Patent ID: 7117542

Claim:
An article of headwear comprising: a crown adapted to cover a top portion of a wearer's head wherein the crown has a lower peripheral edge and an inner peripheral surface; a brim formed in a predetermined shape at a lower peripheral edge of the crown; a rim formed along an inner peripheral surface of the lower peripheral edge of the crown; wherein the crown is made of a substantially non-expandable fabric, the rim is made of a spandex material and has a sewing line formed in a zigzag pattern along a portion where upper and lower portions of the spandex material are folded to meet with each other so that the sewing line is stretchable; wherein the brim is constructed with a seam material inserted into a spandex outer cover with the seam material and the outer cover stitched together and an elastic extended portion formed along the inner peripheral edge of the brim and with the outer cover formed longer than the seam material; and wherein an expandable connecting band is formed to correspond to the rim wherein a sewing line is formed in a zigzag pattern along a portion where the upper and lower portions of the spandex fabric are folded to meet with each other at the outer peripheral surface of the lower peripheral edge of the crown whereby the connecting band is expandable along the sewing line thereon; and wherein the elastic extended portion is formed between the expandable rim and the expandable connecting band whereby the elastic extending portion, the rim and the expandable connecting band are stitched together.