Putting an arm over your head, putting a baseball cap or winter hat over your yarmulke, etc. are all taking away your respectability. I’m sorry Joseph, but you are not right on this one. Fulfilling the inyan of the double covering at the expense of not looking presentable for davening is not how we pasken. I’m not sure the Chofetz Chaim comments on it since people might not have done such silly things in his day. However, he does clearly hold that a kabbalistic inyan never overrides a pre-existing minhag.
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