I think this a "Functional Shoes vs. Cute Shoes" sort of a Straw Dog argument. Let's just say I've never worn a red hat for the amusement of my chums before. In my red-hat-wearing experience, all amusement has been entirely unrelated to hat color, with the exception of the costume party where I won a bottle of vodka for being clever enough to wear a mask which was a print of a picture of my own face..and I grumbled the whole night that my printer sucked because it made everything too red.