squeak:
No reason to get nasty to make your point.
I was careful to quote the Rav who I heard this piece of “his story” from. Just keep in mind that just because you haven’t ever heard of it, doesnt negate its veracity, and frankly at this point I am more open to believing his version than yours. If you think back to the time of early chassidim, you dont find that the “litvaks” dressed differently than chassidim (for example, there is a picture of the netziv wearing long payos). So it makes sense to me that at some point the dynamics changed.