Hoodie with three groups of connectors on an opening edge of the hood
View Patent ↗A garment with a hood, wherein three groups of connectors are installed on and around the opening edge of the hood surrounding the face of the wearer. Each group of the three groups of connectors are positioned at a vertex of a triangle shape. When the hood has been put on the head of the wearer, the exposure area of the wearer's face is to be adjusted to be smaller or larger, by tightening or untightening one pair, or more than one pair of the connectors. When tightened, the hood forms better thermo-insulation, and provides better protection for the user against severe weather including cold, wind and snow.
1. An article of clothing for protecting an individual in severe weather while providing unobstructed vision, said article of clothing comprising:
a body portion for covering a torso of an individual;
a hood portion mounted on the body portion for covering a head of the individual and defining an opening for a face of the individual;
the hood having three groups of connectors spaced around the opening, each of three groups of connectors being separately connectable to reduce a size of the opening around a mouth, a nose and eyes of the face,
two of the three groups of connectors being located on opposed lateral sides of the opening,
each of the three groups of connectors being located at a vertex of a triangle shape in relative spatial position,
a first one of the three groups of connectors being located at one vertex of the triangle shape under a chin of the individual, a second one of the three groups of connectors being located at the vertex of the triangle shape on a left side of the face of the individual, and a third one of the three groups of connectors being located at the vertex of the triangle shape on a right side of the face of the individual,
the three groups of connectors being connectable to define a triangular opening with at least two of the three sides of the triangle being equal and defining a reduced size opening thereby exposing an unobstructed view to the eyes of the individual and an unobstructed view through the opening while reducing exposure to the mouth of the individual, and while still having at least a portion of the mouth and the nose of the individual exposed through the opening,
the two groups of connectors located on the opposed lateral sides of the opening being connected along a vertically extending connection force axis to position an upper opening edge of the opening from a round shape to a horizontally extending shape across a top of the eyes.
2. The article of clothing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each group of the three groups of connectors includes at least one pair of interengaging portions, each pair of interengaging portions includes one male interengaging portion and one female interengaging portion.
3. The article of clothing as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first one of the three groups of connectors is located on different side edge portions of the hoodie so that the female connector interengaging portion is located on one side edge portion and the male connector interengaging portion is located on an opposite side edge portion.
4. The article of clothing as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the male connector interengaging portion and the female connector interengaging portion of both the second one and the third one of the three groups of connectors are located on a same side edge portion, respectively.