Do French People Really Wear Berets?

do French people really wear berets?

 

Do French people really wear berets?

Hardly.

Though if they are wearing one while driving… watch out.

Berets and driving don't equal a good thing.

I don't know why, so don't ask okay.

But it is true.

 

Red beret paris

 

I bought some berets for fun. And told my fam-dang-ly  

Let's be French.

They rolled their eyes, "We are French."

Actually to delight me they put on the berets. Using the shop window as a mirror. Sacha is studying cinema, this sort of thing is up his alley… staging.

I would have been embarrassed at their age, but they were not. Are French ever embarrassed? I don't think so. Again it is just my observation.

 

 

Place de la concorde paris

 

Place de la Concorde.

A perfect stage.

 

 

Dashing in a red beret

 

Sacha playing the part.

People have asked me, "Are your children more French or American?"

Well their Father is French, they were born in France, went to school in France, live in France and took summer vacations in Willows. 

 

 

Place de la concorde in paris france by corey amaro

 

Place de la Concorde in Paris. 

Next to the Crillion

in the distance, le Grande Palais

 

 

French man with a black beret

 

A Frenchman in a beret.

Growing his hair and his beard again.

Do French man have long hair and beards?

No not really, though in my world (t)he(y) do.

 

French Girlfriend

 

The French girlfriend.

Now if I can convince Chelsea's Mr. Espresso, the French boyfriend, to allow me to show his face on my blog.

But I am not holding my breath.

 

 

Place de la concorde running across

 

I asked Alice, my friend's daughter frol Australia who is staying with us, if she wanted to run across the place de la Concorde?

 

 

Place de la concorde at sunset

 

 

And before I knew it she ran across.

What spunk!

My children would have rolled their eyes at me.

I wonder if she washes windows too?

 

Running across the place de la concorde in paris 2014

 

Alice is a keeper.

 

 

To be French

 

 

People pleasers.

Berets and smiles.

Sacha hamming it up.

 

 

Frenchboy in a beret

 

French boy in a beret.

 

Alice in a beret

 

Do Australian wear berets?

 

 



Comments

31 responses to “Do French People Really Wear Berets?”

  1. Brother Mathew

    Could you find a raspberry beret in a brocante store?
    Sing that.

  2. I love that you made your family wear berets. They probably thrilled so many tourists that day. The girlfriend is lovely. I would be suspicious of Mr. Espresso. Why does he keep his face hidden? Is he friends with Edward Snowden?

  3. I bought a beret on a visit to Paris. It doesn’t keep my ears warm during a Minnesota winter… But it looks good 😉

  4. C is lovely for Sasha. We all approve 🙂
    Love the second shot of Alice running, it’s sublime.

  5. Everyone is lovely. Enjoy your wealth~!
    I’ve been given berets as gifts. My mother gave me a very nice white angora one but I never knew how to wear it with style and did not appreciate any of them.
    Your photos are beautiful and make me wistful of missed opportunities.

  6. Hi Brother Mat
    Prince! Yeah
    I was working part time in a five-and-dime
    My boss was mr. mcgee
    He told me several times that he didn’t like my kind
    Cause I was a bit 2 leisurely
    Seems that I was busy doing something close 2 nothing
    But different than the day before
    That’s when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
    She walked in through the out door, out door
    She wore a
    Raspberry beret
    The kind u find in a second hand store
    Raspberry beret
    And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more
    Raspberry beret
    I think I love her
    Built like she was
    She had the nerve 2 ask me
    If I planned 2 do her any harm
    So, look here
    I put her on the back of my bike
    And-a we went riding
    Down by old man johnsons farm
    I said now, overcast days never turned me on
    But something about the clouds and her mixed
    She wasn’t 2 bright
    But I could tell when she kissed me
    She knew how 2 get her kicks
    She wore a
    Raspberry beret
    The kind u find in a second hand store
    Raspberry beret
    And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more
    Raspberry beret
    I think I love her
    The rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof
    And the horses wonder who u are
    Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
    U feel like a movie star
    Listen
    They say the first time aint the greatest
    But I tell ya
    If I had the chance 2 do it all again
    I wouldn’t change a stroke
    Cause baby Im the most
    With a girl as fine as she was then
    (raspberry beret)
    The kind u find (the kind u find)
    The kind u find (in a second hand store)
    Oh no no
    (raspberry beret)
    (and if it was warm)
    Where have all the raspberry women gone? (she wouldn’t wear much more)
    Yeah (raspberry beret)
    I think i… I think i… I think I love her
    (raspberry beret)
    No no no
    No no no (the kind u find)
    (in a second hand store)
    (raspberry beret)
    Tell me
    Where have all the raspberry women gone? (and if it was warm she)
    (wouldnt wear much more)
    (raspberry beret)
    I think I love…
    Raspberry Beret lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

  7. Hi Paulita
    Mr. Espresso is a gem.
    🙂
    a keeper!

  8. No, Australians don’t usually wear berets but we look lovely when we do.

  9. k in Ohio

    just thot that a from australia might be s(sacha) sweet young
    hart skipping thru the streets…!
    but delighted to meet C.!!

  10. In regards to the French beret, I thought you would get a kick out of this video last video on this post about tradition: http://www.basquefarmhouseinfrance.com/2012/03/village-diaries-ritual-that-time-forgot.html
    The Basques say the beret was “invented” here and the call it a Basque Beret. Apparently during WW11 it is also how Resistance identified themselves to eachother when they did not know eachother…

  11. I think beret is for Basque;)

  12. I bought a wonderful wool black beret . I wore it during recent travel to KY. My husband did not like what it looked like on me. I think they are darling on others! You pictures prove the young look wonderful in them. I love the red! jody / fl xo

  13. beautiful children, wonderful family, you are blessed. But then you knew that.

  14. I see the beginnings of a film here. The stage is set. The actors in place. The music (Prince) thrumming in the background…..

  15. Sacha is so handsome, his GF adorable. I wonder if any American girls he met while here (states) are following you – he had to have left some broken hearts or dreams behind him back in CA. Alice is so darn cute & sweet.
    I had a beret I was supposed to bring with me when I went to Paris. The plan: selfies around Paris with my beret on. Problem – I was so entranced when I arrived, I forgot.
    Great post, thanks.

  16. Love your song.
    What beautiful faces wearing French berets!
    This post is just so fun and light hearts,
    it makes me happy.

  17. I can tell you now, Australian don’t wear berets and if you see someone wearing a beret AND driving a car….well reverse up , turn your car around and head in the opposite direction …probably for the same reasons you spoke of Corey.
    That Alice is having a Paris Ball !! No she would not do all that running around for her mother, but then she can’t run around the sights of Paris everyday. So lovely to see all your family and the fun they are having together.
    PS there have been no recorded sightings of Alice washing windows either!

  18. In a word – No! 🙁

  19. Raspberry Beret. Goodness goodness, how simply wonderful.
    And so are you children. xx’s

  20. annie vanderven

    you forgot one thing: a baguette under their arms!!!
    How many times I was told this cliche, I cant count…
    Are French people embarrassed? absolutely,but will keep the answer hidden!!that would embarrass me…
    Annie v.

  21. I don’t find berets very practical or comfortable to wear, but they sure are stylish in your lovely photos.

  22. In regards to the French beret the French themselves call it a Beret Basque.” I thought you (and especially movie making Sacha!) would get a kick out of last video on this post about tradition: http://www.basquefarmhouseinfrance.com/2012/03/village-diaries-ritual-that-time-forgot.html
    The Basques say the beret was “invented” here and France also calls it a Basque Beret. Apparently during WW11 it is also how Resistance identified themselves to eachother when they did not know eachother…

  23. In looking over your beret day photos again I remembered a Chevy Chase film from way back when…”European Vacation.” Worth a chuckle for the same subject.

  24. (¯`v´¯) ღ ☼ღஜ レo√乇♥ *.¸.* What a beautiful way to start a day!!! Hats off to you dear Corey and all of your wonderful postings and photographs. I am sure your guest will remember the memories made forever.
    Love Jeanne

  25. Karen Carson

    Your family (and significant others) are such good sports! A good sense of humor makes life so much fun! I do have to ask…that darling Alice dresses like a million bucks! Did she arrive from Australia with a steamer trunk? In every post she is wearing a different coat! Your friend Annie is right…she does dress like a French girl! Adorable!

  26. raspberry beret + love that! xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

  27. I love hats — especially berets — so glad you had your family’s cooperation wearing berets and smiling and posing and definitely looking French. When I come to France, I’m wearing a beret. Love it!

  28. this makes me smile because when I first went to France, all my friend Judy wanted me to bring home was a black beret. Do you know how hard it was to find one? Of course you do! Because I thought “They must have them at department stores?” No, they politely said. Finally I found one at an inexpensive souvenir shop. Well, inexpensive compared to the department stores. My friend and host Jerry sent me one he found at a brocante sometime later, gray and rather nice — clearly not the souvenir variety! And yes, I wear it. And Judy wears hers. But I don’t think either of us would take them to France!

  29. Why does “frenchboyfriend” not want his face on the blog?

  30. We Aussie girls don’t wear berets………..only when we are in Paris !!!
    Cory you are amazing !!
    Hugs Cookie xxx

  31. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    Tell Alice I love her shoes!
    (And Chelsea her boots in another blog post.)
    I do know that men in Kosovo wear berets — so I bought one at a market there for my husband.

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