The entire levush of chassidim is the garb of the Polish nobility of yesteryear. It doesn’t get more non-Jewish than that. If anyone wants to say that the Polish do not dress like that anymore, that’s true, but the first Jews who started wearing that levush were already going against the halacha, in those days. Everythign we wear, schooluniforms on our kids (as was already pointed out), suits, shirts, dresses, shoes, jewelry. etc. are the levush of non-Jews. We have to wear SOMETHING, for heaven’s sake. As long as it is tzniusdig and covers the body, it should not matter if it is silk or burlap. We have worn both. Jeans are just blue cloth. As long as they are not ripped and are clean, I cannot fathom how anyone can complain about it. We are too hung up by what is on the person, than by what is IN the person.
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