Guide

Snug all around, level on your head, a finger's width above the ears — and measured in inches before anything else. A New York hatter's guide to fedora fit, US hat sizes, and head sizes 7 3/4 and up.

A bobble hat is a knit cap with a yarn pom-pom on the crown — what most Americans call a pom-pom beanie. Here is where the bobble came from, which wools are worth your money, and how the hat should...

Where the docker cap came from, what separates it from a beanie, and how to choose, size, and wear one — a New York hatter's guide to docker hats.

Knit, felt, or tailored — each wool hat is cleaned a different way, and only one of them can be washed. Here is the method for all three, from a New York hat shop that has kept wool hats alive sinc...