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    Benning Boy is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    An expedient solution, if you aren't concerned with matching the color, are the larger diameter berets to be found here:

    http://southpacificberets.com/

    Look particularly at the Argentinian and French Chasseur styles. It's a good company to do business with, and shipping is fairly fast, considering the point of origin is New Zealand.

    Gloria at Historical Caps could probably reproduce it for you. http://www.historicalcaps.net/index.htm She made me one in a very similar shade, Hedwick wool, and finished it the diameter I asked for.The cap in your picture is at least 12-inches in diameter, I'd say. Her delivery time is pretty fast, and the cost reasonable.

    Keep in mind a bonnet as in the picture will not have a lined headband, and if knit of unworsted wool will be somewhat scratchy to wear. But, I believe unworsted wool, like Herdwick, is the only thing that will give you the full look of that bonnet.

    Perhaps it's on Youtube, but if you can check out the bonnet worn by Errol Flynn in the early scenes of Master of Balantrea you might find additional inspiration for a floppy bonnet.
    Last edited by Benning Boy; 22nd August 14 at 01:39 PM.

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