5ish: “Who says that a shirt needs to be tucked in????”
Who says you have to wear a white button-down? Who says you have to wear slacks and a jacket?
Nobody is mandating these things. The whole point is to look respectable. If one isn’t concerned with looking respectable at all times, they could wear shorts and a T shirt or whatever they want, as some people indeed do. Keeping to a frum dress code and then wearing it in such a way that doesn’t look respectable is just kind of ironically off point. It’s kind of like when people who want to always daven with a hat over their yarmulke put on a baseball cap when nothing else is around.
Am I saying that wearing an untucked button-down under a jacket (often just hanging off the shoulders) is barely any better than wearing shorts and a T-shirt? Yes, I am saying that at this point. I understand the look you guys are going for like I’ve stated earlier in this thread, but it just doesn’t look at all presentable. I guess I just lost my status as Chabad’s public defender.