Ok, so if a person wears a shtreimel and like the look and feels comfortable with it, then he is chassidish (excluding yerushalayim). If that person says that he is MO then something is wrong with him.
Wearing a streimel makes you chassidish?
I suppose if I wear a black hat/white shirt and slacks but proclaim myself MO then something is wrong with me too?
Since I don’t follow any one mehalech (I mix and match from different mehalchim in my life) does that mean that I have to mix and match different “uniform” parts?
Sorry, as I said earlier, I believe people are defined by their beliefs and actions — not the clothes they wear. I don’t believe that wearing a streimel makes you chassidish. Granted, most people who wear streimels are chassidish, but to say that the streimel makes you chassidish is confusing the cause and effect.
The Wolf