fabric is in simple knit courses a pair of front shoulder straps 29 are each knit to the front torso portion and a pair of back shoulder straps are each knit to the rear torso portion and in which the fabric is in simple knit courses with patterns the back shoulder straps are like the back straps 131 shown in the embodiment of fig4 in a preferred embodiment of this invention the breast cups 26 are defined by areas in which the courses are simple knit with the breast cup areas 26 being separated by a center gathered panel area 25 shown in fig1 and 2 in which the courses varying between simple and welt knit courses the gathered portion 25 is made by pulling the cams away from the butts allowing the shorter button needles to pass through underneath the cams to hold the stitch for a predetermined number of courses say 3 to 20 and preferably 10 to 12 then the needles are raised to clear the stitch to form a pleat then the process is repeated until the gather is formed the cams are then returned to the cylinder so that the button needles will rise turning.