Reply To: Traditional clothing choices amongst religious Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jewry

Maran zatzal wore the traditional clothing. But very few others did as well. Most of the Sephardic Torah elite were educated in Ashkenazi Yeshivot with few exceptions like Porat Yosef. Effectively what has happened is that the major Sepharadi poskim are wearing the traditional hard as a sign of their importance (this is Halacha for those who don’t know) while the intermediary level, i.e. Roshei Yeshiva etc, and the rest of the Sephardi world wear traditional western Yeshivish suits and hats.