are beret hats fashionable?

if so, what do parisian girls wear beret hats with? pinstripes? stockings?

i%26#39;m curious :-)

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You might want to re-ask your question in the current %26quot;hats%26quot; thread. I think all the millinery energy is probably being burned up there!

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eclectic --

Probably a warm coat and scarf - I have seen hats on girls in Paris only in cold weather. The rest of the time they like to show off their fabulous haircuts.

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You can see girls with a béret, but i wouldn%26#39;t call it %26quot;fashionable%26quot;

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awww, come on, raphy, girls are fashionable no matter what they wear... the fashion is in how they wear it, eh? *grin*

M

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Unless your a small girl, named Madeline traveling with a group of uniformed school children or an old man pedaling an rusty old bicycle with a fresh baguette and bottle of wine in the basket--NO.

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I understand that the locals were wearing berets alot during the most recent wintertime so I guess it was in fashion for that time.

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You see them a lot on elderly gentlemen in the countryside playing petanque.

Les

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KDKSAIL - I saw loads of Parisians in berrets this winter. Presumaby because it was damn cold !

First time I%26#39;ve ever seen them notably though apart from on old men playing Petanque in the countryside

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A woman who moved to study in Paris temporarily corresponds with me and she%26#39;s the one who told me that berets were worn exceptionally this past winter by the locals. She said it was very cold so as well as a fashion statement the beret seems to be worn for practicality also.

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I have been in France twice these two years.

I was in Paris twice and in Bordeaux.when there i only saw people wearing Berets twice.

Iwas in the Avenue de Mars i think its called

beside the Eiffle Tower there was three Paramilitary Police in Military Fatiques with

machine guns and one with Radio on back and they had berets.When i was down in Bordeaux

there was four or five old men with biggish

floppy berets and badges i think they were old

Soldiers celebrating the 11 world war.I have

never seen anybody else in france with Berets.

The only people i have seen are in old STYLE

Movies set in france,featuring Audry Hephburn

usually.When i visited Brussels recently at

the Tomb of the unknown soldier on Rue Royal

there was some old Soldiers wearing Berets.

Apart from the odd girl in Ireland or England

wearing Berets or some old person the Fashion

has died out,only reserved for national holidays,or Telivision Shows like Allo ALLO

lampooning the French,English,Germans,in the

Second world war,they still show re runs of this very funny show.