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In a related note, does anyone know the origin of the “team uniform?” As I recall, Mark Shapiro, in his biography of the Seridei Eish, addresses it. Apparently the Alter of Slabodka, wanting to refine his students and inprove their social graces, demanded that they dress in grey striped trousers, black jackets and waistcoats, shirts with white colars, cravats and bowler hats; the accepted non-Jewish business attire of the day. Our current yeshivish uniform is an outgrowth of the Alter’s desire to have his talmidim look like the refined goyim of the day.