Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE BERET might just be the world's most useful hat. Far from a mere circle of felt clinging precariously to the head, it can be ...

The beret has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the headgear of choice for pelota players in the Basque country, becoming a must-have accessory as far afield as China. The beret has come ...

PARIS – The classic men’s Basque beret is the hit hat of the season. Women are wearing them, on both the streets and the runways of the fall fashion showings. Designers are decorating the berets with ...

Think "beret" and an image of a cool-looking French woman who looks like Brigitte Bardot might pop into your head. She's smoking a cigarette and/or eating a baguette. It's raining, and she's wearing a ...

Could the Basque beret – which ranks alongside the accordion, baguette and Citroën 2CV as one of the caricatural symbols of France – be making a sartorial comeback? One of France’s last remaining ...

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I've only ever gotten out of one traffic ticket, and I am convinced it was because I was wearing a beret. I was 18, zooming through my hometown in my 1975 Oldsmobile well past midnight with late-night ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. No headwear has forged such a singular identity as the beret. Rembrandt wore a floppy oversized number; Fidel Castro ...

The beret has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the headgear of choice for pelota players in the Basque country, becoming a must-have accessory as far afield as China. The jaunty topper ...