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Buy them all. Problem solved.Super Lujo vs. Elosegui 150 & Ano 1858 vs. Manufacture de Beret
What's your favorite beret?
Could that be the one on my head?
An Elosegui Super Lujo Grande?
The weight, weaving, and felting of the Super Lujo are at the upper end of the quality scale.
The Elosegui headbands are a half inch flat band of wool after folding and bonding resulting in two layers.
Once a Super Lujo adjusts to your head size and after some wear the wool felts more and becomes softer.
But from my experience the ultimate comfort and quality comparison is
The Elosegui 150 versus a Manufacture de Beret.
Since Manufacture de Beret no longer uses the label Boneteria Auloronesa, BA, due to their move to Orthez,
I guess they are now MB.
The MB with the universal headband is always comfortable.
The MB headband is rounded due to the tube where the ribbon runs,
So the headband is not as flat as the Elosegui.
The MB has a better drape than the Elosegui which is stiffer.
The Elosegui 150 with wear becomes equally comfortable.
The weight, weaving, and felting of the wool seems about equal to the MB.
The advantage may be to the 150 because the wool headband does felt a little more than the MB.
Now it seems another contender for best Basque beret would be the Ano 1858 which comes in three sizes.
Yep!Buy them all. Problem solved.
Good to see the 'winter-Tarte' being put to good use!Out for a walk yesterday during another uncommon snow event in Portland.
Wearing the Laulhere winter weight Chasseurs Alpin Tarte.
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what are those little puffy bag thingsNot often do I have the pleasure to introduce a completely new line of berets to the stock, but here is one: boinas Guarda Pampa!
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The 'Guarda Pampa' (People of the Earth) was originally created by the aboriginal people of Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia. This symmetric design symbolizes the reflection of the Andes Mountains in the lakes of the region. The Guarda Pampa, adopted and made iconic by the Argentine gauchos, has become a design that is woven into the fabric of Argentine and Chilean culture – from the flat pampas regions to the urban cities to the Andes Mountains.
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Many designs, originally of Mataco and Mapuche origin, are commonly seen in gaucho's berets. Hard to find, even in Argentina and Chile, South Pacific Berets now stocks a (very) small number of boinas guarda pampa (with more stock expected late December). Hard wearing, heavy duty cotton berets (120 grams each!).
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Like so many New Zealanders, and people across the globe, I am still trying to come to terms with the terrorist attacks on the two mosques in Christchurch, Friday a week ago.
Pain and an overwhelming sense of loss. Pain, for all those people who have lost their loved ones and the suffering of all those (critically) wounded people, fighting for their lives.
Loss, in the sense of loosing our innocence, this country that for so long felt like a last safe haven on this planet; far away from everywhere in the literal and metaphorical sense.
Police go (went) around the street unarmed, no checks for weapons when boarding domestic flights, my children who don't realize how special it is to have such integrated, multi-cultural schools and universities...
For many Kiwi's, one of the first reactions to the attacks was that all that would be over now. And some things will change, and already have, but what struck me most, is how this awful, senseless and cowardly deed, has actually brought this country together. Massive demonstrations against racism and xenophobia, vigils where 10's of 1000's show their respect and solidarity, a sweeping new ban on firearms that came just six days after the shooting (what a stark contrast to the political stalemate in the US), student societies who offer a taxi and escort service to Muslim women, hardened gang members talking about love and offering protection, etc., etc.
I found some pictures of beret wearers, but it doesn't feel right to publish these here and now. For once from me, some different headgear; our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in hijab (top) and this fantastic symbolic photo of Constable Michelle Evans in hijab with a rifle and rose outside the Christchurch Memorial Park Cemetery, as victims of the mosque shootings are buried.