Patent ID: 8756713

Claim:
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.