I am honored to announce that I will be a judge of the Hat Contest at The Royale for Derby Day. This is the job I was born to do! A $50 Levine Hat Gift Card goes to the contest winner! The 141st...
The Ligne, or French Ligne, is a unit of measurement you’ll sometimes overhear in the hat business when referring to hat bands. Since hat band widths is the only place I’ve ever heard it used, and I was surprised to find...
Many years ago, a Frenchman came into our Saint Louis shop, and requested a fine chapeau. The story goes that our staff was running around rather frantically searching in books to figure out what type of hat this was. If they...
