Proud Hungarian, why do you say mizrachis break with the dress of the learned in their generation? The frum mizrachis in Israel that dress in black, white and Fedora are the ones breaking from tradition. The learned Mizrachis of Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria didn’t have felt yarmulkas and black suit jackets. The frum mizrachis who moved to Israel only adopted the style 60+ years ago from Western culture and the Ashkenazis in eretz Yisrael… About the same time that coloreful knitted yarmalkas were introduced. Saying that they are breaking from tradition because they don’t dress like Hungarians is wrong. Otherwise, you should encourage them to dress in a jalabiya and Fez. Throughout time in galus Jews adopted more or less the style of dress of the places they lived in, not of their grandfathers’ clothes from last century’s fashion. It happens to be that today black, white, and wide brim is not society’s dress, it’s the frum crowd’s way of separating from society. If anything, the should dress business casual with colored shirts, no ties, and narrow brims. That is the way the MKs and businessmen dress in Israeli society. The Chareidim of today abandoned Jewish tradition of dressing like chashuv members of society.
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