I still think that we should look differently than the Goyim. Doesn’t it say somewhere that although the Jews reached the lowest level of impurity in Egypt they did not change their mode of dress and that was one reason they were deserving of redemption?
oomis-I still feel like you did not give a straight answer to my question. What does the Rabbi wear out of shul and teaching?
I don’t get what you mean about how people dressed in Poland. When I asked some family members who lived during that time they told me that the assimilated Jews dressed like the Goyim and the frum ones did not. Did it do any good for the assimilated to look inconspicuous? They did not escape the hatred of the Nazis and their sympathizers.
SJS, your coworkers do not dress so formally out of the workplace, do they?