The treatment of the fur obviously makes a difference to the finished product. Take The Biltmore Fur Felt Eleganza Soleil, a sporty dress hat in five stand-out colors. It has a little more texture than most fur felts because the hairs are not clipped as closely as they are on smoother felt headwear. When a hat is finished in a manner like the The Dobbs Fur Felt Broadstreet, or The Scala Sorrento Stingy Brim, or the aptly named Polar Canadian Suede, a dress fedora from Biltmore Hats, it takes on a supple, urbane look. And (as with anything else in life) quality will tell. The Stetson Fur Felt Open Road with its Grade 4X fur certainly proves this point, as it is one very dressy western hat. The Rosellini Luauro, a beautifully finished dress hat from Biltmore, is another men's hat that starts with carefully chosen top quality furs and becomes one of the finest in our headwear collection.

With their use of top-of-the-line fur felt and innovative designs, Dobbs Hats doesn't make it easy for you to decide which of their fur felt hats to buy. First you've got The Dayton, a stingy brim all-business hat that has oodles of style to spare; then there's The Dutton, a snap brim fur felt hat, with its quiet, smaller profile. Their classic fedora, The Jet 707, is one svelte hat, bringing back the past with a nice, big blast, and The Dobbs Waverly (from the Steve Harvey Collection) has a polished suede finish that exudes savoir-faire. For a silk finish fedora, in Black or Graphite, I think The Temptation in fur felt might tempt you. I sure fell for it.

I also fell for a sporty little fur felt porkpie with a telescope crown called The Jazz, courtesy of Biltmore Hats, and for their Classic Homburg, a fur felt that's better looking than any men's hat really has the right to be. The fall was hard and fast when The Tyrolean Dress Hat in sueded fur felt came across my hat radar screen. Authentic to the badger brush, only a trip to Austria could make this hat experience any better. I nearly hurt myself getting at Biltmore's fur felt homburg, the elegant Golden Pheasant, and when you see this baby, you'll know why.

Really, there is nothing like fur felt for men's hats.