Reply To: When did dressing "yeshivish" start?

I visited the ethnography exhibit at the Israel museum in Jerusalem and their exhibits showed many examples of Jewish dress that were very similar to that of the non-Jews in the same time and place, except during times when we were oppressed and had to wear things like a Magen David. More confirmation confirmed by looking at pictoral depictions of our great sages of the past — I found a photo of Rav Hildesheimer on the internet and compared it to one of Bismarck. Their suits are similar; the major difference is that the Rabbi is wearing a kippah.