Daan
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- Wellington, Aotearoa
One of the things I like so much about wearing a beret are the unexpected encounters with fellow boineros. Usually, it's just a friendly nod or a smile when passing a 'colleague' somewhere in the wild, but quite often this actually evolves in a chat and occasionally a chat over a coffee or a beer. Try that by wearing a ballcap...Bérets in the rough. I met this gentleman last night while at a Vietnamese restaurant. He was on one side of me and an older woman also wearing a béret was on the other side. This guy was wearing a wool military styled béret. He told me he much prefers a béret to wearing a baseball cap, but complained it's hard to find a quality béret. I told him about South Pacific Bérets and The Béret Project. We had a good chat about our lives here in Boston. He was a few years older than me but remembered (and frequented) many of the same places in town during the 1970's. Oh, and he had an amazingly strong Boston accent. LOL View attachment 104444
Of course, I'm in a bit of a unique position, selling and writing about berets, but I continue to be amazed by the contacts and often friendships I establish through berets. Many are from the other side of the world, but that hasn't stopped me from meeting some in real life, here in NZ or when I went overseas.
And to make sure you always have a beret at the ready, this week on Special 2 great berets for 1 price: the custom made Boinas Clásica, a
remake of the original Spanish berets from the 1930's. Well sized plateaus in khaki and brown; soft, shapeable merino wool berets in easy to wear one-size models, fitted with the original vintage Boinas Elósegui label.