Best questions for Daan.Musings on Daan’s cotton berets...
To those who have ‘em and use ‘em: does the satin lining make a cotton beret more sweat-producing than the unlined variety? Does anybody have and use both kinds?
And more: can cotton berets be persuaded to shrink, even ever so slightly?
Long term planning... and hopes for at least a few days over 20C this summer.
Hey Nick, always looking cool there my man. What size is the béret sir?Currently down in Melbourne.
Today’s agenda clothes and shoe shopping, nope, not for me .
To ease the pain wearing one of my reality shields.
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Daan's cotton's are nice, I bought an Espinosa one not too long ago. No lining, but just the cool label.Daan has a number of nice cotton berets that I have found useful in warm weather.
Hey Nick, always looking cool there my man. What size is the béret sir?
Hi Blackthorn, if you get a reasonably sized béret, you can actually shape it to be more of a "newsboy" cap creating a lid to shelter your eyes from the sun and rain. I wear my beret this way all the time, I can even cover my ears slightly this way. My head size circumference is about 57.5 cm and the typical beret size I buy is 28 or 29 cm. Cheers!The main thing that has kept me from owning a beret all these years is that my eyes are very light sensitive. I need some kind of bill/peak to keep the sun out of my eyes. I love the way they look and the practicality of being warm during cold weather.
I am blind in one eye but it is still very sensitive to light.I wear larger berets and have the same experience.Hi Blackthorn, if you get a reasonably sized béret, you can actually shape it to be more of a "newsboy" cap creating a lid to shelter your eyes from the sun and rain. I wear my beret this way all the time, I can even cover my ears slightly this way. My head size circumference is about 57.5 cm and the typical beret size I buy is 28 or 29 cm. Cheers!
I am blind in one eye but it is still very sensitive to light.I wear larger berets and have the same experience. View attachment 103927
Love those Tolsa Tupida's, will eventually get one from you Daan. In the meantime enjoy your great weather.I don't know how many (hot/dry) weather records have been broken this New Zealand summer (this summer being the hottest since recording started in the mid 1800's), but looking at the 2 pictures below, I can tell you the difference in water temperature is more than extreme.
On the left a 2010 dip in a North Island creek which was close to Antarctic coldness (if my memory doesn't deceive me), on the right this afternoon a lazy swim in the Hutt River, which felt like a warm bath.
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And for Spot The Difference: both are cotton boinas Tolosa Tupida, 31cm in Bordeaux (L) and in red-white (R).
Bérets in the rough. I met this gentleman last night while at a Vietnamese restaurant. He was on one side of me and an older woman also wearing a béret was on the other side. This guy was wearing a wool military styled béret. He told me he much prefers a béret to wearing a baseball cap, but complained it's hard to find a quality béret. I told him about South Pacific Bérets and The Béret Project. We had a good chat about our lives here in Boston. He was a few years older than me but remembered (and frequented) many of the same places in town during the 1970's. Oh, and he had an amazingly strong Boston accent. LOL View attachment 104444