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Many yeshivos today require white shirts, what is the reason for this?
The boys would never wash the shirts if they weren’t white.
That’s why girls are permitted to wear only black, because they’ll do the laundry even if you can’t see any dirt on it.
Why do married guys wear white?
Because they are like malachim.
PBA: Why would they stop washing their shirts just when they get a free, full-service laundromat?
when you dress in a respectable way, there may be a slight chance that you will act in a respectable way.
now don’t start attacking me that I am saying that colored shirts are not respectable. All im saying is that White shirts are. Im addressing the opening post, not the title (each which address a different issue, by the way).
White is for Shabbos, Yom Tov and weddings.
The term colored shirts is offensive they prefer to be called
cotton-americans.
Completely unrelated-
Just my observations from Rosh Hashana and the very modern shul I attended:
I really, honestly, truly don’t care what color your shirt, suit and yarmulke are (though the guy dressed completely in pink was a bIT much). My only pet peeve, however, is that it’s really not bakavodik on Rosh Hashana to wear a Yankees yarmulke.
It was just a really funny image at an unfunny time by kedusha when the guy opening the aron at the end was all solemn but in this sports theme yarmulke.
/endrant
Josh31 is correct, and I don’t wish to feel dressed for Shabbbos when going to work or on Sunday Stroll, so will only wear a white shirt on Shabbos, Yom Tov & Simchos.
Please bear in mind, that in olden days, when laundering colored shirts, the dyes would leak and ruin white shirts in the same wash. Withe massive improvement in technology, this is a thing of the past, and color shirt don’t run when being laundered, not even red & black shirts which used to be the 2 most notorious colors. so they remain honorable looking and don’t ruin white shirts being laundered with them.
The Yankees need all the help they can get.
lol Goq
I’d assume wearing a yankees Kipa can be considered hazardous to your health. Don’t try to start a Machlokes in Shul!
Goq is 100% correct (on his first point, not about the Yankees) the OP is completely racist!
Re the Goq’s first comment: Please have some rachmonos for Americans who have suffered insult and degradation since their ancestors came here as slaves. I find the shifting fashions in language confusing, inconsistent and distracting from the real issue, i.e., respect for colored people, or people of color, or Negroes, or blacks, or Blacks, or Afro-Americans, or African Americans, or African-Americans.
But your comment was funny, in its way.
goq- that is bloody funny.
Thanks all.
nfgo3- I find the term African-American to be offensive. It seems to insinuate that they aren’t fully American. Why am I called a white American and they African-American? Are they less American than I am?
It’s a style. Styles vary, constantly. You can probably guess the year from a picture based on the styles, even of frum people in yeshivos. While there are some halacha (dress up for Shabbos, follow what your Rosh Yeshiva says at his yeshiva, don’t embarass your spouse, etc.) – it’s fashion. If it really turns you, study anthropology and write a thesis on frum fashion.
@Goq – +1!
I think it is wonderful that think that white shirts have become the norm in the yeshiva world. I am troubled , however, that almost every bochur and yungerman feels compelled to send their white shirts, on a daily basis, and at great expense, to the Asian American laundry.
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