Brian,
Depending on the the show, I often times wear a jacket and tie......but I ALWAYS wear my cowboy hat! People have come to know me with the hat on, and several years ago when I switched from my old brown hat to a "silverbelly", everyone noticed, and commented that they would have to get used to recognizing me in the new hat. I have attended a couple of very low key shows where I wore a baseball style cap, and folks commented that they didn't know me without the cowboy hat.
It just goes to show that the public comes to recognize certain features about a maker, and it's usually in the makers best interest to keep up the image they present to the public.
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