Central London goes hat mad this Sunday (7 April) — when a flurry of fashionable folk parade around town in their finest headwear.
London Hat Walk sees a gaggle of professional milliners and hatters, plus vintage/retro enthusiasts, collectors, cosplayers, re-enactors, hobby crafters and novelty hat-wearers (there's usually at least one person with a chicken on their head), depart from St James's church, Piccadilly at 1pm on Sunday 7 April 2024.
Participants follow a leader on a leisurely amble about town, which is all about showing off your headwear, and making new friends.
If you fancy taking part in the London Hat Walk then consider yourself invited — the one simple rule being (perhaps obviously) that you must wear a hat.
As well as the Hat Walk itself, there's a surplus sale of hats and other headwear at St James's on both Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April, with vendors including Siggi Hats, All the Fun of the Fair, Atelier Millinery and Ellie Rose.
This heady promenade started out in Barcelona in 2014, and has since spread to 14 cities across the world, including Oslo, Adelaide, Buenos Aires and Seoul.
London Hat Walk, St James's Piccadilly, Sunday 7 April 2024, starts 1pm free
