How Many Hats?

[Baron Kurtz]

Hmmm,

Whippet, Stratoliner, Saks 5th Ave. Homburg, Borsalino San Remo, Stetson Fifteen, Lee Stingy Brim, Newsboy, Purdue baseball cap, beat up old wool felt rain hat. That's 8. Oh, 9 if you add my beret. I wear 'em all. No collector, I. Just need a decent Panama and my hat desires are filled.

bk

 

[Raindog]

I've got 8 altogether if I don't include 5 womens hats that I'm giving to a local college...
1x Stetson range fedora conversion
2x cheapo straws I'm trying to make look good
1x B!Wear newsboy
1x black flat cap by Sand
1x Fake paper Panama hat (got it for a £1)
1x Akubra drover, which is too small despite attacks with a stretcher....
1x Afghan rebel wool hat.
In other words a collection of hats that are mostly in the stages of making good....However, an Akubra fed is on the way....

Jeff.

 

[Andykev]

65 plus

I have "too many". About 10 straws, ranging from Optimo Superfino (two), to Brent Black Cuenca, and Art's blocking of PB's Montecristi's....4 of them

I have about 15 Optimos's., about 8 Art's hats, about 30 "vintage". And another 10 that are "Miller hats, Biltmore, or similar"

So I have OVER 60+ hats.

Yes it is a sickness....

 

[stylin]

Two and counting?

...1. Aussie Indy crusher
...1. Stetson Fur felt Hampton.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

"If you can't balance all your hats at once on top of your head, you have too many."

(I just made that up. Don't ask me what it means.)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Don't forget to count yer shower caps!

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Sure, and feel free to add your moustache covers...

 

[binkmeisterRick]

Gee... I'm not really sure off hand, though I'd easily guess a couple dozen. Included in the mix are (currently) two Adventurebilts, several Dobbs, a Stetson Royal Deluxe, a Prtis, a classic vintage bowler, a top hat, two newsboys (one new and the other vintage), a straw or two... I've got thim brimmed hats from both grandfathers, including a Bavarian hat with the hiking pins on it, and I've got wide brimmed fedoras, which is what I usually wear!

bink

 

[johnnycanuck]

All I can think of right now.
Akubra
Federation (brown), Federation Deluxe (loden), Snowy River (santone), military (khaki), Down Under (black).
Biltmore
Royal Biltmore (black), RCMP uniform hat.
Robert Hall
Stingy brim fedora (grey), pork pie (black), bowler (black)
Tilley
T5 (khaki), T3 (brown), Country cap (black)
Smithbilt Hats
Scout hat.
Justin
Straw Cowboy hat.
Misc.
beaver fir cowboy hat (black), Wool cap (brown), Military Beret (red),
Winter
Two fir soviet/mountie hats.

 

[nightandthecity]

38...

mostly fedoras, berets, 8 pointer newsboys and flat caps....but also a couple of bargee caps, a yorkshire fishermans knitted wool cap, a couple of westerns, USAAF B-1 and B-2 caps, US short billed HBT fatigue cap..

mostly vintage, a couple are vintage style

I also have a collection of WW2 flying headgear but i don't wear them and i haven't counted them....

So I too am one of the sorely afflicted. But compared to my jacket and coat obsession I am a hat moderate.

 

[jamespowers]

"If you can't balance all your hats at once on top of your head, you have too many."

(I just made that up. Don't ask me what it means.)

You didn't say how long I have to balance them. I could probably do that for all of five seconds---after the crane let go.

Regards,

J

 

[Victor]

Heh, i tried that balance act.hard to do but can make a good picture!
I have one Adventurebilt, 2 Open Roads, 2 Akubra Cattleman, 1 Art Fawcett Montecristi and a Vintage Panama that I love but has a damaged crown. Oh, and an old retired Stetson and various bits and pieces

 

[farmerbaker]

Twenty three and counting...

 

[BellyTank]

More than 2, less than 800.

B
T

 

[PutALidOnIt]

Hmmm, let's take a look...we're counting only fedoras here:

Classic furs:
6 Stetson - 1 Strat, 2 semi-Strat, 3 "Bogey" types
3 Resistol - 1 beaver twenty, 1 "Utican", 1 homburg
3 Dobbs - 1 Westward, 1 West (?), Pacesetter
2 Borsalino - older, not sure of models
2 Adam - Velva Superiore (Bianchi), 1 older??
1 Mallory - Dallas
1 Lee - Trinity
1 Wormser (OpenRoad clone)
1 Style-Rite (model?)
3 with "Custom Made" liners - no ID of any sort

Stingies (2" or smaller brim):
1 Stetson Black Lancer
1 Knox twenty
1 Stevens
1 Dobbs Golden Coach
1 Champ Blue Chip

Straws & woolies:
2 PanamaBobs
1 Stetson
Assorted Towncraft, Brent, etc.



That's about it for today...28

 

[penfencer]

1 Fedora
1 Akubra Aussie military hat
1 straw boater
5 hats for my bagpiping uniform including a big feather bonnet

I'm looking for the perfect fedora. The one I own is a bit too small.

 

[Sparhawk2k]

Not Enough...

Only two so far. But hopefully more some day. It was rather depressing reading all the way through to the end of this thread. Made me want to take my last college payment and go surfing eBay...

 

[tonyb]

Way too many and nowhere near enough. I got 40-some, I think, several of which I'd gladly swap for just a couple of better ones. Most of those lesser lids were bought new, and being mass-produced hats of relatively recent manufacture, they just can't compare to the vintage ones. I've been a hat-wearer since my late teens (that's going back quite a spell) but it was only recently that I turned into a fanatic, meaning that I now do my own cleaning and am perpetually on the lookout for nice vintage hats to add to the collection.

 

[John in Covina]

But Seriously Folks!

Ooops! I had writen something and some how hit a button and it was all gone!

Here's the corolation questions:

Liked hats for how long?
Got intereseted in fedoras when?
Got serious about pursuing fedoras When?


Always!

Since watching the 50's B&W Superman on TV which also made me want Double Breasted Suits!

Last November 2005.

Sincerely,

 

[riccardo]

My hats...

I have:
Akubra Stylemaster Steel Gray
Vintage Stetson 7X Open Road
No vintage Stetson Western hat reshaped into fedora look
Vintage Knox Twenty
Vintage gray Bosalino
Panizza felt Kanguroo
Borsalino Country
Stetson straw Ojus
Panama Montecristi fedora style
Panama Cuenca fedora style
Two old hats (not vintage) out of shape
...I'm waiting for another one great Panama Montecristi,this one from PanamaBob, Optimo style

Best regards.
Riccardo.