mohair berets

The photographs promoting the album showed the band members wearing mohair berets.

The social group called "mohair berets" came under close scrutiny conducted by one of the companies dealing with personal data processing.

Rumour has it that the prelate has his own legion of mohair berets in Gdańsk."

The phrase "mohair berets" gained a widespread popularity in colloquial language, particularly in some political skirmishes.

The term "mohair berets" alludes to the colloquial names for such military units as special forces or Green Berets (called "red and green berets" in Polish).

Probably the first article which introduced the expression "mohair berets" to the Polish press was the one published in the daily Rzeczpospolita from 23 October 2004 titled "Labyrinths of the parish priest".

The expression "mohair berets" was used for the first time in 2004 and it referred to the people who were regularly attending masses in Gdańsk celebrated by Henryk Jankowski, the parish priest.

I live in Poland and I can say that only ultra-right wing nationalists (mostly the Polish version of the blue rinse brigaid - the "mohair berets") are afraid of Russia these days.

Its analyses showed that mohair berets accounts for 3.1 per cent of the overall Polish population, the typical representatives of the group analysed being mostly married couple over 50 years old, whose children have already left the nest.

The term "mohair berets" became commonly used after Robert Górecki, a photojournalist of Gazeta Wyborcza, published the photograph on the Internet which depicted the 14th anniversary of Radio Maryja in December 2005.

The mohair berets are a leitmotiv of the satirical song Mohair berets recorded by Big Cyc which was released in April 2006 on the album of the same title.

The phenomenon of mohair berets is also a key theme of skits (called Mohair programme) performed by cabaret Neo-Nówka from Wrocław as well as the song Moherowy ninja (Mohair ninja) from the album Gra?