Do you think that the Chofetz Chaiam wore a newsboy cap in the street instead of a yarmalke because he thought that he could pass as a regular guy rather than as a frume; and that it was also good for the store’s business.
And the bochrim of Slabodke and V’lozhin also did not wear the frume b’gadim but instead dressed in the most up-to-date goyeshe styles, b’shita.