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August 19, 2013 10:44 pm at 10:44 pm #610402scuttle613Participant
Serious question:
What is the origin or reason for having lace in a kittel? Is this a minhag of only certain groups?
Why isn’t this beged isha, at least in our times?
August 20, 2013 11:45 am at 11:45 am #971617LevAryehMemberI’ve never seen a woman wearing lace on her kittel.
August 20, 2013 4:07 pm at 4:07 pm #971618WolfishMusingsParticipantI purposely wear a kittel without lace or embelleshments of any other kind. Mine is as simple as I can find it.
Not based on any minhag… just personal preference.
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August 20, 2013 9:12 pm at 9:12 pm #971619LevAryehMemberWolf, I hear that. You will eventually get buried in it, and I assume you are not a Pharaoh.
August 20, 2013 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm #971620the-art-of-moiParticipantlace is a material just like any other. girls and boys shouldnt refrain from wearing the same material as the other sex. that is very extremist and rather disturbing.
August 21, 2013 5:40 pm at 5:40 pm #971621twistedParticipantI have no problem wearing pink shirts, but I would not wear lace on my kittle, so I cut it off, not to bad a job, but not to good looking either. When I was younger, I heard a rov comment that at least for Yom Kippur, the kittle should be more than just similar to tachrichin, but have closed front and be linen like tachrichin. (in my limited experience as stand in chevre kaddisha, I never saw linen. So I sought out a place that sewed them and asked for a set. They chased me away. Maybe it a segula for long life.
August 21, 2013 8:36 pm at 8:36 pm #971622Mayan_DvashParticipantMy Kittel has buttons to close, I can’t waste my time trying to lace it up. Anyway, where would you find (replacement) string?
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August 21, 2013 8:49 pm at 8:49 pm #971623ToiParticipantseriously. i see these guys covered in lace and cant help thinking about Ron’s second hand dress robes.
August 21, 2013 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm #971624ObstacleIllusionParticipantThey’re like lace circus tents. They’re cut so terribly. I’m going to get one made.
August 22, 2013 4:41 pm at 4:41 pm #971625sharpMemberLace on Kittels
Would pair nicely with the four inch stilettos.
August 22, 2013 6:00 pm at 6:00 pm #971626Bookworm120ParticipantLace on a kittel? Seriously? 😀
Okay, I’ll have to pay more attention to what people are wearing this Yom Tov (not that I’m going to pop my head over the mechitzah)!
I’ve always associated lace as being on girls’ clothes, but I don’t see why it can’t be on a kittel, even if it sounds so … so … unusual. 🙂
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