Am I the only one?

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Sounds like me, except for the jeans! I haven't owned a pair of blue jeans in over 20 years. My son, 25 and off to college, has never owned a pair, and my daughter, 21, recently bought the first pair she has ever owned.
Here "cargo shorts" (which we had to define for Jock Scot) are at least as common as blue jeans, and t-shirts and baseball caps and zorries/sandals/flip-flops or Vans or the like complete the Californian's outfit.
I have to wear slacks and a necktie at my Day Job, and kilts and jacket and necktie when I'm piping, so when I'm not doing these things it's all about comfort.
About the Balmoral, wearing one of the hats from my Highland Dress with my ordinary casual clothes wouldn't have occurred to me.
But I do do the opposite: wearing ordinary hats when kilted if at a hot sunny Highland Games.

In Colorado we've some interesting clothing takes. Usual garb in summer is shorts, usually cargo style though I usually call 'em "boonie shorts," t-shirts and some kind of bucket hat if your in the mountains, ballcap in town or bareheaded. Winter all that changes for many is the addition of a sweater, parka if it's really cold, and beanie or as I call 'em sock hat. There's a corollary to the shorts 'n parka thing--when in Glasgow two Februarys ago, most of the teen/20s girls wore sock hats, puffy parkas, mini skirts and some sort of stylish boot. Oh and tights of some sort, that bit right out for Colorado.

In Durango, the saying goes, "What do you say to someone in a suit in Durango? Will defendant please rise."
Dgo was once voted one of the top ten worst dressed towns in America in a USA Today poll.

Having been born in the early '50s raised partly in the Sierra Nevadas, partly in LA (folks had a summer resort) I wore little else other than jeans, still do.

As for headgear, my Mom used to say I was born with a hat on. When I was a kid it was a Davy Crockett coonskin cap, or a cowboy hat or a surplus GI helmet liner or whatever team cap I liked that week. Later I had, mostly all at the same time an Aussie bush hat standard config, Aussie bush hat Robert Mitchum in "The Sundowners" config, several cowboy hats (regular hat, straw hat, 'town' hat), ski hats including a large red wet-look nylon ladies gardening hat with a "Don't Eat Yellow Snow" patch on the front. Later, when I got into the Mountain Man/blackpowder thing, floppy slouch hats with quillwork bands, assorted animal skin hats, several Balmorals and a bunch of "do-rags" as they're called now.

I used to, and still do wear most any of those for most any occasion unless constrained by the circumstance--none of my kids seem to have any fashion vision as regards what I wear at their weddings--stuff like that. Oh, don't wear the fur hats anymore, sold them all off at wondrous profits.