One of the zchusim that redeemed the Yidden from Mitzrayim is that they kept their levushim. These levushim were not the “yellow star”, the ” Kippah, Tallis & Kitte” (and/or Teffilin), rather it was the levushim similar to the intrinsic definition of what we wear today, albeit, without the “modern” twists.
The clothes were tzius both practically and in spirit. The colors and style were modest and humble (comparable in this sense to the modern dress which evolved to a simple white button down shirt and black suit for men and black skirts/dresses for the women as is the minhag in the Torah city of Lakewood).
[The clothes they “borrowed” from the Mitzrim, it says in some seforim that they were only used on the children of the B.Y. because they were too short and not tznius in spirit for adults}.
Minhagim are the very cornerstone of yiddishkeit, hence the “4 questions” on Pessach includes the question of “matbilim” – merely a minhag, but that keeps our Tradition alive.
In halacha it is mentioned (Shulchon Oruch Y.D.) that a minhag is (at times) more chomur than a din. The Gemarah also mentions that b’shas cherum, yidden must give up their lives for a minhag, even the color of their shoes!
It is TOTALLY inappropriate and painful to see on a frum Yeshiva website comments that seem to mock minhagim and say that minhagim is gematriya gehenim, something straight from the Haskalah/Reform movement. They first attacked minhagim, and then they attacked the Anochi of the Aseres Hadibros. They took out parts of davening and then removed the Kail Adon.
I am surprised that the frum members are not howling in protest! B”h I have the opportunity to be mikayim l’shem yichud the mitzvah d’oraysa of Hochayach Tochiach and make this public machoah.