The most passionate outcry against the black berets came from the Army's Ranger unit and its alumni, who have worn similar hats for the last 25 years and view it as an earned badge of honor.

The new slogan calls it an “Army of One,” but the service still needs nearly 5 million hats–berets, to be exact–and they’re going to take longer to make and cost more. The military has a ...

French revolutionaries wore the bonnet rouge. Fans of Donald Trump don MAGA baseball caps. For young activists in Africa, the red beret is de rigueur. Julius Malema, a South African firebrand ...

The existence of the beret in high fashion couldn’t be a further cry from the charming hat’s humble beginnings. Berets were traditionally worn by male shepherds of the Pyrénées.