At this point, I’m wondering if there is enough of a quantity of raspberry berets in secondhand stores to identify the kind you would find in one.

  • Boozilla
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    Floppy, brightly-colored berets were popular in the late 60s and early 70s. I am unfortunately old enough to remember seeing some of them on the street, at school, on TV, etc. The character “Rerun”, played by Fred Berry on the show “What’s Happening!!”, wore a red one.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      He does look like the kind of guy that would be fun to go riding with down by Old Man Johnson’s farm.

  • Jo Miran
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    You could see a lot of fashion from thw 60’s and 70’s in thrift stores all the way through the 90’s. Then hipster style became mainstream and now all you can find in thrift stores is worn out suburban trash that was originally bought from a Ross or TJ Maxx.

  • Smuuthbrane
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    125 months ago

    Technically, a military surplus store could be considered a second hand store. What militaries use berets that could be considered “raspberry” in colour?

      • Flying SquidOP
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        125 months ago

        Yeah, but they’re a fairly specific shade of red. I wouldn’t call, for example, a dark scarlet beret ‘raspberry.’

        This comes up when I search for ‘raspberry color,’ which I’d call about right.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’d say that’s a close approximate of raspberry, but only if you’re shining light through it.

        • @dohpaz42
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          15 months ago

          Aside of yourself, would anybody else genuinely notice the difference in shades? Especially if another one was not present for comparison.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            35 months ago

            I’m guessing if Prince had felt that the shade didn’t matter, the song would have been “Red Beret.”

  • @Cryophilia
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    55 months ago

    Because of the song, any raspberry berets in stores would now immediately get bought and then resold online for 10x the price

    Or more likely it would go missing from the donated goods pile, and then get resold online