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Hat Shops
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Contra Costa County Hat Shops
Ava's Garden
967 Richard Ln, Danville, CA 94526. Tel. 925.820.4962.
Sara Lorraine Adams Millinery
124 Alameda St., Vallejo, 707.644-2746. Custom hats by appointment.
East Bay Hat Shops
Berkeley Hat Company
2510 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, 510.549-2955. Big selection of modern women's hats and lots of men's hats (including top hats).
Chandra Cho, Fine Millinery
1508 A Walnut Square, Berkeley, 510.644-4499. Gorgeous hats. Lots of choices for the teens, twenties and thirties.
Ebony Beauty Supplies
8302 14th St., Oakland, 510.562-5529. Carries human hair strands for making your own wigs and un-sewn hanks for hair weaving. Also has sausage curls for 'southern belles.' Great prices.
The Hat Generation
431 Water Street, Oakland, CA 94607, 510-451-2247. Good selection of men's hats (some very nice fedoras and British cloth hats), lots of women's hats for the Deco era.
The Hat Guys
1764 Broadway, Oakland, 510.834-6868. Lots of hats, floor to ceiling, and a small selection of feathers. Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30, Sat 10-5:30.
Top Hatters
855 MacArthur Blvd. (off Foothill Blvd.), San Leandro. Tel. 510.632.5320
Marin Hat Shops
Hats and Images
450 First St. East #F, Sonoma, Tel. 707.938.HATS
The Hat Generation
84 Main Street, Tiburon, CA 94920, Tel. 415.435.6380. Good selection of men's hats (some very nice fedoras and British cloth hats), lots of women's hats for the Deco era.
The Mill Valley Hat Box
118 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA Tel. 415-383-2757
Custom couture, full service millinery shop.
Peninsula Hat Shops
Fino Fino
75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park, Tel. 650.321.8720. Stylish straw hats.
San Francisco Hat Shops
Adornme
Crocker Galleria, 50 Post Street, San Francisco, 415.397.4231. Beautiful hats; many in the styles of the 1920s.
Alternative Design Studio
3458 18th Street, San Francisco, 415.255.2787. Owner Elina Davenport dreamed up many of the 1000 hats on sale. Others are commissioned from Bay Area milliners.
Frank's Fisherman
366 Jefferson St., San Francisco, 415.75.1165. Captain's hats, Greek fisherman's caps, 19th c. seaman's hats, and (drum roll, please!) Viking helmets ... with Horns!
The Hat Generation
900 Northpoint (Ghirardelli Square), San Francisco, CA 94109, 415.749.1734. Good selection of men's hats (some very nice fedoras and British cloth hats), lots of women's hats for the Deco era.
Hats on Post
210 Post St., Ste. 201, San Francisco, 415.392.3737. Hours: Mon-Sat 12-5.
Inspecteur des Chapeaux
415.387.4103. Inspector, collector, and connoisseur of fine men's hats. By appointment.
Lily Fighera Hats
568 Arguello Blvd., San Francisco. 415.752.5957. By appointment. Lily's hats are also available at two shops in San Francisco: Backseat Betty (1584 Haight Street. 415.431.8393) and Fetish Footwear (Presidio and Sacramento).
Pan's House of Horns
415.292.5649. Individually hand-crafted. The horns are also available at Dark Garden (321 Linden Street, San Francisco, 415.431.7684).
Paul's Hatworks
6128 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 415.221.5332. Impeccable vintage men's hats. Paul also makes fine Panama and fur felt hats.
Thorne Hat Shop
1552 Ocean Ave., San Francisco, 415.586.8535. Nice general selection.
Santa Cruz Hat Shops
The Hat Company
1346 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA. Men's and women's hats, 1920s and 1930s. Men's top hats and boaters. Witch and wizard hats.

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Last update 12/09/04