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Peaked Cap: for people who don't dare to wear a beret

Monday, April 6, 2009

Different berets, different people

 Gauchos, South American descendants of the Basques, still wearing their berets. Most of these are made in Argentina (Tolosa Tupida) or Uruguay and come in a huge range of colours, felted or knitted, wool or cotton.
 Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, president of Argentina
 Ché Guevara, one of the most iconic wearers of a beret
 The archetypical symbol of France, next to the bottle of red wine and the baquette
 Carlist beret, Zumalacarregui
Beret And Boina at 2:13 PM

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Daan Kolthoff is a writer, living between the hills of Wellington, New Zealand and, when not writing, meditating or walking the hills, he is usually researching, reading about or ordering berets from around the world.
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