The mark consists of (a) a shower curtain wherein the curtain lacks any hooks protruding above the upper edge of the curtain, so that the shower curtain provides the visual appearance of an essentially "neat" and "orderly" upper edge; (b) wherein the shower curtain has a row of rings along the upper portion of the shower curtain, those rings being attached to the material of the shower curtain such that the bottom surface of each ring (on one or both sides of the shower curtain) is essentially co-planar with the material of the shower curtain, also providing an essentially "neat" and "orderly" appearance; (c) wherein each ring includes a slit or gap in the ring; (d) and wherein the shower curtain's rings or pairs of rings, and the associated slits or gaps, are each fixed in place on the shower curtain and provide an organized and symmetrical repeating visual pattern along the top width of the shower curtain.