French production of the iconic wool hats—as synonymous with France as escargot or body odor—is in serious decline. Whereas France in the 1980s produced several million berets a year, last ...

Hats off to the beret! 03:14 An age-old feature of French fashion is new again, according to David Turecamo -- Our Man In Paris: In the South of France is a small museum dedicated to a hat: the Beret.

PARIS — Laulhere, a 174-year-old beret- maker, is fighting to keep the quintessential French headgear French. Laulhere became the country’s sole maker of traditional berets after it recently ...

Crochet cotton; Sequins & much more. ... "Che Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary, wore a beret. It was also worn by the French during the second world war as a symbol of resistance.

But today, the last of the French beret makers is struggle to hold on. Laulhere, the country’s only maker of traditional berets, has been in business for 174 years.

Why berets are the French-girl accessory everyone will be wearing this winter. France’s unofficial national accessory is making a sartorial comeback. Sarah Jones. Saturday 07 October 2017 17:11 BST.

BERETS REPRESENT three things I’ve always aspired to be: French, chic and confident. The first is a lost cause, given my Italian heritage and American upbringing. I’m working on the latter two.

It was a day of great British brands at the London Collections: Men today, but the designers behind them were clearly feeling a bit French. Berets abounded at Margaret Howell and YMC, two ...

From striped tops, to berets, to ballerina flats, this week on French Connections we discuss which clothes are iconically French. We dive into the history of some of these sartorial splendours, as ...

The French man in a beret, riding a bicycle and carrying onions was actually a fairly common sight all across Great Britain from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. French Onion Johnnies.