Patent ID: 7140047

Claim:
In combination: a headwear piece having a crown defining an opening through which a wearer's head can project with the headwear piece in an operative position on a wearer's head, the crown having an inside surface with a circumference that extends around a wearer's head and a portion for frictionally engaging a wearer's head with the headwear piece in the operative position and a first layer having an exposed outside surface and permanently joined with respect to the inside surface; an accessory; and a plurality of discrete elements that are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction around the crown, the accessory and plurality of discrete elements magnetically attracted to each other through the first layer to releasably maintain the accessory in a stored state on the headwear piece directly against the exposed outside surface selectively in each of a plurality of different orientations relative to the headwear piece, the plurality of discrete elements comprising first and second discrete elements that are adjacent to each other so as to cooperatively cause a localized magnetic attractive force to be generated between the accessory and both the first and second discrete elements with the accessory in each of the plurality of different orientations, there being no structure projecting from the exposed outside surface of the crown in the vicinity of the plurality of discrete elements that interferes with guided reorientation of the accessory against and relative to the exposed outside surface of the crown.