Alessandria Shaved Felt
A city-name signature: shaved Alessandria felt shaped into a precise, urban Borsalino profile.
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Story & heritage
Borsalino is the oldest Italian luxury-hat specialist, founded in 1857 in Alessandria; the company’s name became associated with a particular felt-hat model and then with the wider language of refined Italian headwear.
Alessandria Shaved Felt is source-grounded in the official US store and belongs to the house’s felt-hat vocabulary: shaved, superior-quality, rollable or wide-brim felt depending on the model.
Materials & craft
Official product data describes this model through its felt quality, band width, lining and brim proportions; Borsalino’s production grounding states that felt hats are still made near Alessandria and require more than 50 manual steps and about seven weeks of work.
For this specific offer, the live product description notes: The Nilo hat is a shaved Alessandria felt model from the Autumn/Winter collection, designed with an essential yet refined style. Lined for comfort and structure, it features a 4 cm grosgrain band that subtly enhances its profile. The small brim, measuring approximately 4.7 cm, makes it ideal for a versatile urban look. Each Borsalino felt hat takes seven.
How to choose & style
Wear it with clothes that understand proportion: soft tailoring, overcoats, denim jackets or knit polos let the brim frame the face instead of fighting the outfit.
For a first Borsalino, start with dark felt and a moderate brim; move to wide brims, rollables or specialty felts once the hat becomes part of the daily silhouette.
