Casquette

Beret with a flat cap and large visor in the front. Very famous is one worn by Charlie Chaplin in The Kid. A unisex model known as the “gavroche” was worn by young people for sports activities in the 1960s. The model changed toward the end of the 1980s with a rounded cap after the shape of a baseball hat. Of Russian origin, in the second half of the 1800s it was the symbol of the working class and part of a sailor’s uniform. During the Belle Époque it was worn by car drivers, cyclists, and sailors.