Last, it is very nice of you to deny me stating my feelings in a comment section. Yet you have the temerity to call MY comment gratuitous?
You have no idea if I daven in an Agudah or OO shul. Sorry, you can feel how you want, but not make assumptions about me (who as far as you know, attends Mass every week religiously).
I’m bringing up a Fedora because of the claim that it is the “Mesorah” to wear one, over other types of hats that Jews wore over the ages (yes, including those that the Goyim made us wear). How would you feel if someone wore either a:
1: Cowboy hat
2: Pork pie hat
3: Football helmet
4: Baseball cap
5: Beanie
6: Skullcap
7: Skicap
8: Homburg
to davening? (All of which are “hats”)? Would you think all of those to be “respectful”? Or is your “thinking” originating from your Yeshiva?
P.S. Who says I don’t wear a Fedora?
P.P.S. My real issue with a Fedora? Is that people claim it is Halacha. If you want to treat it as a social construct that identifies the group, similar to a Spodik, Kol HaKavod. If you want to claim it is Shulchan Aruch (or Mishnah Berurah, or even a minhag of Yidden), then I’ll fight you tooth and nail.