akuperma:
“While one can often halachic support for a fashion, one should also realize the frum fashions follow “style”, but that frum communities as someone socially isolated sub-cultures have their own “sense of style.” All frum Jews will find a halachic basis for everything they do (in part, that is what defines being frum), but really the bottom line is “it looks good on me””
+1
As for shaitels in general, I’m under the impression that both R’ Elyashiv and R’ Ovadya Yosef strongly disproved of today’s shaitels, and I seem to remember R’ Elyashiv actually paskened that they are assur.
american_yerushalmi:
“This may not be well known in the U.S., but the Chazon Ish favored sheitelach over teichelach (scarves).”
I never heard about that. Do you know why (or where) he said that?
interjection:
“I don’t know any women who dress for other men.”
“Why are the other husbands looking?”
It is highly unrealistic to assume both that 99% of women have never given a thought as to how men might see them, and that 99% of men will never be tempted to look at a woman walking down the street. This is why being mechazek in inyanay kedusha, both tzniyus and shmiras eynayim, is so important.
“If the rabbanim want the women to dress more tzniusly, they should talk to the men about shmiras einayim”
As DY pointed out, being mechazek in one of these areas does not solve the other. Both are important.
“at least as much as they talk to the men to convince them to bully their wives to not wear A-line skirts.”
First of all, I don’t think Rabbonim talk about tzniyus quite as much as you seem to think they do. Perhaps you came to that impression because the only speeches that you hear repeated are the ones pertaining to tzniyus, not the speeches about shmiras eynaim (or loshon hara or learing or talking in shul or listening to choshen mishpat etc etc etc). I have been to many, many speeches (approximately two or three a shabbos for every week of my life) and I don’t think even 2% of them were about tzniyus.
Secondly, Rabbonim rarely “bully” anybody to do anything (if only because it usually backfires). The reason that Rabbonim talk to men about tzniyus is simply because they are the ones who are normally present for the Rav’s speech.