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!
My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.
Alden 403 Moc Toe Boot - Brown Chromexcel - $680 The classic "Indy" style Alden Boot in the classic Horween brown Chromexcel. 
Grant Stone Diesel Boot Dark Olive Chromexcel - #395 Goodyear welted, Horween Chromexcel, classic good looks. 
Himel Bros. - The Ross Mk. 1 Leather Jacket Classic D-pocket motorcycle/aviator style jacket. My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.
. When I am up and about I will model my latest beret acquisition a green Les Heritage.
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).
. It certainly makes me feel better.
Interesting info.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.
My best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery there, Nico. Hey... I thought the Auloronesa was going to be the "recovery" beret.
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.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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+1,very happy for you.
I spy Eichenlaubmuster in that 2nd pic.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.
Very nice. I've been eyeing those for a while.
