Reply To: Hat and Jacket at Chuck-E-Cheese???

Wearing a hat and jacket all the time is the uniform of a sociologically identifiable group, the yeshivishe velt. It announces what club they belong to and nothing else. It’s not halacha, there’s no “inyan”,it doesn’t indicate their midos, their level of Torah learning or their spiritual status. It’s just a uniform, like boy scouts. All hassidic groups have their own distinct uniform which separates them from others. There is no value in the uniform itself, it’s solely a means of group-identification.