18 stores · curated ORBIS register
Kempsey / Australia / Online
Australian hat maker since 1874 — the fur felt hat, outback heritage, and the hat that symbolises rural Australia. Manufacturing moved from Sydney to Kempsey in 1974; the Akubra trademark was registered 7 August 1912.
Best for The iconic Australian fur felt hat
Via Galliera
A hat shop on Via Galliera since 1870, Antica Cappelleria Malaguti sells and restores handmade hats and caps for men and women. The business traces its origins to felt-making in Bologna's old ghetto quarter.
Best for Handmade hats and caps
Alessandria / Piedmont / Online
Italian felt-hat maker founded by Giuseppe Borsalino in Alessandria in 1857; won the Grand Prix at the 1900 Paris Exposition and grew to a 300-hatmaker factory by 1888, still producing in Alessandria today.
Best for Fur-felt fedoras and panama classics.
Giuseppe Borsalino opened a small hat workshop in Alessandria on April 4, 1857, applying felt-making skills learned during a Paris apprenticeship, and formally launched Borsalino Giuseppe & Fratello with his brother Lazzaro in a courtyard on Via Schiavina. In 1870 he developed a soft, high-crowned felt hat with a front indentation that became the template for 20th-century men's formal hats. The business earned a top medal at the 1868 Turin Exposition and moved to a larger, purpose-built factory on Corso Cento Cannoni in 1888, spanning 2,000 square meters and employing 300 hatmakers producing around 2,000 hats a day. It won the Grand Prix at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. The company has changed ownership several times in the past two decades but continues to manufacture in Alessandria.
Padua
Zin & De Lucia has sold hats in central Padua since 1879, a few steps from Caffe Pedrocchi, stocking everything from top hats and cashmere caps to Sicilian coppolas. The historic shop carries prestige brands like Borsalino and Stetson and now runs an e-shop.
Best for Hats, caps, headwear, Borsalino
Parte Vieja, San Sebastián
A hat and menswear shop selling hats, berets, and clothing in San Sebastián’s Old Town. The San Sebastián tourism board identifies it as the Basque Country’s oldest hat shop. Established 1838.
Best for Hats and berets at the Basque Country's oldest hat shop, since 1838
Avignon
Family-run since 1923 in a Monument Historique-listed Avignon shopfront (trading since 1860), Chapellerie Mouret sources Panama hats directly from Ecuador and stocks parasols, umbrellas, canes and gloves alongside Borsalino and Stetson.
Best for Parasols, umbrellas, canes and gloves alongside Borsalino and Stetson
Chapellerie Mouret has traded from 20 rue des Marchands in central Avignon since 1860, and the Mouret family has run it since 1923. The interior - Louis XVI in style, with gilded detailing and wooden shutters closed each evening with an ornate key - is listed by France's Monuments Historiques, making the shop itself as much a heritage site as a retailer. Hats are the core of the business, carrying established houses including Borsalino, Stetson, Kangol and Bailey, and the current owner has traveled to Ecuador roughly a dozen times to source Panama hats directly from the artisans who weave them, rather than through an intermediary importer. Around the hats, the shop keeps a genuinely broad accessories counter: braces, walking sticks, bow ties, driving and ceremony gloves, mittens, mantillas, balaclavas, and - the category relevant here - parasols and umbrellas, sold as part of the same formal-dress and ceremony wardrobe rather than as a specialty in their own right. The shop has drawn coverage from French outlets including TF1, Le Figaro, Telerama, Geo and Elle, and counts actors Robin Renucci and Daniel Auteuil and former prime minister Lionel Jospin among past customers. It is, first and foremost, a hatter with an unusually complete accessories range - its parasols and umbrellas are real and in stock, but secondary to the Panama hats and heritage shopfront that define the address.
Manchester, UK
A Manchester hatmaker tracing to an 1875 acquisition of the Maypole Hat Works, incorporated as the New Failsworth Hat Manufacturing Company in 1903; it made military headgear in WWII and produced Stetson-licensed hats from the late 1940s, and now trades as Failsworth 1903.
Best for Caps, flat caps
Failsworth's roots trace to 1875, when the business acquired the Maypole Hat Works and, in 1881, moved to a site on Claremont Street in Failsworth, near Manchester. It was formally incorporated as 'The New Failsworth Hat Manufacturing Company' on 2 December 1903 — the date now used in the brand's own '1903' name — starting from modest output of about 25 dozen hats a week. Growth was substantial over the following decades: by the 1940s the company was producing around 5,000 dozen hats weekly. During the Second World War, normal civilian hat production was restricted, and the company instead worked on Ministry of Supply contracts, making headgear for the armed forces and leather flying helmets and aircraft components for the RAF. In the late 1940s, Failsworth agreed a licensing arrangement with the American John B. Stetson Company to manufacture men's hats under the Stetson name in Britain, a partnership that lent the company additional prestige in menswear. The company was renamed Failsworth Hats Limited in 1940 and continues today, trading as Failsworth 1903, making flat caps, trilbies and other traditional headwear associated with northern English craft manufacturing.
San Francisco, USA
American hat maker since 1895—family-run producer of trucker caps, fedoras, flatcaps, and papa caps in seasonal and specialty materials.
Best for San Francisco animal-patch trucker caps and proper fedoras since 1895.
Goorin Bros. hat tradition began in 1895 when Cassel Goorin sold his first hat from a horse cart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved from the street cart to a shop corner and taught his two sons Alfred and Ted the craft and business. The brothers formally established the Goorin Brothers Company in 1921. The business relocated to San Francisco in 1949, where it remains a fixture. A pivotal moment came in 1960 when Goorin Bros. became the official headwear supplier for the Winter Olympics held at Squaw Valley, a partnership that solidified the brand's standing. After 50 years without new retail locations, the company opened its first hat shop in over five decades in San Francisco's North Beach in 2006, launching the campaign 'Bold Hatmakers since 1895.' Today, Cassel's great-grandson Ben Goorin leads the company while maintaining deep connections to its heritage. The current product line spans seasonal truckers, papa caps, fedoras, flatcaps, and specialty collections featuring materials like terry cloth and pleather. Goorin Bros. operates a store locator and maintains multiple retail locations across North America.
Salt Lake City
JW Custom Hats in Salt Lake City claims custom hats since 1853, crafting felt hats including a 50/50 beaver-rabbit felt option, with complimentary custom design appointments and Make Your Own Hat workshops. The company also runs a professional tooling division supplying hat-making equipment nationwide.
Best for Custom felt hat making
Oloron-Sainte-Marie / Online
Oloron-Sainte-Marie's last beret factory since 1840—handmade French wool berets in two days of work, French army supplier and world symbol.
Best for Wool berets made in Oloron-Sainte-Marie since 1840, once a French army supplier
Laulhère, established in 1840 at the foot of the Pyrenees in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, is today the last historic beret factory still in operation in France. The making of a Laulhère beret involves approximately ten manufacturing steps carried out by skilled craftspeople and takes two full days of work, sometimes more, with numerous checks and adjustments that make each item unique. All wool is sourced exclusively from French breeding, and all production occurs in Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Once the cradle of the beret with a dozen manufacturers, Oloron-Sainte-Marie now maintains three active factories. Laulhère has long supplied the French army and stands as the perpetual guardian of over 180 years of French beret craftsmanship tradition.
Lindenberg im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany
Founded in Ulm in 1800 by Leonhard Mayser, the hat maker moved its headquarters and design studio to Lindenberg im Allgäu, the Bavarian town whose felt and straw hat industry it helped build alongside dozens of other 19th-century hatters. The line still runs from classic felt hats and straw panamas to caps and beanies, carrying forward a firm that once turned out 3.5 million hats a year at its Lindenberg works.
Best for Felt hats, straw panamas, caps and beanies from a founding hat-town firm
St. Charles Avenue
Historic hat shop since 1894, offering a vast selection of headwear.
Best for Vast headwear selection at one of America's oldest hat shops
Milan / Italy
Founded in 1888, Cappelleria Mutinelli is a historic Milan hat shop stocking hats and caps of every style for men and women. Its Corso Buenos Aires store pairs the selection with expert fitting advice.
Best for Hats and caps in every style with expert fitting advice, a Milan hatter since 1888
al. Jerzego Waszyngtona 30/36 lok. U8, 03-910 Warsaw, Poland / Warsaw / Poland
A Warsaw hat workshop; its men's-hat shop opened in 1864 on Chmielna; moved 6 Sep 2019 to al. Jerzego Waszyngtona 30/36 opposite Park Paderewskiego. Gazeta Polska Codziennie: still run by Alina Cieszkowska.
Best for Oldest Warsaw hat workshop, first men's-hat shop opened 1864 on Chmielna.
Stewarton / Online
Scottish knitwear maker in Stewarton, Ayrshire - the 'Bonnet Toun' - founded in 1845 by Robert Mackie, continuing a local bonnet-making trade centuries old. Now the town's last bonnet manufacturer, producing Glengarry and Balmoral headwear alongside broader knitwear.
Best for Scottish knitted hats
Stewarton, in East Ayrshire, has been known as bonnet-making country for over 400 years, with nearly the whole town once involved in the trade. Robert Mackie's own family connection to the industry began through Thomas Mackie, who arrived from Irvine to supply feathers and dyestuff to local bonnet makers and started a spinning and dyeing business. In 1845, Robert Mackie moved on from that family enterprise to found his own bonnet-making concern, producing traditional Scottish Glengarry and Balmoral headwear. Where the town once supported many such workshops, Robert Mackie of Scotland is now the sole surviving bonnet manufacturer still operating in Stewarton, and the company has diversified over time into broader knitwear production while retaining its historic core craft.
Palma De Mallorca / Spain
Open since 1898, this Palma hat shop on Carrer del Sindicato has trimmed and sold hats and accessories for well over a century. The small family business marks its 127th year still dressing heads from its city-centre counter.
Best for Hand-trimmed hats and accessories from a Palma shop open since 1898
Mexico City / Zócalo
Mexico's hat house since 1847, still at Plaza de la Constitución 7 on the Zócalo — Porfirio Díaz, Zapata and Villa all bought here, and 'De Sonora a Yucatán se usan sombreros Tardan' still rings true, felt pressed and finished by hand.
Best for A felt sombrero from the shop that hatted the Revolution.
Garland / Texas / Online
American hat maker since 1865 — the cowboy hat, fedoras, and the 'Boss of the Plains'. An icon of the American West.
Best for The original American cowboy hat
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