I think I’ll easily admit that when I go on vacation, I dress so that it is not obvious that I am frum, and I deliberately do so.
Mobe’s proof was actually inapposite, since when I snowboard, I dress in normal snowboarding gear, which necessarily means I don’t look frum. But I’ll concede it anyway.
I do so probably for several reasons. The main one is that I want to be friends with the people I meet on the hiking trail, or on the ski lift, and I don’t want them to focus on my differences.
At the same time, in my regular life, I am in a non-jewish environment, and I deliberately dress like a yeshiva guy, and deliberately do stand out as different.
And I’ll even readily concede that we are supposed to dress and look different, and are supposed to stand out as different–because we are different, and we want to remember that and want our relationships with others to take that into consideration. So perhaps there is a good tayna on me for what I do on vacation.
And that’s what I have to say about this topic. And if you show up at the hostel looking like a yeshiva guy, I will be thrilled.