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Blonde Girl With Big Breasts Wearing A Black Top And The Beret At The Window
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• As uniform headgear
The beret's practicality has long made it an item of European military clothing. It has often become a part of the uniform of soldiers, both informally and formally; a practise that has, in recent times, been copied around the world (Military beret and Uniform beret). Among a few well known historic examples are the Scottish soldiers, who wore the blue bonnet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Volontaires Cantabres, a French force raised in the Basque country in the 1740s to the 1760s, who also wore a blue beret, and the Carlist rebels, with their red berets, in 1830s Spain.
• In fashion and culture
The beret is part of the long-standing stereotype of the intellectual, film director, artist, "hipsters", poet, bohemians and beatniks. In America and Britain, the middle of the twentieth century saw an explosion of berets in women's fashion. In the later part of the twentieth century, the beret was adopted by the Chinese both as a fashion statement and for its political undertones.
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