I'd note that the Father wears a proper ranching style cowboy hat.
Cowboy hats are something a person either looks natural in, or they don't. Not everyone who wears one is a rancher or a farmer by any means, but usually a person without a real rural background can't pull it off.
Notably this year Florida lawyer Frank Campman can't. At age 58, Chapman is a retired Florida lawyer who has the thick girth of somebody whose worked behind a desk. The hat he's chosen to wear, now that in his retirement he's relocated to Teton County and become a dude rancher, is right out of 1950s television Westerns and doesn't fit. It looks absolutely absurd. His boots look absurd as well, and he walks like they're hurting his feet. At least carpetbagging Chuck Gray hasn't tried to don a cowboy hat, which with his tiny physical size would be likely to cause him to simply disappear.
Locally, there's a lawyer whose a transplant from back east who wears a cowboy hat with a rolled brim, a gift from his spouse. He's a nice enough guy, but it looks absurd. In contrast, a local judge wears one that looks very natural, but he's from here.
Part of it is, I think, being comfortable in your own skin. We've all heard "fake it until you make it", but in truth, you can't.
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