Guide

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...

Stetson, Lierys and Mayser are the brands behind the high-end lumberjack hats with ear flaps we carry — and the term covers three different builds. A New York hatter's guide to choosing, fitting an...

What premium wool winter hats actually cost in the US — knit hats, flat caps, newsboy caps, earflap caps and wool felt — and what you are paying for at each price.

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...

A hatter's checklist for judging a trapper hat: the shell that matches your weather, a lining dense enough to hold heat, a brim with a spine, earflaps that seal, and a fit taken with the flaps down.