Shall we make the Newsboy cap great again?

[themechanic]

I wasn't including those when I made my statement in post 58. If I recall, the berets special forces had an emblem or something that stood vertical. I am referring to the French style without any front or back & might have a loop to hang it from something. I just never liked them, even on special forces or a Geen Beret folks. They just look cheap!

I didn't mean to imply you included them.

The move to berets for everyone was quite controversial back then. Especially, to those who earned the right to wear a beret as a badge of honor.

I wouldn't wear a beret but some people look good in one.

 

[SteveSS]

I had a girlfriend that looked good in a beret. I looked her up a few years ago. We got to talk a bit before she died from cancer.

 

[themechanic]

I had a girlfriend that looked good in a beret. I looked her up a few years ago. We got to talk a bit before she died from cancer.


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It was a raspberry beret.

 

[multimopes]

"The kind you'd find in a secondhand store". Thanks Prince Mince!

 

[kiwigtx]

If three men are naked together in a tub, they are gay.

...or submariners.

 

[Budnicks]

A little to metrosexual for my liking/taste
When I 1st bought my
73 v12 XK E Type Jaguar British racing green
saddle tan leather interior
tan droptop
I bought an "obligatory" cotton/wool blend Houndstooth, "brits rally cap"
(I went thru a period of liking & buying different sportscars, many British)
& my youngest sister got me a leather version,
she thought was funny even
(freaken' as all f--k, like as much as assless chaps would be, in a gay bar),
no freaken' way I was wearing that sh-t, ever
it's not me at all, not even driving a British Icon, that ain't happenen'
she spent a good $$ on it too, like $50+ (?), she gave me the receipt so I could return it...
I took it back to store where she got it, in Concord Sun Valley mall
I got a nice Raiders Jersey that will actually use/wear

The cotton/wool houndstooth nice 'brits rally cap' it was called, I had bought
I think, I got it at the local Jaguar dealership, place I had to buy parts from
it wasn't cheap either, nothing at a Jaguar dealership is
it wasn't really good in any situation either, didn't stay on well while driving either
it'd poof up a bunch too

it's not a real USA thing
not many men here wear them, not that I see
I think it's more foreign taste deal, European fashion maybe

It useless, in ANY WINDS, so unless I turned it backwards, looked even more goofy IMO
threw it in a back of the car/behind the seat & never wore it again,
went with the car, when sold

I think I wore it golfing 'one time' on Halloween tourney, at the club as 'a joke'
wore nickers & argyle socks too, with white & black golf shoes
The no bill to block glare or the sun, joke was on me, it's useless, bad decision again...
I went most the round without a hat & just wore my sunglasses...

I could do that with a ballcap/truckers cap, fitted cap
It's just not for me/my likings, at all

Yeah, sort of kept the sun off my head, while top down
but no bill to block the sun, like a reg ball cap, I prefer...
I don't wear hats inside so a ballcap, was never any issue for me
I rarely wear hats unless golfing, especially now, I got like 50 of them already,
from about 50 different courses...

I tried it's not for me, at all

to each their own

 

[Budnicks]

That girl on page 1 with that grey tweed one, looks pretty good
doesn't work for me thought

 

[Photon440]

Stallone

Brad Pitt

Robert Redford

Johnny Depp

George Clooney

Daniel Craig

Sean Connery

Patrick Stewart

Jason Statham

 

[Fran Blacker]

OK SO ! Not for me.

 

[Kern Dog]

Stallone
Brad Pitt
Robert Redford
Johnny Depp
George Clooney
Daniel Craig
Sean Connery
Patrick Stewart
Jason Statham

Yeah, and every one of them would look better with no hat at all instead of the dork cap.
Except Clooney...that jerkoff looks stupid no matter what he is wearing.

 

[Belvedere408]

I didn't mean to imply you included them.

The move to berets for everyone was quite controversial back then. Especially, to those who earned the right to wear a beret as a badge of honor.

I wouldn't wear a beret but some people look good in one.

General Shinseki brought the berets back for all the soldiers 2001. Black was for most, red airborne, tan Rangers, and green SF. I also hated wearing them.

 

[Coelacanth]

This is probably my least favorite kind of hat. If you wear one, you must be...an artiste.

 

[Pecos Bill]

This is probably my least favorite kind of hat. If you wear one, you must be...an artiste.

You're thinking of the French beret:

 

[c body convert]

am I the only one here old enough to remember them as Stroker McGurk hats?

 

[Coelacanth]

They look a heck of a lot better than a cheap baseball cap worn backwards. View attachment 1917464

Here's my take on ballcaps-worn-backwards: If you're doing this and you're over the age of, say, 30...you're trying too hard to appear young and cool. It's not a good look for a mature man.

 

[Pecos Bill]

Here's my take on ballcaps-worn-backwards: If you're doing this and you're over the age of, say, 30...you're trying too hard to appear young and cool. It's not a good look for a mature man.

A ball cap backwards is better than a manbun any day.

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Coelacanth]

A ball cap backwards is better than a manbun any day.

No argument from me. I shave my head bald, so maybe my "hair" looks like a man bun...unbaked dough perhaps?

 

[SteveSS]

The picture of Binnie when she was wearing the beret was after we broke up when she was a Paris fashion model for several years, I thought I was hot **** and didn't treat her very well. Later I realized she was one my true loves.