Berets, Anyone?

[NoHorse]

Nico

The Therapeutic Effect of Berets... I trust it's on the homeopathic principle: the smaller the beret, the stronger the effect

Get well!

 

[Daan]

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Just had my knee surgery today.
Wearing my Laulhere rugby beret and waiting therapeutic qualities to kick in.

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Ah, that looks very familiar... If Canberra is anything like Wellington this winter day, you chose the right time to sit inside with a beret on your head and a good pile of books at your side. Be well soon!

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[foamy]

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Just had my knee surgery today.
Wearing my Laulhere rugby beret and waiting therapeutic qualities to kick in.

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My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.

 

[Nico]

My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.

Foamy, working through my beret collection on the theory each beret has different healing/ pain control properties . When I am up and about I will model my latest beret acquisition a green Les Heritage.

Thanks for the best wishes everyone.

 

[Nico]

5th day post surgery. Using a cane to help with my mobility.
Went outside for some fresh air wearing my Laulhere Les Heritage green 10p beret.
An excellent mid weight beret. Thanks South Pacific Berets/Daan.

 

[NoHorse]

Oh what have I started...

You know, you could move to the Bay Area in California and open an institute of Beret Healing. There could be courses, 'approved' healing berets, and annual conventions (in New Zealand, of course).

 

[Nico]

Oh what have I started...

You know, you could move to the Bay Area in California and open an institute of Beret Healing. There could be courses, 'approved' healing berets, and annual conventions (in New Zealand, of course).

NoHorse, I think its great that we can have a bit of fun. . It certainly makes me feel better.

 

[Daan]

The beret as we know it today has it's origins in the French Béarn, but the beret has been invented many times over. The old Greeks wore hats that resemble berets in a variety of colours; Roman legionnaires wore beret-shaped brown woolen felt caps and the Macedonians wore the kausia, again a very similar hat to the present day beret. Moors, Albanians and Azeris had their own kinds of felted hats and many more examples of beret-like hats can be found on Sardinia, in Denmark, Austria and many more places where people kept sheep and needed protection from sun and cold.

Mostly, these hats were made and further developed by mountain people, shepherds herding their sheep on high mountain pastures, spending weeks and months on end in isolated huts during the nights of the grazing season and keeping themselves occupied with knitting and felting wool.

The traditional felt hats from Georgia, generally referred to as "Kakhetian hats", are really from Tusheti, a small and almost inaccessible region in the high Caucasus Mountains, bordering Chechnya and Dagestan in the north and Kakheti in the east.

Unchanged for many centuries, these hats are still made according to local tradition and with skilled craftsmanship. Hats always were the most important element of traditional Georgian garments. Apart from everyday use, these hats were worn by warriors under their steel helmets, to soften the blows by swords.

The Kakhetian felt hats are made from hand-pressed heavy felt and decorated with a cross shaped string - not a Christian symbol, but from a much older pre-Christian period, symbolizing the connection between humans and the universe.

Untreated, natural wool, available in white and black.

 

[RJR]

The beret as we know it today has it's origins in the French Béarn, but the beret has been invented many times over. The old Greeks wore hats that resemble berets in a variety of colours; Roman legionnaires wore beret-shaped brown woolen felt caps and the Macedonians wore the kausia, again a very similar hat to the present day beret. Moors, Albanians and Azeris had their own kinds of felted hats and many more examples of beret-like hats can be found on Sardinia, in Denmark, Austria and many more places where people kept sheep and needed protection from sun and cold.

Mostly, these hats were made and further developed by mountain people, shepherds herding their sheep on high mountain pastures, spending weeks and months on end in isolated huts during the nights of the grazing season and keeping themselves occupied with knitting and felting wool.

The traditional felt hats from Georgia, generally referred to as "Kakhetian hats", are really from Tusheti, a small and almost inaccessible region in the high Caucasus Mountains, bordering Chechnya and Dagestan in the north and Kakheti in the east.

Unchanged for many centuries, these hats are still made according to local tradition and with skilled craftsmanship. Hats always were the most important element of traditional Georgian garments. Apart from everyday use, these hats were worn by warriors under their steel helmets, to soften the blows by swords.

The Kakhetian felt hats are made from hand-pressed heavy felt and decorated with a cross shaped string - not a Christian symbol, but from a much older pre-Christian period, symbolizing the connection between humans and the universe.

Untreated, natural wool, available in white and black.

Interesting info.

 

[Daan]

Presently on SPECIAL are Laulhère's bérets bayadère and Basque Authentique. The Basque Authentique is one of the oldest beret labels continuously in production (with the Vrai Basque and Pedrito labels) and has always been the staple quality beret by Laulhère; no frills medium weight merino wool beret with lining and leather headband.

The only change over the decades is the added "made in France by Laulhère" to the label (branding is everything, these days...).

The bayadère berets are different; new models that got their inspiration from the interbellum's roaring twenties; the "années folles" ("crazy years"); Parisian jazz clubs and a hunger in people to express themselves, shed off the old conformative shells of society.

Berets from that era typically were fitted with beautiful multi-coloured satin linings; a tradition that was followed well into the 1960s. These were called bayadères.

The term bayadère has two meanings: "dancer", from the Portuguese "bailadeira", and "fabric in striped, bright colours". The bayadère berets come in a variety of these multi-coloured linings (named Saint Jean and Isturitz), similar to those berets of the era that are now showcased in museums. One nice example is the beret of Che Guevara, pictured here with Arsenio Garcia Davila (a combatant with Fidel Castro and survivor of the 1956 landing of the Granma in Cuba. He owns Ché Guevara's original beret and pipe).

 

[Nico]

My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.

Hi Foamy and fellow boineros.
Wearing my Auloronesa beret toady and on the home stretch to full recovery,.
Hopefully back to work in a couple weeks.

 

[foamy]

Hi Foamy and fellow boineros.
Wearing my Auloronesa beret toady and on the home stretch to full recovery,.
Hopefully back to work in a couple weeks.

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Now that's what I like to hear and you wear the Auloronesa very well. I can feel the positive energy from here. Those berets just sit well, don't they? That, and they do make you feel good. I don't know why.

Thanks for the good news, it's a great way to start the day. Carry on.

 

[RJR]

Now that's what I like to hear and you wear the Auloronesa very well. I can feel the positive energy from here. Those berets just sit well, don't they? That, and they do make you feel good. I don't know why.

Thanks for the good news, it's a great way to start the day. Carry on.

+1,very happy for you.

 

[Nico]

Today wearing one of my coloured Auloronesa on this glorious sunny winters day.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Nico

Hell, yeah!!

 

[Yarbles]

If there is one contemporary painter I really like, it is the self-made author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer, guitarist and above all: painter Steven John Hamper, aka Billy Childish.

His works have a quality that I find hard to describe; raw, real, naive, honest are some of the words that come up.

His output is extraordinary prolific, be it in writing, music or painting. He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression. He isknown for his explicit and prolific work – he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse.

Childish was born, lives and works in Chatham, Kent, England. Although he had an early and close association with many of the artists who became known as "Young British Artists", he has resolutely asserted his independent status.

Needless to say, Billy Childish is an avid beret wearer.

I spy Eichenlaubmuster in that 2nd pic.

 

[foamy]

Today wearing one of my coloured Auloronesa on this glorious sunny winters day.

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Very nice. I've been eyeing those for a while.

 

[Daan]

From today, at South Pacific Berets: Bleu de Travail!

Bleu de Travail translates as ‘Working Blues’ and is a catch all for the indigo-dyed cotton workwear popularised by French factory workers from the late 1800s. Bleu de Travail stands for jackets, shirts, or trousers, but when we talk about the Bleu de Travail today, it’s usually just the jacket. Simple, distinctive and hard-wearing; denim/jeans’ ancestor.

Bleu de Travail has become very fashionable over the last 10-15 years; hip fashion stores in Tokyo, NYC and London charging up to $350.00 for a jacket.
South Pacific Berets orders these jackets from established, old time suppliers and sells at a much more reasonable and realistic price. Worldwide demand means shortages in supply and stock numbers are relatively low, but we restock, add and change as often as possible.

Follow the new (work)-daily blog.

 

[Daan]

The new South Pacific Berets Newsletter is out! Bleu de Travails, Kakhetian Mountain Hats from Georgia and the brand new boinas Exposición Super Lujo -Grande among other news.

If you're not a subscriber, read it here. Meanwhile, I may have to reconsider what I call my favourite beret...

 

[foamy]

You're getting quite a line-up going Daan. Very nice. The Super Lujo–Grande comes in an interesting size and I like the colors. Hmm.