You know the small hat you always see artists and, well, French people in general wearing. The French beret originated in ... Mark is Irish, and is part of the new management team that took ...

Think "beret" and an image ... evolved into a flat, floppy hat made of wool. Although the shape and size of this hat varied as it popped up in other parts of Europe between 400 B.C. and the ...

French production of the iconic wool hats — as synonymous with France ... Silicon Valley to talk tech The problem is in part price. Berets imported from the Czech Republic, from India and ...

The vibe: The original French beret hat for women is undoubtedly the crème de la crème. It's best worn perched at the top of your head or tilted to one side, and and is typically made of felted ...

PARIS — Laulhere, a 174-year-old beret- maker ... Based in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, where the round and flat woolen hat was invented by shepherds to protect themselves from the ...

Farm workers, philosophers and gamines winking astride their bicycles made the beret an icon of French life ... "They were cheaper than the formal hats that the bourgeois wore.

Cheap in construction, the hat was a military staple in the 1950s and 60s. After the U.S. Army's Special Forces adopted green berets, the look soon spread throughout the world. Traditional French ...