Three entrepreneurs have come together to create a unique business in the hat- making industry. The company, Harvey Martin (HM), is a mobile store: the owners come to an event, meet with customers to understand their personal styles and desires and then tailor hats on site. HM’s tagline is “custom hats designed with you.”
The venture began in early 2025 when longtime friends and neighbors Julieanne Martin and Anne Ingham, who have a lifelong love of hats (and each a sizeable collection), took a hat for reshaping to a store in Cherry Creek. They each ended up buying two additional hats for themselves and the store owner suggested that they should be in the hat creating and selling business. Julieanne and Anne left the store and realized they could turn “a shared obsession into a craft,” said Anne. “And there aren’t many hatmakers or shapers in Douglas County.”
Subsequently, Julieanne and Anne went to a three-day hat school in Denver. “We learned how to cut and shape and burn and brand,” said Julieanne…