I thought that the men in fur hats and long black coats, with beards and long side curls I saw walking on Saturday afternoons were cool.
15 years after that, I became an Orthodox Jew (albeit not choosing the headgear and levush I found cool as a non-religious 6 year old living in Brooklyn).
I still find Chasidim cool, and admire them for their counter-cultural ways in dress and their pride in their culture.