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Barett
With its name meaning “beret” in Hungarian, this all-purpose hat outlet offers a huge range of hard-to-find international products – from Sherlock-style deerstalkers to Scottish tam-o’-shanters, from tall top hats to American trucker caps, and from gold-braided hats for ship captains to bowlers for Victorian gentlemen. With such an assorted selection, this is an equally useful stop for completing a formal outfit or preparing for a costume party.
Where: Budapest 1133, Pozsonyi út 54
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BP Shop - Wesselényi utca (Closed)
Hungary’s ever-fresh independent streetwear brand is probably most famous for its creative collection of embroidered caps, often emblazoned with subtly altered iconography of comic-book heroes, prominent American sports teams, or classic Magyar motifs like rodent characters from the 1986 animated film Macskafogó. Their newly debuted line of hats includes a cap printed with historic black-and-white photographs of Budapest’s riverfront skyline.
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Cargomoda
Find handmade high-quality head coverings made by Goorin Bros. – one of the USA’s premier hat manufacturers, established in 1895 – at this small-but-stylish shop preferred by Hungary’s most demanding hipsters. From wool fedoras to tweed caps to trendy trilbies, a full range of retro-inspired hats always turns heads here, alongside handcrafted shoes by Spain’s cobblers of Maians and colorfully creative fabric treats for feet by Sweden’s Happy Socks.
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Hadvári
During the frigid depths of winter, masterful Magyar hatter Gábor Hadvári keeps many of Budapest’s craniums cozy by continually creating top-class fur hats for women and men. Using a wide variety of pelts (as well as artificial fur), Hadvári produces numerous types of fashionably fuzzy headwear in traditional styles or of his own design, with custom orders always welcome; this is also a fine place to find luxurious stoles and rabbit-fur pom-poms.
Where: Budapest 1072, Rákóczi út 6
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Marácz
Drawing on his decades of experience and ample creativity, Hungarian hatmaker Csaba Marácz crafts an impressive assortment of timelessly attractive pieces for men (such as classic Gatsby caps and wide-brimmed fedoras) and so-retro-it’s-new hat styles for women, like cloches with fanciful ribbons and felt flowers. Marácz also maintains a complete stock of berets in a wide spectrum of colors, and offers other useful headgear like fluffy earmuffs.
Where: Budapest 1137, Pozsonyi út 7
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Masamod
Creating elegantly experimental “neo-vintage accessories” for women who express themselves with playfully graceful fashion, Magyar milliner Virág Ildikó Erdei melds elements of time-honored hat designs with 21st-century aesthetics to form trendsetting headwear. From jaunty little pillboxes and curvaceous half hats to broad-brimmed felt fedoras, Erdei’s unique styles are quickly gaining international recognition – most recently at Milan Fashion Week.
Where: Budapest 1061, Lázár u. 8
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Pázmányi
Take a head-trip through time to Budapest’s oldest hat-selling enterprise, founded in 1870 and operating at its current location since 1959. After stepping into the venerable showroom, visitors are surrounded by tall stacks of hats for all seasons in styles that date back a century, offered alongside more modern models as well. Fortunately, the low prices here also seem to be from a bygone era – nice hats can be had for as little as 999 forints.
Where: Budapest 1081, Népszínház u. 16
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V50
The delightfully fanciful designs of independent Hungarian hatter Valéria Fazekas hang in her atelier like wearable artworks, from adjustable transparent head coverings made of fine gossamer fabric to rigid felt hats with asymmetrically undulating patterns and intriguing protuberances. Some of her unpredictably shapely products are named after the cities that inspired their creation, like Tokyo, Manhattan, Brussels, Moscow, and (naturally) Budapest.
Where: Budapest 1056, Váci u. 50
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