We are so pleased to begin the process of sharing our 36 years of business with sewers everywhere. We have launched a YouTube Channel, a new pattern division and have plans to add a sewing club before Christmas where we will share one or two live sessions a week answering questions about hat design and creating and sharing sewing tips and techniques.  Subscribe to our YouTube Channel, @Mad Cap Hats here and join in the fun!  The patterns for multi piece designs like the Slouchy Fashion Cap will be supported by step by step video tutorials on YouTube. We will share the dimensions of o ..read more

We are pleased to announce the soft launch of our "How to and Style" channel on YouTube!!  Find it here, subscribe please!!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsoD4q03FDao1gmdAqHGucQ Our first video shows how you can shape the brims of our summer hats to create a bit of flare or to even create a very deep bucket hat look. Most of our clients buy our sun hats for sun protection and "Sun protection with Style" has been our motto and mission for all these years.  Some of you may be aware that I am planning to retire, musing about it anyway,  in the next year or so. Starting thi ..read more

Yesterday, I had to leave the protective bubble of my lakeside studio to venture to our nearest city, Kingston, ON, to have a slow leaking tire fixed. Knowing that a trip to Costco's tire centre is never a fast outing, I thought it a great oppportunity to test drive our new mask button toques for comfort and ease of use. I am so happy and excited that the test run was a huge success! The mask was even more comfortable to wear when the elastic was fastened to the outside of the hat rather than my ears. My glasses never once fogged up! The elastic loops crossing over where my ears were underneat ..read more

We have been super busy this spring and summer due to high demand for our masks and hats. Pondering how to proceed with the fall and winter, likely another season that sees the need for social distancing and wearing masks, has been a good challenge. We have made alot of scrubs this season for medical workers and about a month ago I noticed more and more orders coming in from teachers. With the schools opening and teachers ordering our scrub caps to help with comfort and relief for their ears in a busy classroom, it seemed a good idea to add the buttons we use for our medical scrub caps to our ..read more

We wear our masks to protect you. We wear our masks to protect ourselves. Protecting ourselves means not touching our faces when we are out and about. It means practicing social distancing. It means doing what we can to avoid being infected with the Covid-19 virus. It means doing what we can to stop the spread of this disease. If we all protected ourselves and each other to stop the spread of the virus, the virus would die. Plain and simple ... no host, no virus. We have designed our masks to be comfortable enough to avoid fiddling with the fit, to remove fogging of glasses, and to offer adjus ..read more

It's Monday the 9th of March, 2020 and it doesn't feel like we are heading towards the start of a good week.  The entire nation of Italy is on lock down. Toilet paper is sold out everywhere (and I still don't quite understand why) and the global pandemic is spreading.  That can't be a good way to start a day or a week in anyone's books. Here in Canada this Monday starts and ends with a huge drop in the stock market and the growing fear of the world-wide spread of a pandemic COVID 19.  We seem to be managing the pandemic but unfortunately we had our country's first death today.&n ..read more

I have passion for hats. Hello!  My name is Tori Capes and I am a Certified Milliner and the designer/co-owner of Mad Cap Hats.  If you order a hat from this website, I will be the one making it just for you!  Right here in North America ... in Canada to be exact! I am grateful for the support of our Mad Cap customers as we enter our 33rd year in business!    Where did all that time go?  I've had quite the career during that time.  Lots of ups and downs.  A couple of recessions.   A career that has included three shops, seven employees and nume ..read more