It's a way to personalize your look, to stand out while also maintaining your position in the crowd.
It's one of those masculine paradigms - the pirate - like the cowboy and the all-American prep, that crops up from time to time in men's fashion. They do get kind of recycled.
It connoted something like 'I'm a little cooler than you.
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