There is a huge difference between men dressing in warm suits and hats in hot weather, and tzniusdig ladies’ clothing. Women can wear very lightweight material, and snoods, if they desire. The elbow and knee covering does not hinder them and hold in the heat the same way that BLACK suits do. There were bnei Torah throughout history who never owned a jacket and a hat (there were no such things in their day), and I would stack them up against any and all of today’s yeshivah bochurim any day. You are placing too much emphasis on the outside of the man, and not enough on the inside. Don’t judge a “kankan” by its cover. As to the pope remark, he does look ridiculous, but the difference is, he is revered by the Catholic goyim who populate this country and other countries. The non-Jewish world is still the majority.
I very much worry what Hashem thinks. I worry that He might think that we have created an incredible schism in Judaism, based on things that He never told us to do, and that we have made these tafeil things the ikkar of Yiddishkeit, while simultaneously alienating frum youth who might otherwise stay frum, were it not for these non-halachic issues of mode of dress (among other more serious issues). if you do not agree with me, fine, you may bury your head in the sand liek the other ostriches. But it is a fact that we never had so great a problem of teens off the derech as we do now, and that is at least partly due to this type of mentality that says that a Ben Torah (is not a Ben Torah unless he) wears a suit and black hat.