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a flat circle of wool that swings between artist, soldier, and revolutionary depending on the angle
means A soft, round, flat-topped cap without a brim, traditionally made of felted wool and worn pulled to one side.
from From French béret, borrowed from the Gascon dialect word berret, which traces back to Late Latin birretum, a kind of hooded cap. The Latin is likely a cousin of birrus, a hooded woolen cloak — possibly with deeper roots in a Celtic or Gaulish word for cape or cloth. The cap itself is long associated with the shepherds of the Pyrenees, on both the French and Basque sides, before it ever climbed onto the heads of painters and soldiers.
- basque roots
- Worn by shepherds in the Pyrenees for centuries
- military green
- Color signals elite units across many armies
- che icon
- Guevara's black beret became a global protest symbol
- single piece
- Traditional ones are knit from one continuous yarn
- the cabillou
- That little stub on top is a finishing tail
french military beret — official headwear of french armed forces since 1889, iconic symbol of french army
basque beret — traditional flat-crowned beret from basque country (spain/france), originated in 16th century
green beret — headwear of us army special forces, established as distinctive insignia in 1953