Patent ID: 6904649

Claim:
A wearable garment with a non-woven material broadly covering an outer surface thereof, and a piece of fastening tape permanently attached to one region of the non-woven material and releasably engaging another portion of the non-woven material, the fastening tape comprising a sheet-form base carrying an array of hooking members, each hooking member having a stem integrally molded with and extending from a side of the base, and a head overhanging the base in a common direction along the tape, the head extending from the stem to a distal, re-entrant tip to define an engageable crook; wherein the hooking members each have a height of about 0.008 inch or less, as measured from the base, and the re-entrant tips are each disposed less than about 0.003 inch from an upper surface of their respective hooking members, as measured normal to the base; with the hooking members of the fastening tape each directly engaging the non-woven material.