You obviously wouldn't submit an original hat design you don't like. But make it something that reflects your gang.
COG soldiers didn't just copy their hat from another gang, and sure the hat itself could have used a bit of improving but regardless their hat still stands out to the point that when you see someone wearing the hat you can straight away tell what gang they are from. Same with ARMY/ magus with the black and purple hoodmask, ifreeze and maybe darkside but that's more todo with the red/ black they use than the masks design

And ebizou, forgot about them but their hat is a pretty good example and they made good use of gif by having the centerpiece spell their gang name

I can't think of any other gang hat off the top of my head that you can look and know who it was for without being told/ seeing the gang tag they're on.

That way your gang has an identity, and the hat reflects that