London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Parade Around Town This April

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Last Updated 31 March 2025

London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Parade Around Town This April
A person in a red cap, wearing lots of interesting face decorations
Hats the way uh-huh, uh-huh... Image: London Hat Week

Central London goes hat mad on Sunday 27 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 Minerva Square (alongside Southwark Cathedral) at 2pm on Sunday 27 April 2025.

Hat wearers gather in front of Buckingham Palace
Hat wearers amass outside Buckingham Palace in 2024. Image: London Hat Week

Participants follow a leader on a leisurely amble about town, which is all about showing off your headwear, and making new friends.

Two people wearing hats and a placard 'wear more hats'
Hats mean a LOT to these people. Image: London Hat Week

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.

This heady promenade started out in Barcelona in 2014, and has since spread to 48 cities worldwide including Lagos, Buenos Aires and Seoul.

London Hat Walk, St James's Piccadilly, Sunday 27 April 2025, starts 2pm, free

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