Reply To: Why did most Litvish stop wearing Shtreimals?

There was a campaign by one of the Russian tsars against Jewish minhogim
One them was you have to change your livush to the modern European garb short jacket or Cossack garb
The litvish pic European garb
The chassidim pic Cossack
And you weren’t alowd to have peyos from that you have all type of styles to hide the peyos
And that is why also women stop cutting the hair