pba: I’m pretty sure I know the Mishpacha article you’re talking about. If we’re talking about the same one, it was a very misleading piece albeit unintentionally. It reported that a Yerushalmi tailor claimed that the levush he makes was the levush the avos wore. Then it reports that chassidish levush was banned (it was about 150 years out of style when that happened). There is no evidence, Mishpacha articles notwithstanding, that the avos wore striped caftans that buttoned right over left. They also probably did not wear shtreimlech made from the tails of animals native to northern Europe.
Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook defined Jewish Levush as “tzitzis and tefillin.”