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Men wore hats for hundreds of years. Even worse, many spend a fortune on designer clothes and then finish it off with a terrible fedora made of paper.

But something changed in the 1960s and the average man now walks the world with a bare head, covered by an occasional baseball cap. But now, it's time to stop being average...

At The Man In The Hat, our mission is, starting from Hong Kong, to re-introduce the love of high-quality men's hats. We find new owners for extraordinary hats and we resurrect vintage styles. And we revive the classics by

custom-making hats for those who want to be unique. Follow us on social media to learn about the history of hats, the dedication of modern artisans and the almost forgotten skills of hatmaking. See classic hat styles and the men - and women - who made them famous. In our expanded store in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, we have a stunning collection of classic, vintage and custom hats. We are open most days (but not fixed hours) and you can contact us anytime for an appointment. Spend time with the best hats in town. Maybe you’ll become The Man In The Hat!

11/09/2026

Hats: we have the best Cowboy hats in town, with brands such as Stetson, Resistol, Ventur, Tombstone and others. Make an appointment to visit our showroom and try them on!
Now in central Brighton: The Man In The Hat, for Vintage, Retro and Custom Hats

12/08/2026

Hats: in the Showroom today we are focusing on the Bowler, one of the core items in our stock! Of course, you can find the traditional black Bowler, as well as Chinese New Year Red, groovy Purple plus a sprinkling of blues and browns. To be honest, we can order any colour for our customers. So, here you can see the extremes of size that are available, from the smallest vintage Bowler by Pytchley, size 53, to a whopping black Bowler by Major, size 62! And, of course, we have all the in between sizes and we can order one as big as size 64, for the occasional friendly giant! Come and see!

14/05/2026

Coming soon to Brighton… The Best Hats In Town!
One year after departing Hong Kong, The Man In The Hat will shortly relaunch with a showroom in central Brighton, UK, showcasing Classic, Vintage and Custom-made men’s hats! Learn all about the classic styles and the world’s most iconic hat wearers. Watch this space for further details!

13/11/2025

Hat: beautiful vintage Borsalino stingy brim fedora.
So, as is well known every aficionado of hat history, all Borsalinos are purportedly made in Italy. They have always been made in Italy and this is vigorously maintained by all iterations of Borsalino’s continuing social media activity and websites. And yet, as I and many others have noted, there are many vintage Borsalino fedoras, such as this gorgeous blue example, that bear the wording ‘made in USA’ on the sweatband. So who is being economical with the truth? Was this beaver felt fedora genuinely made in America or was it all fake news? Were Borsalino hats always and only made in Alessandria, Italy?

07/10/2025

Looking around in Lewes…

26/09/2025

Hat: when The Man In The Hat returns to England, of course it has to be in a Bowler!

09/09/2025

Hat: custom Public Enemies Fedora looking awesome as always, as we say a fond farewell to Hong Kong, after 19 brilliant years in Asia’s best city!

08/09/2025

Dear all! As we prepare to depart Hong Kong after 19 years and return home to England, we have to show off the new IG Profile dedicated fully to my favourite car: the Batmobile!
Check it out!

21/08/2025

Hat: Coppola Siciliana. The Sicilian cap was derived, in the late 19th and early 20th century, from the traditional English flat cap, which was already a favourite hat of the British working class. While the 8-panel newsboy cap, another offshoot of the flat cap, became fashionable among dandies and gangsters, the Sicilian flat cap was quickly adopted by young men throughout Italy. It’s now culturally embedded as a traditional Italian hat and was excellently modelled by Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972), in his portrayal of Michael Corleone. Today’s post shows Pacino’s Coppola Siciliana, as well as a couple of lovely vintage Borsalino caps from my own collection.

02/08/2025

Hats:the Opera Hat. Patented by Gibus in 1837 and no longer made, the ingenious Opera Hat (or Chapeau Claque) consisting of silk satin or merino stretched over a sprung steel frame, offered the perfect solution when Top Hats had to be removed and placed under theatre seats. Elegant, robust and reliable, the Opera Hat could be squashed flat and then spring up again on demand.

The Opera Hat is a fascinating, elegant machine. When it opens, it seems almost magical. When it closes, it fits inside your knapsack. If you want to go the full Fred Astaire but still travel light, it is your best choice of formal party headwear. Or, indeed, for the Opera.

In this post, you can see a few of my own personal Opera Hats, which have been making heads spin in Hong Kong since the first outing in 2015, when the event MC created my new nickname: The Man In The Hat! And the rest, as they say, is a pretty good story…

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Brighton And Hove
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