Cap with crown opening

Claim 1

A cap for being worn over the hair on the head of a human being wearer, the cap having a cap body member formed into a generally hemi-spherical shape, the cap also having a crown portion at the apex of the body member; and the crown portion, when the cap body member is placed over the head of a wearer, is generally juxtaposed over the crown of the wearer's head, such that the crown portion of the cap body member is then in a general registry with the crown of the wearer's head, the cap body member providing support for the crown portion of the cap, the cap being provided with an opening having a continuous and generally circular perimeter in the crown portion of the cap, or slightly frontal thereof, the cap body member providing support for the portions of the crown portion adjacent the opening, and the opening being so located that those crown portions adjacent said opening will provide lateral support for the hair of a wearer when the hair is extended through the opening, laterally supporting the hair such as to establish a vertical orientation of the hair, the opening being about one inch in diameter, sufficient to accommodate a multiple-strand ponytail arranged bundle of hair in ponytail style tightly held together, the opening having its rearmost portion extending into the cap crown portion, and the rearmost portion of the opening having a width which is large enough to accommodate a multiple-strand ponytail arranged bundle of hair passing through the opening; the cap body member being comprised of at least five gores of material which are connected along their side edges, and wherein each of the gores has a truncated generally triangular shape wherein the apex of each gore is cut off thereby creating an upper edge at the top of each gore, and wherein the upper edges of all the gores collectively form the continuous perimeter of the crown opening.