1951 - A Good Year for Berets!

Near Biarritz. August 1951. A village festival.

Emile Delobre, Self Portrait in Beret (1951)

1951, the wedding of René Baudorre-Laplume and Anna Aguer d’Esquiule

Herbert Fiedler in his studio, Beulingstraat 25, Amsterdam. By Jo Bokma, 1951

Paddington Station by Toni Frissell, 1951

In a café in Lorraine, 1951

Gendarmes of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre Company - 1951

Bonetaire 57

20 February - another milestone in my life, as from today, I can say I'm 57 years old.

Sticking to the text my daughter secretly posted many birthdays ago, I'd say MAKE MY DAY, BUY A BERET!

Ricardo Carballo Calero

Ricardo Carballo Calero (1910 - 1990) was a Galician philologist, academic and writer.

He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a member of the Royal Galician Academy, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Galician Language Association.

He was one of the main theorists of contemporary Galician reintegrationism and his works on this field are considered a primary reference. Many consider Carballo Calero as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century Galician intelligentsia.

Beret Sketches

1950 - A Good Year For Berets!

Paris, 1950, by Kees Scherer

Peggy Cummins in "Gun Crazy", 1950

Victor Nicolas (1906-1979) in his studio at Montmeyan, 1950

Unloading a cart full of bull manure at the foot of a meadow.Andorra, 1950

Coca Cola comes to France, 1950

Moose hunt in Sweden, 1950

Guernsey, 1950

1949 - A Good Year For Berets!

Workers on a peat boat, Hungary, 1949

No title, by Seydou Keïta, 1949

Breakfast in Paris, 31 Jan. 1949

'Joueurs de Boules', 1949

Ella Raines, 1949

Hungary, 1949

1948 - A Good Year For Berets!

Basque dancers in New York, 1948

Dizzy Gillespie in 1948, patenting the avant garde jazzman look and paving the way for the early 1950s beatnik style

Jacques Lipchitz at the World Art Center - photo by Stanley Kubrick 1948

Mnon Gar people, Indo-China, 1948

Fisherman in Spain, 1948

Graeme Bell (wearing a beret) with Pixie Roberts and brother Roger on trumpet in 1948.

Dutch Painter Herbert Fiedler, Self portrait in café, 1948

1947 - A Good Year For Berets!

Kids working in construction, Asturias, Spain. By  José Luis Vega

Kids in Paris, 1947, by Robert Doisneau

Kids, 1947 by Louis Stettner

The back to school fashion look, August 1947

Haifa, Palestine, 1947

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Scotland, 1947

1946 - A Good Year For Berets!

Ed Clark as a young artist paints Sacré-Coeur from the ancient Rue Norvins in Montmartre - Paris 1946

Beat poet Royston Ellis, age 5, 1946

Jennifer Jones with Charles Boyer in Cluny Brown (1946, by Ernst Lubitsch)

Renzo Vespignani, 1946

Smallholder Mrs. H. Young, of Ashton Under Hill, harvests seeds from her sunflowers. The seeds are distributed throughout the country to be sold as bird feed. Worcestershire, England, October 1946.

Bottling Wine in Bordeaux, 1946 (Life magazine)

Jos Lussenburg, member of the Nunspeet Male Choir, Netherlands, 1946

Roy Ellis

Jamaican artist Roy Ellis, aka Mr. Symarip, sold over 7.000.000 copies of his classic Skinhead Moonsop album since 1969 on Trojan Records and is still kicking. 

In 1966 he was discovered by the “Godfather of Ska”, Laurel Aitken, who wrote 2 songs: ‘Jesse James Rides Again’ and ‘Because I Love You’, and produced a bunch of other hits for them.

The most successful Jamaican foundation artist alive, since he came back to the stages in 2006; he has released 6 albums in 3 different continents and played all around the world including Japan, Mexico, USA, Colombia, Argentina and of course all around Europe.