Dozens. Lots of ball caps that I have bought as souvenirs or received as gifts: sports logos, farm/trucker, golf logos.
Also, my family has a genetic predisposition to collect hats as a hobby - interesting stuff - top hat, pith helmet, shtreimel, straw boater, bowler, drum major, fez, deerstalker, military helmets, etc. I gave all of my collection to my sister years ago, and when she passed away, her combined collection went to a cousin.
I have a big enough head* that the standard “large” hat is too tight. Uncomfortable and sweaty, so I did without. It was only decades later that I finally found a mail order source of hats big enough for me and for the first time in my life wearing a hat wasn’t an ordeal. I now have exactly two: a brimmed hat and a baseball cap. I wear them if I’m feeling particularly oppressed by the sun but usually just do without because I never got in the habit.
I find the whole thing odd. If a friend came over to do me a favor and asked to borrow a hat, I wouldn’t tear into him for not having one. If a friend said they didn’t have a hat to loan, I wouldn’t get upset.
The hats I wear the most are my cold weather watch caps/toques/beanies. One’s black fleece, and the other is knitted wool.
I have probably 4 baseball hats, but I rarely wear them unless I expect to be out in the sun for an extended period. And I always think I need a better sun hat when I do. Right now, I’m leaning toward a cheap straw cowboy hat- they were originally working hats and are good at blocking sun, while being light and cool.
Apparently I have a lot of hats. I have about 7 baseball caps from different places I’ve traveled to like Arizona, Kenya, Amsterdam etc. I have 3 sunhats and 2 Tilly hats. I’m in Canada so I have all sorts of toques - fleece, knitted etc. I even have a hat with built-in mosquito netting to cover the face and neck.
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Off the top of my head, I have several ballcaps (including one with a Ferenghi logo), a straw sunhat, an Indiana Jones hat, a tweed hat, and a Blues Brothers type fedora. Plus a few knit pullover hats for winter.
I do not own a single hat. Not one.
So if you asked to borrow a hat, I couldn’t help you. But I wouldn’t give you a hard time about it.
No point making a fedoral case about it, that’s for sure.
I own two dozen baseball caps–though funny enough none of them are for baseball teams(or any other sports team).
Being in New England I use to own Boston Red Sox and Patriots caps but I got rid of them because I don’t actually watch baseball and football respectively. I got tired of people occasionally asking about both teams and having to either awkardly explaining I actually don’t watch or BS them into agreeing.
Count me as one who only has a few ‘useful’ hats like baseball caps for being out in the sun (brim forward to shield my eyes, it’s not the 1990s any longer), wool cap for cold, windy days, and a hard-hat (when I am trimming the trees in back).
I am glad we are no longer in the era of men wearing non-useful hats* as a near-mandatory statement of fashion (as opposed to, say the first half of the 20th century - and probably the centuries before as well). What purpose does wearing a fedora on a clear night serve? IMHO, nothing.
I’ve always disliked hats, and I loathe ball caps. That said, I have a straw sun hat for prolonged sun exposure (because of meds I take), and I have an oilskin hat so I can walk in the rain without a damned umbrella (which I hate more than hats) and avoid being stabbed in the eye by my wife’s umbrella.
I don’t wear hats outside of work. And my work hat has my name on it, so I can’t lend that one to anyone. I find it strange that you think someone should own more than one hat as if a person even needs a single hat in the first place.
I have a baseball cap for summer (only when it’s very sunny), a woolen knitted cap for winter (only when it’s very chilly), a Turkish cap I got as a souvenir from Istanbul 25 years ago and a straw hat I got through a liquor promotion (one straw hat for a round of three Caipirinhas, and at the end of the night everybody wore a straw hat and we all found that funny). The latter two I almost never wear, though the Turkish hat suits me very fine.
I’m not a hat guy, as most of my generation and younger.
If you’ve got to be mad at someone, I’d get mad at the wife for taking the “emergency hat” for whatever reason. I’d focus my efforts on getting to the bottom of the “whatever reason”. Maybe she hates that freaking emergency hat and is trying to keep you from wearing it ever again. Have you seen it since or is it still conveniently missing?
But I think that if she is driving your car into a situation where an emergency hat is required, she should bring her own damn emergency hat instead of stealing yours. With a wife like that, you better run out and get an emergency “emergency hat”.
I mean, this may seem like a silly discussion, but so is a discussion of how many hats your friend owns and is he holding out when he tells you he only has one hat.
BTW- I looked in my closet and I have nine hats. If you were a friend and wanted to borrow a hat because your wife hid your emergency hat, I’d probably lend you one. But if you needed one of my hats that much, I’d get to pick it. And you’d probably end up doing yard work in a floral print newsboy cap.
I have one baseball cap. I wear a size 7-3/4 and the “One Size Fits Most” adjustable caps don’t fit me. Until I get another free fitted cap this will be all I have.
I have a couple of straw hats that I wear occasionally during the summer on relaxed occasions where I’ll be out in the sun, like at our Friday afternoon farmers’ market that won’t be happening this year.
I also have two or three baseball caps around here somewhere; I haven’t worn them in years, but if I were doing outdoor work where I needed to keep the sun out of my eyes, I’d probably hunt one of them down.
I have two baseball hats, both received for free from work with my company’s logo on it. I don’t like to wear hats generally, because I find them uncomfortable and they make my head itchy. If these two hats hadn’t been given to me, I’d own zero hats.
I’ve actually been wearing one of them occasionally since lock-down, because my hair is starting to get in crazy-guy territory, so I throw it on less I scare children when I take the dog out for his walk first thing in the morning. The other hat is red with the logo in white, and I’ll probably never wear that one, because red baseball hats with white writing have been ruined forever.
Feeling passionately about how many hats someone owns seems incredibly odd to me.
I have about 6 baseball caps of various sports teams, but I hardly wear them. Maybe when I am going to watch a game or race with other people.
That’s a real plus. 
I have a bunch of hats, wear one at a time. Baseball hats are worn in the normal, brim-forward way, unless I’m shooting in portrait mode, in which case it’s turned around so the brim doesn’t interfere with the camera. Turned back normal when camera comes down.
I’d go w/o if I didn’t bring mine & probably wouldn’t lend one to someone other than my gf. ICK!
