I hope all you comment makers read this. 1st of all dressing yeshivish, whether officially mandated by chazal, Torah, your local rosh yeshiva or anybody, should be viewed as the way a consensus of yeshiva bochurim of the past few generations have decided to dress. It is an official uniform. Would any of you non-yeshiva naysaying critics look askance at cadets in a military academy or an expensive exclusive prep school for mandating a uniform dress code, one which will get you thrown out if you do not follow? Of course not. If you don’t like the school’s dress code, leave. If you don’t want to be yeshivish, leave. Does it bother you that military school cadets look down at their non-military teenage peers? Why can’t we all realize that klal yisroel does not have to have a single code of anything but the integral halochos of shulchan orech? By the way, the halocho actually does mandate different garments for shabbos and yomtov. This is generally interpreted as wearing dressy garments. Again look at the goyim. Dressy to them means white shirt and tie and a black suit. Chasidim don’t wear ties but the basic dress is definitely “dressy”. Sandals may be considered normal dress in Asian lands but definitely not in America, Britain, etc. There is nothing wrong with looking at goyim and their protocols unless they are keneged halacho and yiddishkeit. We are at a point in our history when we have to solidify many standards in force today that weren’t mandated or enforced years ago. Part of this was that the influence of the mostly chasidish Holocaust survivors wasn’t as noticed as today. But lastly, why can’t you all keep an open mind to your neighbors or anybody else in klal yisroel and UNDERSTAND where they come from? And saying because “they” don’t have an open mind to me, is not an excuse. Don’t you think you’re better? Shouldn’t you then show an example by having an open mind and understand that not everybody in klal yisroel has the same traditions or codes or rules?
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