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Berets, Anyone?

quikrick

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Le Beret Francais, with the cabillou rouge.
This is a light and cool beret, perfect for the mild fall weather.
 

Daan

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NEW: Warszawski Exclusives​

Brand new and available only from today are the Warszawski Exclusives!
These berets are -exclusively- made for South Pacific Berets, based on the standard 29.5cm Warszawski Szyty and come in three stunning colours: Hunter-Green, Earth-Brown and Crimson-Maroon.
The berets are fitted with a soft real leather headband and viscose lining.
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The Warszawski Exclusives are available in an expanded range of sizes, from 56-SMALL to 64-3XL.
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The Warszawski berets are definitely the best value-for-money one can possibly find in handmade, woolen berets, at prices between $44.50 and $49.50!
 

Babbo Philipe

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The other day I had the pleasure to receive two berets from Manufacture de Bérets, a brown one with ligette and a black one with leather headband, both 11p.
I like them a lot, both are of great quality.I had asked about the brown color here before. I am not disappointed: A very dark, chestnut brown, nearly black under artificial light, and proabably hard to capture by camera.
Incoming now are a wintergreen mammoth and a white cotton beret from Daan.

Since I liked the Auloronesas so much, I am pondering to get a tarte from them, but I remember Kreissaege to comment that he considered his unwearable, being to soft and floppy for this size. Can anyone share experiences about Auloronesa's Béret dit Alpin?
well in my experience , the newer BA berets are softer maybe the conditioning or soap change, but i have seen them from dennis to sara and the older versions were definetly stiffer, now Elosegui are very stiff and priced at a lower price range,,,,,,but if you like the BA range there should still be some old stock available that Might be stiffer from certain sellers, Bérets Foulard Universel UN-LINED in a 12 pouce , personally i love the older versions myself, but soft berets are great, not a big fan of the 12inch but i have one in the Elosegui and i like the floppy but its thick so it not too floppy, but to get it that way i soaked it in water and shaped it , my thoughts anyway
 
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Daan

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Theo Kley​

Boinero Exceptionel Theo Kley died 4 days ago...
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Theodorus Johannes (Theo) Kley (1936 - October 15, 2022) was a Dutch visual artist and one of the founders of the “Deskundologies Laboratorium” (Experts Laboratory).
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After the bombing of Rotterdam, Kley grew up in the southern Dutch city of Breda. There he trained as an instrument maker and goldsmith. From 1951 to 1955 did the four-year training as an industrial designer, illustrator and advertising designer at the Academy of Fine Arts Sint-Joost. From 1957 to 1960 he studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
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From 1960 to 1964, Kley travelled through southern Europe, Turkey, Rhodesia and Kenya. He was inspired by the rock paintings of the Bushmen and had an exhibition in Rhodesia. After this period, he married the sculptress Josephine van den Bergh in 1964.
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He settled on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam. This city, and in particular the village of Ruigoord near the city, formed his base from then on. Kley created a huge roof garden on the roof of his house, which he would dismantle in 1996.
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In 1968 Kley founded the “Eksoties Kietsj Konservaatoriejum” (Excotic Kitsch Conservatory) and in 1969 he was one of the founders of the Insect Sect. For this he collaborated with the dentist-artist Max Reneman and the violinist Hub Mathijsen.
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In 1969, together with Roelof Kiers (VPRO-TV) and others, he wrote the television opera Mother what is wrong with this planet. In 1971 he founded the Experts Laboratory together with Max Reneman, Robert Jasper Grootveld, Hub Mathijsen and others.
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In 1972 he founded the “Amsterdam Ballon Gezelschap” (Amsterdam Balloon Company) with Guus Boissevain, Aad van der Mijn, Rudolf Stokvis and the poet Leo van der Zalm.
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From 1973 this "hard core of soft aviation" made trips from Ruigoord to Tibet, India and Mongolia with an old bus, called "airbus".
 

Daan

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Another boinero exceptionel has left us... Last month my friend Byung-hak Lee died at only 63.
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Byung - hak Lee (58) was the man behind UNO Coffee and has been roasting and serving coffee for 40 years, an icon in Seoul.
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His wasn't just a coffee house. Unlike other cafes, there were no juices, cookies, breads.., only coffee. Byung studied coffee roasting in Germany and opened his first coffee shop in Insadong (Korea); the poet of Heavenly Heaven and the monk Zhong Kwang were the regular guests of that time.
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Byung - hak Lee was one of the three organizers of the Kangnung Coffee Festival in 2009 (and since held every year).
The coffee house is also a cultural space, Byung used to emphasize. Every Friday there wass a discussion with painters or artists from the theater.
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Byung-hak Lee was not only an expert in coffee, but also an artist in his own right, a representative of the movie company Dust, a film director, and a screenwriter. He has worked with art director Oh Jae Won and made 10 short films. Some boineros may know Byung from his painting of another boinero; a painting that I cherished by using it on my business cards.
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But more than anything else, he was an avid boinero; any day, inside and outside.
 
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Another boinero exceptionel has left us... Last month my friend Byung-hak Lee died at only 63.
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Byung - hak Lee (58) was the man behind UNO Coffee and has been roasting and serving coffee for 40 years, an icon in Seoul.
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His wasn't just a coffee house. Unlike other cafes, there were no juices, cookies, breads.., only coffee. Byung studied coffee roasting in Germany and opened his first coffee shop in Insadong (Korea); the poet of Heavenly Heaven and the monk Zhong Kwang were the regular guests of that time.
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Byung - hak Lee was one of the three organizers of the Kangnung Coffee Festival in 2009 (and since held every year).
The coffee house is also a cultural space, Byung used to emphasize. Every Friday there wass a discussion with painters or artists from the theater.
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Byung-hak Lee was not only an expert in coffee, but also an artist in his own right, a representative of the movie company Dust, a film director, and a screenwriter. He has worked with art director Oh Jae Won and made 10 short films. Some boineros may know Byung from his painting of another boinero; a painting that I cherished by using it on my business cards.
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But more than anything else, he was an avid boinero; any day, inside and outside.
Thanks for this story Daan.
 

Daan

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Wellington, Aotearoa
Despite having lived in New Zealand for well over 2 decades, I still find the concept of Christmas in mid-summer hard to get used to. The elevator music/X-mas carols in the supermarket, fake snow on windows and a good part of the population wearing jolly Santa hats don't help...
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There are certainly good sides to it too though. A fine cold beer on the beach under a cotton beret, enjoying a pipe after X-mas lunch in the garden while wearing shorts and a cool bamboo shirt...
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But still, nothing like watching some Basque reindeer go by on a wintry afternoon:
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But whatever you do, wherever you are, in the heat or the cold, if you want your (gift)berets to arrive before Christmas this year, you'd better order now. The official sending cut-off dates given by NZ Post for parcels to the North America, Europe and Asia is 18 November; to Australia 23 November - that's not far away!
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