My only concern with wearing a hat and jacket all day is that then they lose their status of beged ha’miyuchad li’tefillah. Other than that, I have no real opinion on the matter: is one wants to wear a hat and jacket all day, kol hakavod, and one who doesn’t is certainly not doing anything wrong. I don’t see much of an issue either way.
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oy vey kids these days:
“show me in halacha where it says there’s a chiyuv to wear an italian style fedora and an american style jacket at all times and i’ll do it. anything to be more jewish…”
No, there is no halacha that one must wear a hat and jacket all day, and I don’t think anybody is claiming there is. However, there is indeed an inyan to be as “jewish” as possible. We are the mamleches kohanim v’goy kadosh, and we should show our pride at the fact. We know that bnei Yisroel were redeemed from Mitzrayim because they had different clothes, langauge, and names from everybody else: It’s occurred to me more than once that if the criteria for getting out of the current golus was the same, the only ones that would make it would be the Chassdim, the Chareidim, and maybe some of the really Yeshivish…
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SJSinNYC: Depends who you ask.