Patent ID: 7784157

Claim:
An apparatus combination with a shirt having at least one buttonhole and a front, and also in combination with a microphone which has a coil connecting the microphone to a transmission pack, the microphone removably attached to the shirt by attaching means, the shirt to be worn by a person and the transmission pack to be worn by the person, the combination apparatus: a. an elastic cord having a first end and a second end; b. a wide base member comprised of a first half having an outer surface and an inner surface and a second half having an outer surface and an inner surface, each inner surface having a multiplicity of gripping teeth, the two halves coming together to form an interior chamber between their respective inner surfaces; c. the first and second end of the elastic cord retained within the interior chamber of the wide base member so as to form a closed loop formed by the elastic cord and the wide base; and d. the elastic cord extending through the at least one buttonhole in the shirt so that the closed loop rests in front of the shirt and the wide base member rests behind the buttonhole to prevent the elastic cord from being pulled through the buttonhole, and the coil of the microphone extending through the closed loop to enable the microphone to dangle adjacent the shirt when the attaching means by which the microphone is attached to the shirt becomes dislodged from the shirt.