Feif Un: It makes no difference what the origin of an article of clothing is; the point is what it is associated with today. Today if somebody would wear a bekeshah and shtreimel on Purim I would imagine most people would assume that he is dressing up as a chassid, not as a 16th century polish noble. The idea is that we should have a unique mode of dress and language, one that nobody else uses today; not that we need to build our own ones from scratch. I have heard that the mogen david was not originally a Jewish symbol: does that mean that it is any less a Jewish symbol today?
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