Good hat shops in Belfast, Northern Ireland (and Dublin too!)?

[Shirley Films]

I will be spending a few days in Belfast next week - followed by a few days in Dublin. Can anyone recommend any good hat shops in those areas?

Mainly interested in fedoras. Not looking for super expensive, necessarily. I like to try and bring home a hat when I travel abroad.

Thanks!

 

[Edward]

I'm not about the plaace with the regularity I used to be, but I suspect you'll struggle in Belfast. Try any "old man" clothes shops you see (though I don't think there are many of those left in the city centred any longer). Howard Street and some of the other streets around City Hall now have a few higher end clothes shops that there used to be, heritage-type stuff, but I think you'll still struggle to find a brimmed hat in fur felt - mostly it's cheaper wool types. You'll have better luck looking for a nice tweed cap, Donegal Tweed being the nearest there is to a local thing.

I should think you'll have a bit better luck in Dublin, but it's been nearly twenty years since I did more than pass through the outskirts, so I really don't know the town any longer.

 

[Shirley Films]

Thanks Edward!