For many years I've use a similar trick with my Coast Guard uniform shirts. A piece of cardboard behind the fabric tightens up the excessive slop in the pins of my name tag, award ribbons, and my wings, giving the shirt a cleaner, "speedier" look.
KEN CORMACK Clan Buchanan U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
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I've got a couple of caubeens where that is part of the regular bonnet construction, although stiff fabric instead of cardboard. It does make it look rakish.
" Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West -
What we often did when I was in the regiment was use an old expired credit card, or library card. Now-a-days I suppose you could use a used up gift card that has been cut to be slightly larger than the cap badge and fastened inside the head dress.
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When I was in the Royal Air Force, our berets came with a fibreboard backing as standard.
in the 1966/73 period my RAF beret had a stiffener that was like the stuff they used to make old circuit boards from. It was not fiber and it was not plastic, but had a feel of something in between. I actually thought that someone had taken an old radio apart and cut a piece of circuit board for it.
When I was in the Royal Air Force, our berets came with a fibreboard backing as standard.
When I was in the Air Training Corps attached to D (Cameronians) Coy. 52nd Lowland Volunteers (TA) in 1981-83 our RAF issue berets had some sort of stiffener behind the two plasticised holes for our cap badge. The TOS's issued to the Jocks, however were unlined and their cap badge with Douglas tartan swatch was stitched into place by a tailor who made holes on the tartan square and the side of the bonnet.
Originally Posted by Chas
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