Today GEMS has a range of figures and torsos especially designed for the display and conservation of period dress and costume. Our adjustable height costume figures come fixed or articulated at the waist, with a fixed head, removable head or no head.
Faces can be realistic, semi-realistic or abstract.
They can be made in traditional wax as made for the Bath Costume Museum in the 1920's and still looking uniquely elegant and most recently re-introduced for the Royal Ceremonial Dress and Court Collection at Kensington Palace, or, in fibreglass as developed for the National Museum of Scotland, with hairstyle, hair colour, skin tones being all variables to enhance unique displays. They are narrow across the back, narrow waisted with detachable arms and hands and are specially designed for ease of dressing, display and conservation. Many of our figures have fully interchangeable parts so that different shapes and sizes can be assembled.