The Missing Piece

What a great store. But what really makes this store fantastic is the owner Micheal. He helped me pick out a hat, was very kind, and made this a very pleasant experience. I love my new hat and will absolutely be going back! I highly recommend The Missing Piece.

A great little hat shop! The man, I think he was the owner, was super friendly and helpful. We were trying on hats for what seemed like forever and not once did he lose his patience with us. He is really enthusiastic about his work and that’s refreshing to see. We wound up getting an adorable women’s hat (circa 1940s-​50s-​looking), a beanie (for the bf bc it gets cold in KC), and a scarf, all for around $ 50. Not bad, I say, not bad atall.

A great place, fantastic selection of hats for both men and women. They will also stretch hats and are quite helpful.

I just love hats! So a store DEVOTED to hats has my total admiration.
At The Missing Piece you will find both women’s & men’s hats. Warm toasty wool hats for fighting winter winds and beautiful light straws for shading your eyes on hot summer days.
They offer both practical, utilitarian hats and off the wall outlandish hats and other than giving you some help in finding your size or something particular, the staff pretty much just steps back and lets you try them on to your heart’s content.
Some of the quality hats are expensive but I’ve found some very good sales over the times I have shopped there. And for the wide selection from which to choose, you just can’t beat a visit to The Missing Piece.

This is a hat store by the way — because the title could mean anything.
I don’t own hats — no wait — I own a sun hat that I bought on sale at J. Crew and never have worn it — so it doesn’t really count. I don’t wear hats — I guess because I think it takes balls. It’s not the 40s anymore, out on the street men don’t need their hats to be men anymore and women don’t need their hats to be women anymore. It’s become a useless accessory to some and a bold fashion choice as of late.
I have my trepidations — but to hell with them — I’m going to buy a hat, a men’s hat (because they get all the good hats — I’m not looking for a beret or anything). The men’s hats are the best — the Stetson Gable, the wool Fedora, the ‘Driving-​Style Walking Hat”, Porkpies, Biltmores, and Panama straw in colors beige, brown, blue, and black (a few grays and ivories).
The man running the store is great! He taught me to put on a hat properly (and there is a way, apparently). I’ll give you the secret: set it on top of your head without any downward pressure to try to fit it tighter — let is sit there for a moment to get the look of it — and then adjust to comfort BUT beware of forcing it out of its original shape. Wearing a hat properly means wearing its intended shape.
As a woman, I’m a small in the men’s hats (a medium if they don’t have a small). In the women’s section — it’s one size fits all. The guy kept leading me over to the women’s hats that looked so dated to me, like I would be playing dress up if I tried any one of them on. But the men’s hats — they felt right and I still looked like myself with them on — only better.
The prices are standard — they’re not the cheapest of hats — like the ones you can get at a used vintage store (but vintage hats never seem to fit me right and there is only one in stock of the one I like, so I leave dissatisfied and wishing my head were smaller or larger). I found most of them, spanking new, to be between $ 60 — $ 95 and soon, when I get the balls to do it, I’m buying a men’s hat.