01
Rain
Felt takes on water. Here is what that costs you.
Every hat page says what a soaking does to that particular felt and how to dry it — upside down, in shade, never with heat. We apply no water-repellent finish and we do not claim one.
Feltrum · wool and rabbit felt · Gata de Gorgos, Alicante
Measured
to your
head
blocked to hold its shape
— and we tell you when it won’t. Every hat here states what rain, folding and shedding actually do to it, and if your measurement lands inside a standard size we will tell you that too, instead of selling you a fitting.
cm
Size 58 cm fits you. See why
Step one · measure
What is your
head circumference
A soft tape, level, about one centimetre above the brow and across the widest point at the back. Firm but not pulled tight. Round to the nearest half centimetre.
cm
48 cm70 cm
Step three · what we would sell you
Inner circumference
58.0cm
Your size
58M
Size 58 cm fits you
At standard ease your inner circumference is 58 cm, which is inside our standard size 58 cm (M). You do not need custom sizing. Order the standard size and keep the USD 38.
Sizes we block
54 · 55 · 56 · 57 · 58 · 59 · 60 · 61 · 62 · 63 cm
A blocked hat holds its inner circumference to about ±0.35 cm. Inside that, a standard size is the right answer.
What we do with this number
Nothing, unless you send it to us. A measurement entered here stays in your browser. If you order custom sizing we keep it to build and to re-cut the band, and for no longer than 12 months.
If your measurement lands inside a standard size, we’ll say so. Custom sizing is for heads that don’t.
The three things nobody writes down
Rain.
Crushing.
Shedding.
Three questions decide whether you keep a felt hat or resent it, and almost nobody answers them before you buy. Every product page here answers all three, in specific terms, for that specific felt. A hat that cannot pass all three is not listed.
Read the full care guide
02
Crushing
Some of these roll. Most of them do not.
The packable line rolls into a coil and opens back out. The structured line does not fold at all, and if you fold it, it stays folded. Each page says which, in those words.
03
Shedding
A new felt hat sheds. All of them.
Two to three weeks for wool, about two for fine rabbit, a month for long nap. Brush in one direction and it stops. You will see it on a dark coat before it does.
Six lines
Sorted by what
the brim does
Not by season or by occasion. The brim width and the amount of stiffener decide almost everything about how a felt hat behaves, so that is how the catalogue is organised.
01Fedora
USD 118 – USD 398
The creased crown, in eight densities
A pinched crown that holds a centre crease and a brim you can turn down at the front. Six to eight centimetres of brim, wool through to fine rabbit felt. This is the line most people mean when they say felt hat.
02Trilby
USD 108 – USD 268
Four to five centimetres, and no more
A shorter brim and a tighter crown than the fedora. It reads closer to the head and sits better under a coat collar. Nothing here goes past five centimetres of brim.
03Wide brim
USD 148 – USD 448
Where the brim starts to carry the silhouette
Nine to twelve centimetres of brim. At this width the brim stops being trim and starts being the shape. Some are held flat with a wire edge, some are left to fall.
04Structured
USD 168 – USD 498
Bowler, homburg, short top hat
Heavily stiffened felt blocked to a fixed shape. These do not fold, do not roll, and do not forgive being sat on. In exchange they hold an edge that soft felt cannot.
05Packable
USD 128 – USD 288
Built to travel in a bag
Unstiffened or lightly stiffened felt that can be rolled into a coil and opened back out. Recovery is good but never absolute, and every product page here says how good.
06Custom & sets
USD 38 – USD 598
The inner band, the brush, the box
Custom Sizing fits the inner band to a measured head. The rest of this line is what keeps a felt hat in shape once you own it, plus two hat-and-care sets.
Under the felt
The part that
decides everything
A felt hat is three layers: the felt body, the stiffener soaked into its inner face, and the sweatband. How much stiffener went in is what decides whether the hat holds a crease, whether it can be rolled, and whether a fold is temporary or permanent.
You never see it, and almost nobody tells you about it. Every product page here states the density in g/m² and the stiffness grade, because those two numbers predict how the hat will behave better than any adjective would.
Compare every density
Measured, not described
Brim widths,
to the millimetre
“Wide” means nothing. Every hat in the catalogue lists its brim width and crown height in centimetres, taken off the finished hat rather than off the block.
Six to start with
One from
each line
After you own it
Three habits,
and it lasts
Dry it upside down in shade. Brush it in one direction. Store it on its crown or in a box. Everything else about felt care is detail on top of those three.
The felt care guide
Before you order
Shipping
Standard delivery 5–9 business days, tracked. Free over USD 149. Destinations, rates and customs duties are listed in full.
Shipping and returnsWithdrawal
14 days to change your mind from the day the hat arrives, no reason needed. Hats built to a measured circumference are the one exception, and we say so on the product page.
Right of withdrawalLegal guarantee
3 years on every hat. Sweatbands and fittings stay available for 10 years after a model leaves the catalogue.
Legal guaranteePayment
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Terms of sale