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1. A hood apparatus for outerwear for use with a human head that includes a crown, a forehead, a facial area, an ear with upper and lower ear lobes, a nose, a mouth, eyes, front upper and lower portions of a neck, and a nape lower portion of the neck, said hood apparatus comprising:
(a) a flexible planar member forming a hood that is defined functionally in a shape for covering the human head that includes the hood planar member covering the head crown, the head forehead, the nape of the neck, the ears and extending from the head crown to the front portion of the neck, said flexible planar member formed hood shape is defined structurally by a head crown portion terminating laterally in a lower forehead margin having a lengthwise axis, said lower forehead margin transitions into a pair of parallel terminating vertical margins on each vertical side of the facial area wherein each said terminating vertical margin continues to extend beyond the facial area at a continuation position to the front lower portion of the neck, each said vertical margin having a long axis, wherein each of said vertical margin transitions into each of an opposing end portion of a laterally positioned semi-circular terminating margin that has a circumferential axis, said semi-circular terminating margin is adjacent to the nape lower portion of the neck, wherein said semi-circular terminating margin joins said pair of terminating vertical margins, wherein said flexible planar member includes said head crown portion and a partially surrounding sidewall nape portion defined by said pair of parallel terminating vertical margins, said semi-circular terminating margin, and adjoining to said head crown portion; (b) a first void disposed within said lower forehead margin, said first void forming a first passageway having a first passageway axis, said first passageway axis is coincident to said lengthwise axis, said first passageway terminating at two opposing ends at said lower forehead margin transitions; (c) a pair of second voids disposed within said surrounding sidewall portion, said pair of second voids forming a pair of second passageways having a second passageway axis, said second passageways are positioned opposite to one another in said surrounding sidewall portion, said second passageways are each in therethrough passageway communication with said first passageway at a pair of junctions, wherein each of said first passageway opposing ends is in said therethrough passageway communication with a single second passageway at each of said junctions, said second passageways axes are in a juxtapose position with said circumferential axis, said second passageways terminate therethrough said surrounding sidewall portion to an external environment, said second passageways terminate said surrounding sidewall portion at a location positioned opposite of said lower forehead margin, wherein a continuous therethrough passageway communication loop is formed at said second passageways termination at said surrounding sidewall portion in going from a single second passageway termination through a second passageway to said first passageway and continuing therethrough said opposing second passageway to a termination of said opposing second passageway; (d) a first single elastic member slidably disposed therethrough said continuous therethrough passageway communication loop, such that said first single elastic member forms a first single loop, wherein said single elastic member terminates in two ends that extend beyond said second passageways surrounding sidewall termination to the external environment; and (e) a first means for retaining said first single elastic member two ends to one another adjacent to said second passageways surrounding sidewall termination to operationally allow said first single elastic member loop to be selectably tensioned resulting in said hood to be laterally secured about the human head such that said hood and the human head are in lockstep movement with one another to preserve the eyes, nose, and mouth exposure therethrough said lower forehead margin and said pair of parallel terminating vertical margins to the external environment during head movement. |
