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A woman-owned custom hat bar and millinery workshop in downtown Lee’s Summit, where customers build one-of-a-kind cowboy hats from the felt up — shaped, banded, and finished by hand.

  • Name: Smith Hat Company, LLC
  • Type: Custom hat maker / millinery workshop and retail hat bar
  • Owner: Nicole McCullough 1
  • Established:
  • Address: 211 SE Douglas St, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 2
  • Signature: Custom cowboy hats with hand-shaping, exotic-leather and silk hatbands, embroidery, branding, and handmade pins, feathers, or silver conchos 2
  • Status: Open 3
  • Tier: 1## Description

Smith Hat Company runs a custom hat bar: customers pick a felt body and then personalize it with hatbands, unique materials such as exotic leathers, fabrics, and silks, branding, embroidery, and decorations like handmade pins, feathers, or silver conchos 2. The shop pitches itself as blending “the rugged charm of the Old West with a modern, luxurious experience” and doubles as a millinery workshop offering hat shaping and repair services 2. Its storefront sits on SE Douglas Street in the downtown Lee’s Summit shopping district 4.

Ownership and history

The business is a woman-owned small business 2. Nicole McCullough is listed as owner 1. Smith Hat Company operates a second hat bar at 7312 W 119th St in Overland Park, KS, but remains an independent, locally owned KC-metro operation rather than a chain 1. Founding date is not yet sourced.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Nicole McCullough LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-mccullough-40588523b/ — asserts: Nicole McCullough is Owner of Smith Hat Company; second hat-bar location in Overland Park, KS. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Smith Hat Company official site. https://smithhat.com/ — asserts: woman-owned small business; 211 SE Douglas St, Lee’s Summit; custom cowboy hats with personalization (hatbands, exotic leathers, silks, embroidery, branding, conchos); millinery workshop and hat bar. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce directory. https://gz.lschamber.com/directory/Details/smith-hat-company-llc-3823910 — asserts: Smith Hat Company, LLC is a listed Lee’s Summit business (active). ↩

  4. Downtown Lee’s Summit directory. https://downtownls.org/directory/listing/smith-hat-company — asserts: Smith Hat Company is a current downtown Lee’s Summit business. ↩

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