Thanks
I'd like to thank all of you for your input. Since we have such a variety of suits covering 100 years, not to mention all the other elements, it really was a perplexing problem. What we ended up doing is using a combination of full mannequins and half-round forms. Luckily, Roxy is one of the exhibit sponsors so they lent us the mannequins, then we purchased the half-round forms from Gershel Brothers. The half-round forms were mounted with a barrier board on the back and hung from the walls, while the full mannequins were placed throughout the exhibit, thus alleviating the "clothesline look." Some of our bikinis were 50 years old and all were associated with an important woman surfer so we had no extraneous pieces. Our ribbon-cutting was Saturday and we had over 200 people attend, several of whom were actually included in the exhibit. It was a fabulous success. If you have a chance to stop by the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, California sometime in the next year, please take a look at the exhibit and let me know what you think. Thanks again for the suggestions.
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