PBT wrote an excellent comment. “
I agree. I would also point out that in my father’s day O”H, frum men wore ALL colors of hats, black, brown, navy, gray, beige straw hats, felt hats, cloth hats, homburgs, fedoras, caps, and a hat that was a smaller version of a fedora (don’t know what it was called). People were not hung up on the stereotype of what a hat meant based on its description. But wanting to identify with and be like a particular group that wears a particular type hat, is fine, if that is one’s goal.