Subscribe Newsletter. Your special offer X. Subscribe now. A bowler hat. Do you love Britain? Let others know! Nowadays, the look is not available ready-to-wear, but Lock's cap-maker, who makes about 2, handmade caps a year, knew exactly what I had in mind. That is the great thing about Lock: As the world's oldest hat shop—it is in its 10th generation of family ownership—it has a kind of collective memory, in which the passage of time seems irrelevant. Behind the public areas are the workshops where hats are re-blocked, steamed, brushed and stored for overseas customers who call in for their top hats during the royal meeting at Ascot racecourse.
Lock moved into these premises only in , so naturally they have not had time yet to remove a small furnace, still packed with the 18th-century tools used by the building's former occupant, a figurine maker. Name an important male figure in the history of the British Isles, and he is more than likely to have been a Lock customer. Oscar Wilde, for example, chose a dramatic broad-brimmed fedora for a tour of the United States in The Irish playwright seemed less concerned with paying for his hat than collecting it; his bill was finally settled in by a member of the Oscar Wilde Society.
For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. There is some disagreement as to its designer. The traditional top hats were too tall and too delicate to be practical for the rigors of horseback riding across wooded properties.
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