Berets, Anyone?

[alanfgag]

Can your beret ever be too big or too bold? My wife and I might have to agree to disagree on that one...

 

[Okay]

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Can your beret ever be too big or too bold? My wife and I might have to agree to disagree on that one...

Wow Alan, that's really something!
I like it.

How big is it?
It took me a while to get used to my winter beret, a Chasseur Alpin at 33 cm, and that appears to be somewhat larger.

Michael

 

[alanfgag]

Wow Alan, that's really something!
I like it.

How big is it?
It took me a while to get used to my winter beret, a Chasseur Alpin at 33 cm, and that appears to be somewhat larger.

Michael

Thank you... Daan posted about this hat a page back in this thread. It measures a tad over 35cm.

 

[JimK]

I was out on a camping trip recently, with my Cataluna beret. Someone at the campground mistook me for Daan! He wasn't wearing a beret though!

 

[Daan]

I was out on a camping trip recently, with my Cataluna beret. Someone at the campground mistook me for Daan! He wasn't wearing a beret though!
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Ha! I do see some likeness alright! Alas, the time that my beard was thát impressive, is a good while ago now.
The outdoors are, of course, the place where the beret's qualities come out best. A good trigger to dig into my photo files.

Above two Chasseurs Alpins, wearing their standard navy wool 'Tarte', inside a cotton cover in white.
Below, cooking in the outdoors - with beret, of course.

Who needs a tent when wearing a wool beret?

Happy hikers:

James Walker Tucking captured the spirit of 'outdoors & beret' beautifully:

Hiking and cycling...

 

[JimK]

A month earlier, and several degrees of latitude further from the equator, setting up the tent meant pounding stakes through ice. With an Elosegui...

 

[Dated Guy]

I live in G.B. for my sins, I had an abiding need years ago to wear a Fedora hat. After a while of banging on about it, I purchased one in Dark Green, I still wear it amongst all the other ones I now own. For some reason that I cannot fathom, I recently desired a beret. Not having too much cash, I perused the net, but I found one at an ex-military shop, not a couple of hundred yards from where the Dark Green fedora was purchased. This beret is also darkish green, brand new, make unnoticed by me, I still cannot be bothered to look to be honest.
I purchased it mainly to wear as a head warmer in the workshop. Now I am retired, I spend a lot of time out there, so it made sense to me. I found out about all the soaking it, shaping it etc by my wife taking the p*** with my older brother-in-law. He once guarded Rudolph Hess in Spandau when he was in the Army. He told me how to do it, but the idea of wearing a dripping 'titfer' did not appeal, so I did the required treatment and hung it in the sun, draped around a similarly sized plastic football to my noggin. It worked a treat, and now wear it out in public as well.
I was going to install a cap badge of an elephant to pay respect to my Paternal grandfather who was in the 19th Hussars during the second Boer War, but I gave that idea up eventually. Instead I have an iron on 'Anarchy' badge. This gets a lot of questions, all quite suitable and encouraging to my way of thinking.
It keeps my head as warm as toast (it is lined), it fails to catch on stuff dangling from the roof etc, plus, I can leave it laid on the bench edge, so that it keeps its shape 100%.
I love wearing hats, once any self-consciousness is passed (this occurred years ago now), then I am very happy to be seen in what is a more or less hatless society. I hope hat wearing really comes back like it was once, but.......

 

[Héctor Fernández]

The only time I was able to pull off wearing a beret was when I was in the Army while serving in an Airborne unit.

 

[alanfgag]

I was out on a camping trip recently, with my Cataluna beret. Someone at the campground mistook me for Daan! He wasn't wearing a beret though!
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Great photos, JimK!

 

[Okay]

The only time I was able to pull off wearing a beret was when I was in the Army while serving in an Airborne unit.

Hector, truly no one is going to tell you you're wearing a silly hat, when you are carrying a machine gun.
I dare say you could pull off wearing a traditional beret of your own choosing, outside the theatre of war.

It's as easy as finding one you like, plopping it on your head and walking out the door.

Michael

 

[Nico]

Nice cool autumn day in Orange NSW. Perfect weather for a mid weight beret. The Laulhere XV Rugby beret fits the bill perfectly.

 

[Bouwerij_Jongen]

Wearing my cotton Tolosa Tupida on a windy sunny day in Minerve located in the Languedoc region of the south of France where in 1210 Catholic knights massacred the heretical Christian Cathars.

 

[Bouwerij_Jongen]

Outside our hotel which is an old Chateua in Couiza France in Langedoc region of France.
Wearing a Elosegui Super Lujo Grande in Morado.

 

[Bouwerij_Jongen]

Wearing the Elosegui Ano 150 in the Parque National Aiguestortes I Estany De Sant Maurici in the Spanish Pyrennes.
Glad for the warmth of the Ano 150.

Next stop near the. south end of the Vielha Tunnel. During WW2 Frencb refugees and Allied airmen climbed the mountain passes into this area.
Even though this area is south of the Pyrennes divide it is part of Occitaine, thus wearing the Occitaine cross coat of arms.

 

[Nico]

Getting cooler in the southern hemisphere. Wearing the Czech Classic Mammoth today.

 

[Bouwerij_Jongen]

Great day in Barcelona at la Sagrada Familia to wear an Elosegui Super Lujo Grande in Burdeo Mexico.
Berets are about as common ias unicorns in Occitaine and Catalonia.

 

[Bouwerij_Jongen]

Beards and berets have been a long time theme.
The painting "Man in a beret" by Pablo Picasso from 1895 at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

 

[alanfgag]

 

[Fedster]

A curious question: what is the most common headband used by gauchos, leather or felt? I assume it is a matter or preference but also custom, so I am curious.

Since people have their own preferences about this issue (and not just this), and might confuse a question with a statement of merit, at no point I mean to imply one solution is better than the other

 

[Nico]

Last day of autumn here in Australia. Enjoying the sunny day. Wearing the Basco Roma.