Five Years The Beret Project

Sunday afternoon, April 5, 2009: the very first post on The Beret Project:

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Wisdom

Visera: para aquellos que no se atreven con la boina.

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

Web site Boinas Elosegui

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Five years of (almost) daily beret blogging. I recall thinking, some years ago now (like every so often ever since), how soon there would be nothing more to write about regarding berets. I have proved myself wrong, again and again. 

It really is amazing how such a humble piece of headgear, not much more than a circular shaped piece of felted wool, holds such a formidable place in history; worn by artists and scientists, revolutionaries and tyrants, pacifists and commandos, photographers, girl scouts, intellectuals of all kind and on both sides of the political divide, etc., etc.

A seemingly never ending flow of material to publish about.

Happy Birthday and let's see where we'll be in another five years!