wore a signature blue beret while winning Wimbledon twice; Hemingway, Picasso, Fellini and others appropriated the working-class cap for artists worldwide; Gillespie and other Europhilic jazzmen ...

MEN IN berets are not rarities in my neighborhood. Sure, I live in New York, a city amenable to characters who think nothing of wearing a petite, pancake-shaped cap associated with mimes.

berets (which were not yet known as berets, but simply felt hats) had effectively permeated Europe's farming and artist classes (read: the poorest classes). But then, the 1800s happened.

The survey was illustrated with graphics and illustrations of workers in the different sections, with the artist wearing a beret and sporting a moustache. Jeremy Nguyen, a cartoonist for the New ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Army is ditching the hot, ill-fitting black wool berets ... the caps can be worn for everyday duties. Another switch will be a return to dressier uniforms for Army men and ...

After 10 years of complaints, the Army is all but ditching the black wool beret and allowing soldiers to go back to the old brimmed patrol cap for their ... for Army men and women inside the ...