This is all well and good, but this has nothing to do with black hats. What is being shown here is that dressing a part encourages a person to play the part. And in doing so, becomes the part. But the issue a lot of us have with the whole yeshivish uniform and the thrust of the argument is that the current yeshivishe dress is not the only dress that can be associated with orthodox/frum yiddishkeit. Moshe Rabbeinu did not wear a black hat. I doubt he wore a hat at all. Dovid hamelech didn’t either. Neither did his son. Tanaim, Amoraim, and all those that followed also did not. The black hat is strictly a recent Eastern European development. Most likely born out of copying the aristocracy at the time. If they were wearing pink and mauve streimels, thats what would be yeshivishe dress today.
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