Patent ID: 6931667

Claim:
In combination: a) a headwear piece comprising: a crown defining an opening to receive the head of a wearer, a brim/bill projecting angularly away from the crown, the crown comprising i) an inside surface having at least a portion for engaging a wearer's head to maintain the headwear piece operatively situated on a wearer's head and ii) an exposed external surface, the crown having first and second adjacent openings through the external surface of the crown both at a first location on the crown and spaced from each other so that an elongate object can be directed into and through one of the first and second openings and through and from the other of the first and second openings to thereby be frictionally maintained in a stored position on the crown and directly against the crown between the first and second adjacent openings with the headwear piece operatively situated on a wearer's head, wherein each of the first and second openings is an elongate, substantially closed slit that can be opened and widened to allow direction therethrough of an object; and b) an object that is directed through the first and second adjacent openings and maintained in a stored position on the headwear piece when the headwear piece is operatively situated on a wearer's head solely by frictional forces generated between the crown and object at the first location, which frictional forces are increased as the headwear piece is placed on a wearer's head and the crown is drawn in opposite directions at the first location.