Fashions are constantly evolving. The lowly fedora which was an “un-dress” hat similar to a cap, becomes a fancy Shabbos-dik hat. Once no one would be causght dead wearing pants, and now almost all men wear them (some Scots and some Arabs excepted). It used to be everyone wore boots outdoors, and almost no one does now (at least for “dress”). I’ld discuss how underwear has changed but this is a family site. While halacha affects modesty, for the most part clothing styles evolve quite independently. It happens that an Ashkenazi style hat, which originally was a working hat until it became dressy about 70 years ago, has spread to Sefardim. Fashions change. If you dress up like people did 50 or 100 years ago, and walked down the street, people would think you are some sort of historic reinactor.
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