LOS ANGELES − It took Cody Wellema up to 10 hours to make a hat. The roughly 50-step process sounds like a craft from another century: Wellema wrangled rare American felt over old wooden blocks ...

"All my tools were 100 years old. It took years of collecting and sourcing and relationships and knowing people to build all these things and to acquire these tools, to make the hats that I made." ...