1960s Skateboarder in a Pork Pie Hat

Cool pork pie hat wearing skateboarder in New York, picture from 1960s Life Magazine.

How To Make A Pork Pie Hat with Lester Young

Jazzster Lester Young show how to make a Pork Pie Hat. Of course you could always time and take a look at Headstart Hats cool collection of these classic hats.....Daddio.

1950s Fairground Workers in Pork Pie Hats

Found Photo of the 1950s. Workers at a fairground most of them wearing pork pie hats

Dr Who wants a Pork Pie Hat

Matt Smith wants the Doctor to get a new hat in the next series of 'Doctor Who' in keeping with his other headwear choices.

Matt Smith wants to wear a "pork pie" hat in 'Doctor Who' next year.
The 29-year-old actor has enjoyed getting to don unusual headwear, including a Stetson and a fez, as the Time Lord and he is pushing for a new hat for the 2012 run.
He told BANG Showbiz: "I've been thinking of hats for next year. I think the pork pie's quite fun, or, you know, the Doctor in a fun trilby. I think Steven's going to go for a really ridiculous one. I really like the Stetson."

Pork Pie Hat Drawing

Picture that accompanied the words Pork Pie Hat in an old dictionary

Pork Pie Hat Picture

Cool Pork Pie Hat picture from Flickr

Sammy Davis Junior wearing a snappy pork pie hat

Rat packer and all round entertainer Sammy Davis looking sharp in a pork pie hat

It's a Jazz Thing -Monkish Hats

Pork Pie Hat - The Book

Horror story titled Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub. Passionate about jazz, the narrator discovers that one of his greatest heroes, a saxophonist by the name of Pork Pie Hat, is still alive and playing at a club he frequents. Granted an interview by the Hat, the narrator gets a night of extraordinary stories from a man dying of alcoholism. Copies available on Amazon

H is for Hats

 

Hats from the learners dictionary

Mod Hats and Caps

First things first, A baseball cap with a giant target on the front or with the word "Mod"  splattered across the front isn't Mod. 

Modernists have always had a passion for hats and caps, first is the narrow brimmed trilby style hats worn by the likes of Hammond organ groover Jimmy McGriff and Ska legend Laurel Aitken.

Then there's the timeless classic the Breton cap, championed by Sixties Mod heroes The Small Faces through to Britpoppers Oasis and Ocean colour scene.

The Pork pie hat is so cool, Charlie Mingus wrote a song about it "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"

Also falling in the Mod friendly category are French style berets and Bucket hats. Visit Headstart Hats  website for more Mod Hats and Caps

Christys Pork Pie Hats Now Online

Christys Pork Pie Hat


£39.99

This is the real deal, Classic Black 100% fur felt Pork Pie hat made by Christys of London, short 4cm brim with a plastic lining to protect the hat.

Available in XXS 55cm Small 57cm & Large 59cm

Buy it Now

Coming soon Christys Pork Pie Hat

Cool Pork Pie Hats

Worn by Jazz hipsters such as  Dexter Gordon to Gene Hackmans French connection character Popeye Doyle. Now available online, Stylish Jaxon Pork Pie Hat . Coming soon the Christy's of London Pork Pie Hat

New Website, New Address

It's a New Day, with a New Website and a New Address.

 Headstart Hats website has had a complete retro restyling by Paul Clapp from Retro Edge Web Design based in Plymouth.

The New website has also moved home to a new domain headstarthats.co.uk 

Our fantastic new website includes a wide range of hat and cap styles include fashion trilbies, traditional mens flat caps, Winter warming long beanie hats, Sun blocking straw trilby hats, Retro breton caps, Summer festival bucket hats, City Gent bowler hats, Indie look cadet caps, Ladies berets, Stylish baker boy caps, Cool pork pie hats and timeless classics like the top hat and deerstalker. Come rain or shine headstart hats will have a hat for you.

Click hat style to view or range of hats and caps

Trilby Hats

Straw Trilby Hats

Breton Caps

Pork Pie Hats

Flat Caps

Baker Boy Caps

Cadet Caps 

Beanie Hats 

Berets

Deerstalkers

Bucket Hats

Bowler Hats

Top Hats.

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Black Pork Pie Style Trilby

Think  Ska, Two Tone, Madness, The Specials, The Beat, The Selecter.....A stylish and sharp looking narrow Brim Trilby hat, sometimes wrongly called pork pie hats.This retro rudeboy style black trilby hat with a grey and white Stripe band. Can be worn casual or formally,  essential Rude boy (or girl)  headwear.