If you are looking for a beautiful hat, this is the place to come. This shop has been around forever, and the selection and quality is always superb. It is fun just to go in and look. These aren't your every day hats.

This is not like the snooty Upper East Side hat shops that pretend you aren't there unless you have 5 grand of clothing on your back. But the hats are just as chic, they make to order for all sizes and shapes (yes, your head has a shape) and the service is fabulous. The place to go for all your chapeaux. And believe me as I never go out in the sun without a wide brimmed hat.

It’s all hats, all the time at this idiosyncratic, adorable Soho specialty shop, where headwear is high art. Store owner Linda Pagan, who, during her business-drab Wall Street days ...

The Hat Shop has my head size on file which makes it very easy to get a hat anytime should I need one.
I have been shopping there for the last 12 years and have received only the BEST service possible.
I have also called several times and no one has ever been "snooty" at all. Perhaps GRAY BISHOP
was having a bad day when he or she called the shop. Maybe Gray Bishop had the attitude problem and
was expecting the salesperson to jump through fire for he or she. Every story has 2 sides however, The Hat Shop could not have survived 12 years with nasty or snooty service.

Called looking for a specific hat. The woman on the other end was really snooty on the phone. Her response to a question was "A fedora is a fedora is a fedora." No offense but when I'm spending money I don't need to be talked to like it's my parents money and I'm in 1st grade. I called up another store and they not only knew what I was talking about but went to look to see if they had them in stock before I made the trip downtown.