” “Tznius and yiras shomayim are things that are all around and permeate every aspect of our lives…” Yes, yes, yes. BUT you can’t have kedusha IF you don’t have tznius in clothes.”
Okay, so here’s the problem. You may not understand this but Hashem doesn’t share his “books” with us. We don’t know which humans have sinned, we don’t know which have not. How you can even have the chutzpah to think you can determine your rebbes cheshbon in shamayim by looking at him and listening to stories is a huge disrespect to Hashem Who ALONE knows the inner thoughts of us all. Period.
Our gedolim and rabbeim are HOLY yidden, not because we think they are god, super human, or free of sin (something we would have NO way of knowing), but because they surround themselves in kedusha. Their yeshivos, offices, kehillas, speech, approach to others is filled with kedusha. And their homes are surrounded by and filled with kedusha thanks to the akeres habayis who is ALWAYS the personification of tznius is behavior and dress.
Did you ever meet the wives of our gedolim, did you ever read stories about them or talk to people who knew them? These women, the akeres habayis of our gedolim made sure their husbands were surrounded by kedusha. Which, as you see in the quote above above, is the souce of yiras shomayim and cannot be found where there is a lack of tznius.