I never considered myself much of a hat guy. That was until I was searching for a column idea, and as I looked around in my garage, I counted 13 hats and four more in the house … 17 hats in all, so ...

Deeragun man Liam Ervine grew up in New South Wales wearing a hand-me-down Akubra, but it wasn’t until he enlisted in the army and moved to Townsville that his interest in hats started.