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Cindy Gallop's avatar

As someone who absolutely ADORES anchovies, I COULD NOT LOVE THIS POST MORE 😂

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Diego's avatar

Love that metaphor. And yes, with the right outfit, a beret can indeed be great, as all of your examples show. (You’re right, older people usually look amazing in them.) I have fleece berets in a couple of colors that Paa came out with back in 2020. Do I second guess myself sometimes when I catch a glimpse in the mirror? Sure. But other times, they feel great and really add something.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

wow totally memoryholed the paa berets, good call

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Diego's avatar

Yeah, they’re just the right balance of traditional and sporty. The pull on the back is my favorite detail.

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J.'s avatar

Years ago, I bought a vintage beret and have literally only worn it once, but it was a great look. Now it sits in my closet, waiting for me to come back around.

Okay, I just tried it on and it's too small to go around my locs. Maybe I can size up... or cut my hair.... my point is, you've inspired me to try again.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

hope we can figure out a way to make this work 🔥

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easypeeler's avatar

This has come at the perfect time. I purchased a xenia telunts snug scarf bucket hat last year and have really struggled to work it into my daily outfits and often feel like a fraud in it. Temperatures on Saturday forced me into wearing it on the cold foggy london streets and i was certainly getting some looks but really enjoyed pushing it. anyway its good to know everyone feels this way

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taiBOBBI's avatar

Of course older people favour berets: the older you get, the more relentlessly practical (it saves precious energy!). Berets keep your head warm and can be stuffed in any tailored jacket's hip pocket, unlike a lot of peaked caps. And unlike a beanie they won't leave the imprint of a knitted rib all across your high, slack-skinned forehead. Plus they can enhance your presence above the neckline long after your hair has betrayed and abandoned you.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

You make some great points but: “high and slack skinned forehead??” Chill ! 😅

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Eric Marth's avatar

My friends, it appears that Ferrara is wearing a fedora in this picture? He looks great, but no beret, I say. When I zoom I see a wide brim, and a clear fedora emerges in cross referenced Cannes photos from the same year. The guy to his right (our left) is without question topping up with a beret.

I think Alex is riding a Rivendell Rambouillet in the clip, not that he doesn't have a fine-ass Sequoia! No one dresses better on a bike, have to wonder how he keeps the grease off the pants.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

1. Interesting. But no matter what you think a camera actually captured on that day, and no matter what other images from different angles may or may not reveal, unknowable cosmic forces more vast and powerful than any of us want us, here and now, to perceive that image as capturing Abel Ferrara in a beret. I don’t make the rules

2. Alex may be himself mistaken but i asked him prepublication what bike he’s riding in that video and he told us sequoia

In conclusion: Fact Check appreciated but REBUFFED on both counts 😉

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John Perrin's avatar

I'm sorry but you'll have to fight me to take my propeller hat away from me.

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Blackbird Spyplane's avatar

😳

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Lin Sanchez's avatar

I’m a hat lover, not limited to berets. Your graphic left out my favorite, the cowgirl hat!

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Benjamin Nehammer's avatar

Spike Lee goes heavy on the berets as well, and rocks them in ways I feel only Spike Lee could. He does sometime look assuredly goofy wearing them, but I've always felt they served as deliberately soft reminders of the kind of heartfelt political resistance he embodies.

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Clifford BIG RED Champagne's avatar

Ive been wearing the same grey wool kangol 507 for almost a decade now, love that hat. agree that even kangols to my dismay can be slightly costume esque, id agrue that kangol specifically has transcended the costume vibe and is a alternative but mainstay option. and sorry not sorry, but the backwards kangol is a bad look every time.

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