Reply To: Why do people still wear black hats?

So it seems as thought the majority of people who advocate wearing a black hat do it to separate themselves from the goyim. This, as anon1m0us said, is horribly oxymoronic because initially hats wore worn to look respectable from a cosmopolitan (and thusly “goyish”) standard. It’s quiet odd that the reason for wearing the hat not only comes ex post facto, but one would need to violate the principle initially (as one would dress like the goyim when hats were in style) only then to have a distinctive look (when they went out of style). Once again, we don’t really have a conclusive answer (outside the societal argument, but that also needs a justification of why people started/continued wearing black hats).