Reply To: Yeshivish Clothing

Dear Simple,
My point about traditional dress. The Yeshivish clothing is the same idea as the Amish, Maasai, Saami, the gho in Butan, or the traditional dress in Sardinia. This is the clothing we wear, for no other reason than we wear it. At one point it was not distinctive. A certain fashion stayed in place, even as the people wearing it slowly modernized. There was no identification when it was a regular means of dress, and there should be no meaning to it today. Whatever meaning there is, cannot be from the clothing associated with the activity. Because all these groups are doing the same activities as people who do not have a distinctive mode of dress. The only meaning comes after the fact that the group wears it. And they could make up whatever meaning they want. Who cares?