A Number for Every Hat

If you own just a few hats, individual names might work, but if you own many hats it is much easier to number them. The first hat is numbered "1," the second hat is numbered "2," and so on up to "500."

Now you could ask for "hat 32" or maybe send "hat 84" out for cleaning. If you add new hats to your collection, you can assign each one a new number in sequence. By using numbers to designate hats, you have a never-ending supply of hat names.

Collections of things often have acquisition numbers like these so that the items of the collection can easily be identified.