ChanieE: You sorely missed the point. The Gemorah cited Kimchis specificly as a Tznius lesson to emulate. Even if one finds it difficult to completely emulate Kimchis, to try as close as possible. What reason did you think the Gemorah wrote about Kimchis? To fill space? There isn’t a single unnecessary letter in the entire Gemorah.
And the Gemorah’s point about Kimchis’ children was that you WILL be rewarded for doing these “chumros”. So if you aren’t a Kohen, it’ll be something else. Perhaps you’ll produce 7 Chofetz Chaim’s. 🙂