I guess it comes down to what you can afford and how bad we want it. If there wasnt another person in the world but us/you, how would we dress? What would we drive? I wear the most comfortable cloths possible most of the time. For me, comfort comes first followed by reliability etc. Many of us that live here, in the west also see cowboys wearing baseball caps rideing a horse! 45/50 years ago when I first wore a uniform we had to wear those stupid 8 point bus driver hats and neck ties in 110 degree heat on the desert! In the 60s the sheriffs dept by me was wearing helmits driveing cars! I am glad all that changed to where most depts now wear baseball caps, and I am quite sure the guys that wear them are too!
I like good quality stuff as much as anyone, however I am not into paying huge to wearing something with logos advertiseing their product, or what should be and probley are, $100 hats that sell for $700s to $3,000s with some rare logo or blessing from some "star", or aged by dragging it around tied to a bumper! That is pure BS salesmanship like someone selling you those pet rocks!
All jewlery made is always on sale for over 40% off, buy it, take it back and try getting 10% of that! These people that have to have a rolex to impress some twitt could do the same with a $30 fake that keeps just as good time!
I told this story before. A close friend told me of takeing his family to venice beach california. Thats one of those exspendsive store front areas with beach and the "in" crowd hang out with hopefull musicians etc act out strumming guitars or whatever. Anyway dan said there was a guy playing a guitar real good, and dan was a good player himself. He said a fairly good crowd was there listening and enjoying the music untill someone said loudly, OH! Thats just a sears guitar he`s playing! He said the crowd broke up and walked off! Some of this stuff gets superfical!
