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 ...

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.

Its headwear, which is hand-crafted in France and elsewhere in Europe, includes Panamas, felt hats, berets and top hats ... in new window ] [ The Irish man who bought a home in the US after ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army said Monday that it was abandoning the beret, after a failed 10-year experiment. The black beret, which proved deeply unpopular with American soldiers, will be replaced ...

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 ...

In Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France’s “Basque Beret Capital”, one company, the House of Laulhere, lays claim to being the oldest producer of the flat cap, turning them out for nearly 200 years.

At the menswear shows in Paris, the accessories games were divided along national lines, with cowboy boots and baseball caps on one end; ankle boots and chic berets on the other. Which of the two ...

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 ...

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 ...