yitayningwut – We don’t all know that. The point of oc53:18 is that caring about the color of one’s clothes or the type of one’s footwear in public can be an indicative sign of apikorsus. The Mesorah would seem to be clear that worrying about how others perceive your clothing is not a Torah value EVEN if you misguidedly think that it help your Yiras Shomayim (not that if it helps your yiras shomayim you should necessarily stop – m’toch shelo lishma ba lishma but you should know that the source is not holy). As to the Hevdel, a Yarmulkah is as big a hevdel as you could make – much bigger than a white shirt.
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