gathered fabric having successive courses varying between simple knit and welt knit stitches simple knit stitches are used to distinguish those stitch constructions possible on a circular knitting machine and in which yarn is taken into a needle during each rotation of the cylinder such as plain purl tuck and combinations thereof reference to welt knit is intended to encompass miss stitch or float stitch constructions in which loops in certain courses are held without additional yarns being taken and then knit into subsequent courses thereby gathering the courses together and providing the characteristic turned welt or panel effect referred to above in another embodiment that shown in fig3 a blank 130 is made similarly to the blank 30 in fig2 but without the central gathered portion 25 39 a cylindrical tubular fabric torso encircling portion 120 39 is knit in the form of a turned welt portion 122 39 and an upper torso portion comprising a front torso portion 127 39 and a rear torso portion 128 39 the front torso portion 127 39 comprises a series of courses defining a cylindrical tubular fabric portion having a pair of breast cups 126 39 on the front portion defined by areas in which the.