I think the old style canes with silver heads and whatnot are pretty cool looking for older gentlemen, not these modern medical canes of course. Back then even younger men carried then, not actually leaning on them, but mostly like a self defense weapon: http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/tag/cane/ I have an inherited rosewood cane with a head being a carved satyr, not gonna carry it as it does not match my age and dress, but my grandpa looked pretty dapper with it. Did not actually lean on it tho as he   5a1d  was neither disabled nor fat.