@Takes2toTango:
Your basically saying that one must cave in to social pressures if they live in that society. Thats no different then saying that you must live up to the joneses and the Goldstein’s.
This concept of living up to societies is actually the recipes for a downfall. I truly hop you find a striped white shirt guy.
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1. The torah tells us to go with the rov, with the rabim, the majoirty.
2. It also tells us to go along with society, yes to a point that’s why we have rabanim and we know if something is against the torah etc, and it’s a fine line.
3. Your argument is just not valid. Is a doctor who wear a wear coat “keeping up with the other doctors”? No! It’s his uniform. iT’S a dress code.
And like DY said just now, and I SAID myself earlier, as a woman I also have to wear the dress code. Nowadays people are anti society, telling us what to do. Isn’t it funny how you give this argument of “keeping up with everyone else” when those same people who wear colored shirts to NOT keep up with everyone else are wearing the latest fashions in colored shirts, socks etc.
Do you know of people wearing colored shirts, that think they should not be a part of a greater society and don’t with to follow any latest fashion trends too? I only know of one such person, a good friend of mine, and bezrat Hashem she will find a bochur like that too…but I don’t see very many…
Takes2toTango, you think ONLY yeshiva bochurim get called in? When I was in high school I got yelled out by my principal when I ran into her at the local day camp I worked at and I was wearing a plain black skirt down to the floor. It wasn’t tight, it DEFINITELY covered my knees, it wasn’t bright, or eye catching, but she told me I shouldn’t wear it cuz it wasn’t dignified and didn’t look like a proper bais yaakov. (Long skirts are a big no-no is bais yaakovs).
Don’t act like you hold a monopoly on frustration with society’s rules.
And even secular society has social rules, a sort of uniform, etc….