I know what you're thinking; Brain surgery? This reviewer must have gotten the review mixed up with his review for another product. Clearly, a coat rack has nothing to do with brain surgery.Au contraire mon Ami.Okay, now you're thinking: French? This reviewer not only has his products mixed up, he doesn't know what country he's in.Okay, okay, I'll stop fooling around. I know I'm not in France but reviewers have to have a little fun too. However, I'm quite serious about the brain surgery. 😁About 3 months ago I had a craniotomy. This was done to resolve a medical pvroblem called a subdural hematoma.Now, you're thinking: This reviewer has lost his mind. Brain surgery has nothing to do with a coat rack. But, if he had brain surgery, it could explain a lot. The surgeon might have gone a little too deep with his scalpel.Okay, I guess I'll have to connect the dots for you.The surgery was completely successful. However, as my surgeon forewarned me, I had a bad haircut afterwards. The reason is because he had to shave half of my head in order to perform the surgery. So, whether I shaved the other half to even it up, or I wait for the side that was shaved to catch up with the side that I still had hair on, I was going to be sporting a bad haircut for the next few months.Well, I'm not so vain of that I would refuse needed surgery in order to avoid a bad haircut. However, I am vain enough to wear a hat for the next few months in order to cover up this situation on my head. So, I went to Walmart and bought what is known as a Panama Hat. That's the hat at the top of the rack that you see the photo.During the next two weeks, I got three different unsolicited compliments about the hat. So, when I saw another hat at Sears that I liked, I bought it.During the next couple of weeks, I continued to get unsolicited compliments. Then, I dropped off some clothes to donate to the Goodwill Thrift Shop. While there, I looked around, and found two straw cowboy hats I liked, in like new condition, and I bought those.One of these hats needed to have the brim slightly reshaped. So I brought it to a local hat shop, and had them do this. While there, I asked if they ever had any sales.The person helping me said no but told me that they had a clearance center in another part of town. I went there and found a $50 hat marked down to only $20. At this point, I'm sure you can guess that I bought it.Well, now I had five hats and discovered that five hats take up a lot of space on a shelf. It's not like you can just shove them in a drawer like underwear. And, this brings me to the subject of the coat rack.Aaah, now you're starting to catch on, aren't you.I did a search for free-standing Hat Racks on Amazon. The search results contained both hat racks and coat racks. My concern for all of these racks was that, with the style of hats I had, I would not be able to use all of the pegs on all the racks. The pegs on the racks that I saw appeared to be too close together to be able to use all of them. It turned out that my concern was well-founded.On this rack, as you can see in the photo, I'm only able to use four of the six pegs. (For my 5th hat, I found a good place on the wall and attached the hook there.) However, from what I can see in the photos on Amazon, this rack holds at least as many hats as any of the other racks that I saw.At the price, I really like this coat/hat rack. It stands straight up and it doesn't wobble. The wood is an attractive blond color.Some reviewers have criticized this rack for being too lightweight. They say that you must balance the coats you put on it or it will tip over.They are correct that this free-standing rack will tip over if you pile a lot of coats on just one side. However, I've never seen a free-standing coat rack that would not do this. If I needed to pile big bunch of heavy winter coats on it, I would try to solve this problem by fastening it to the floor with either nails or glue or whatever. I suppose that there must be some heavy duty coat racks out there that will not tip over but I've never seen one and, if I did find one, it would probably be very expensive.All right, I think you now owe me an apology for thinking that I was out of my mind. 😋By the way, in case you're curious, the maximum rate of growth for hair is 1/2 inch per month. 😉