“For men, charedi means an Orthodox Jew who wears a black hat or at least a white shirt with a black velvet kippah”
Hmmm…This back hat, is it brim up or down? Pinched or unpinched? What if one substitutes a streimel on shabbos, does that constitute an extra level of charediness or perhaps detract from it? This white shirt, does french cuffed add or detract from the charediness? white on white a mayyla or a chisaron? and the yarmulka, what of one chooses to wear a black kippa that is not velvet? or a blue velvet one? would calling it a kippa detract from the charediness of a person? would calling it a kappel or yarmulka increases ones charedi factor in any way?