Body fedoras are actually a lot like footbinding. They're expensive, restrictive, and inconvenient, but they still raise your marriageability by a small margin because of all the people before us who grew up thinking they were cool. But right now we're in the phase where upper-class and urban men have already moved away from this expired garment while the poor people still chase it, because they're so far from wealth it will take 10-20 years to catch up on actual fashion.