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Joseph
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The Litvish (and Yekkes and Oberlanders) used to wear shtreimals, long rekels and have long peyos too. There’s nothing Chasidish about all that.

Most of the Litvish dropped all that when the Russian government forced them to stop in the mid to late 1800s. (The Chasidim defied the Russians and continued dressing the way Jews dressed before.) This was after the GRAs time and after the Talmidei HaGRA moved to Eretz Yisroel, so they too never followed the Russian goyim’s demand that they drop dressing so ostensibly Jewish. And thus the Litvaks in Eretz Yisroel who follow the original ways of the Talmidei HaGRA continue to wear shtreimals, etc.