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Where did the black velvet kipa originate?
It originated from frum jews. The more velvety, the more frum you are.
Its of utmost importance.
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Inferiority complex
The pass U.K. says when moshiach comes “efraim won’t be jealous of Yehuda”
You are considered an adam chasuv if your wear a black velvet kipah segurah peeking out from under a beaver skin borselino
Velvet isn’t per se “frummer”, but the frummer tend to wear velvet. It was the original default yarmulka. The other types of yarmulkas, i.e. kipa sruga etc., came later originally by people who wanted to effectively make a statement that they’re not like those frummies wearing velvet.
Lol autocorrect,
Passuk
Kipa is not a new thing
For Sefardim it may be newer, since many Sephardim didn’t wear a yarmulka the whole day. Some frum Sephardim don’t even today.
Regarding velvet, that’s the historical background.
You have too much free time on your hands if this is a topic of conversation.
It is a mitsvah to wear fancier clothes on special occasions, and velvet is fancier than regular cloth. It not “frummer”, its “fancier”, but sometimes there is a good halachic reason to dress up.
If you wear a plain cloth kippah on weekdays, than you can switch to velvet on Shabbos. If you want to look like you are wearing Shabbos clothes all week (e.g. to show you want to be considered prosperous and self-important, e.g. a lawyer whose respectability is his stock in trade), you might prefer velvet rather than plain cloth on weekdays.
Terylene > all other materials
It’s nice, if you take care of it properly.
Yabia: What types of material represents what type of crowd/affiliation among Sephardim today?
Probably in America. Go wear a turban, if you don’t like it.
And where are the boundaries….if wearing a small black velvet kipah on Shabbos (to distinguish it from your weekday cloth or knitted kipah) why not wear an elegant black velvet suit on Shabbos (rather than just cloth) since it covers so much more landscape and will certain attract more attention to your frumkeit as defined by your efforts at kavod Shabbos and hidur mitzvah. Some would argue it is certainly more shabbosdik than even a silk or satin Bekeshe. Yes, you might be mistaken for an Elvis impersonator in the black velvet suit, but only by goyim.
only a kippah serugah, which has micro-holes to allow wisdom to enter has both utility and kedusha 🙂
Isn’t it more of an inyan of minhag hamokom? If a sephardeshe bochur from Morocco studying at a kollel in EY meets a frum girl from a Litvish family in Gateshead studying at Seminary for a year, and they get married and move back to the UK to live near her family, it he obligated to trade in his kipah segurah for a black velvet yarmulke??
Fashion is not frumkeit (well, wearing pants are, but since the goyim also wear pants no one realizes the halachic significance of wearing pants). If the goyim went back to wear skullcaps, no one would notice that Yidden wear them as well.
The type of head covering often shows ones affiliation. just ask those baseball fans who wear a cap with the interlocking ny and those whose cap has the letter B in bosox font.
What does wearing a white yarmulka show affiliation with? Some of the old timers wear white.
Velvet shows you a Chareidi. But… theres all opinions
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