patent 9532612 Article of sports clothing

The invention relates to an article of sports clothing (10) for wearing next to the skin, comprising at least on base basic zone of elastically expandable textile fabric and at least on compression section (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11) comprising means for compression, which are formed by ridges that are provided on the face of the textile fabric facing towards the skin. The compression sections (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11) are arranged asymmetrically in relation to the body halves, divided into the sections provided for the trunk (20) and/or the upper and/or lower extremities (21, 22, 23, 24).