Beret Display

[goovernick]

HI .. I am looking to display a collection of berets but do not want to use heads but do want to fill the berets out to show their shapes .. Any Ideas of how this can be done? They will be displayed with tunics which will be lying flat in a display cabinet and I want to put the berets next to them or at the neck ..

[Kev in Deva]

Hard Plastic footballs of a suitable diameter

sliced in half fixed

to a short piece of wooden dowel / wooden pole

with a wooden base might be one option.

Kevin in Deva. :beer:

[Mervyn Mitton]

Kev's is a good suggestion. An alternative would be to have a specialist shop cut polystyrene shapes that are just high enough to take the beret. Paint them a flesh colour and it will look natural. By the way - welcome to GMIC.

[leigh kitchen]

You can get (not that I know where off hand) polystyrene hat or wig forms which look like the top cut off of a polyhead with a recess underneath that would take the pole of a helmet stand, you can either place the beret on it & sit it on a shelf so that the "head" isn't visble, or place it on a helmet stand, again so that the head isn't visible.

I only have one, which came with an item I bought, but could do with more for when I finally get my glass showcases up & running.

I've tried the hairdresser my wife goes to without luck......

Could always pad out with a suitable qualty paper.

[goovernick]

All great Ideas ... Thank you !