: a visorless usually woolen cap with a tight headband and a soft full flat top
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Oh, okay, Carrie is so back in this little Thanksgiving beret and pink glitter dress!
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2025
The garments’ layered, preppy lines drew on British know-how through collaborations with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard and milliner Stephen Jones for berets.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
In a race that includes a former governor and incumbent mayor with national reputations, a socialist frontrunner, and a combative former mayoral candidate toting a red beret, Walden’s relatively low-key temperament has seen his presence in the campaign diminished by his rivals.
—Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
Think crochet dresses, chiffon shawls in sorbet hues, berets, coiffed afros, mixed prints, Studio 54-esque jumpsuits, beaded braids à la Patrice Rushen, and men dressed like Barkley Hendricks paintings.
—Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2025
The garments’ layered, preppy lines drew on British know-how through collaborations with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard and milliner Stephen Jones for berets.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
In a race that includes a former governor and incumbent mayor with national reputations, a socialist frontrunner, and a combative former mayoral candidate toting a red beret, Walden’s relatively low-key temperament has seen his presence in the campaign diminished by his rivals.
—Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
Think crochet dresses, chiffon shawls in sorbet hues, berets, coiffed afros, mixed prints, Studio 54-esque jumpsuits, beaded braids à la Patrice Rushen, and men dressed like Barkley Hendricks paintings.
—Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Beret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beret. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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beret
noun
be·ret
bə-ˈrā 
: a soft flat wool cap without a visor
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