Christys' is the only company in the world still making high quality top hats and bowlers in the traditional way.  Using hatting skills established over 200 years ago, the dedication of the highly skilled craftsmen and women is helping to keep a valuable industry very much alive.  Today, the making of quality hats is still a very labor intensive process.  With some 45 operation involved, many done by hand, the skills of the hat makers have to be developed over many years of specializing in one operation.