The religious reasoning given is chitzonios miorer es hapnimiyos – basically, the way you look affects what you are on the inside. The example that’s given is that the day people come to work dressed casually, they are less productive. The problem with this approach is that the ceo of Facebook didn’t start off dressed in a suit. He dressed casual and established one of the most successful social media platforms today. There are superstars in the non Jewish world that are extremely successful yet dress casual. Dressing like a penguin doesn’t allow for individual thought. It is crushing personal expression, silencing the individual personalities that if they wanted to be successful, they need to be shunned by the community first. I have seen many very people being called “Goyatz”, simply because they don’t dress the part. It has led to perceptions being all that matters, instead of the individual value within each and every one of us.
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