{"id":1013267,"date":"2026-06-08T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1013267\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:34:24","slug":"watch-hat-enthusiasts-cap-tivate-at-annual-london-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1013267\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Hat enthusiasts cap-tivate at annual London parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat enthusiasts gathered outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/life\/14062025-watch-the-tate-moderns-25th-anniversary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tate Modern<\/a> for a parade along the Thames towards Tower Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual London Hat Walk sees hobbyists and professional milliners, or hat makers, come together on Sunday, 10 May to show off their finest headwear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first organised hat walk was in <a href=\"https:\/\/barcelonahatdays.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona in 2014<\/a>, and it has since spread to dozens of cities worldwide including Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Seoul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockhatters.com\/pages\/heritage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London\u2019s oldest hat shop<\/a>, Lock &amp; Co., celebrates its 350th anniversary this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Gray, a professional milliner said; \u201cThese hat walks just go to show that hats make people happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re attention-grabbing too, so you end up interacting with people you wouldn\u2019t necessarily speak to otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to see some standout examples from this year\u2019s Hat Walk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Hannah Dunford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hat enthusiasts gathered outside the Tate Modern for a parade along the Thames towards Tower Bridge.\u00a0 The annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1013268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,5554,171112,192661,4022,393,2584,4884,86106,257,44232,45753,16,15],"class_list":["post-1013267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-community","tag-costume","tag-craft","tag-design","tag-england","tag-fashion","tag-great-britain","tag-hats","tag-london","tag-parade","tag-thames","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116714751271769159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}