Black Victorian Wool Top Hat Handcrafted 14.5cm Satin LinedThe black Victorian top hat is the most formally correct hat in the Novella Hats range. It carries 200 years of British formal dressing history in its 14. 5cm crown and 5. 5cm brim, and it occupies the highest register of the British hat hierarchy with a clarity that nothing else in the range can match. Handcrafted from 100% wool with a 14. 5cm crown height and a 5. 5cm brim, the hat has the full Victorian topper proportions that define the

Navy and charcoal for city wear where the dark green provides a subtle contrast rather than a loud accent

The warmth of brown leather

The green herringbone combination works alongside most outerwear in the natural colour range: tan

that differs clearly from the standard trilby crown and signals a specific aesthetic choice rather than a default hat decision

Handmade from 100% premium wool felt with a leather belt trim at the crown base that gives the hat its defining finishing detail

Its two-pointed silhouette is so specifically associated with that particular historical moment that wearing one today carries an unmistakable reference to that era

and black outfits as standard

It has a surface grain that is visible and tactile

the buffalo leather cowboy hat is the hat that outlasts everything else in the wardrobe

Dark green in Harris Tweed carries the weight of autumn rather than the brightness of spring

and the Gladwin Bond removable back pin adds the badge detail that marks the cap as authentic rather than approximating

5cm curved brim that holds its angle after adjustment