Abstract: A drying insert for caps of the kind having stiff visors which wrinkle badly after being laundered and dried includes a rigid visor-shaped section to be pressed against the wet visor of a laundered cap and a crown section having a plurality of spaced arches. The crown section of the drying insert is forced snugly into the crown section of a wet freshly laundered cap, pressing the rigid visor-shaped section against the bottom surface of the wet visor of the cap. Means are provided for holding the visor against the rigid visor-shaped section of the insert, so that the cap retains its original shape as it is dried.