oomis: “I don’t feel that I or my family members should be dressing the way the Yeshivish crowd does”
I’m not saying you should feel the need to dress that way- The problem comes when people associate a person’s level of frumkeit with accessories they adorn… I wonder if it would bother you if someone felt you were less frum because you weren’t wearing a hat and jacket (not saying you should or shouldn’t- that’s for another thread) I think people see people in hats in jackets in sweltering weather, and maybe think in the back of their minds “Oh, so you think you are better than me because you are wearing a hat and jacket at the zoo in 9o degrees.” Where it may look silly to them, like I said… Who cares, that’s between them and the Ribono Shel Olam… Not you
aussieboy: “reason is not because they feel bad that they are so hot.”
I was being facetious… people said they believed it looked silly to be shvitzing in the zoo in 90+ weather in a hat and jacket– I know they aren’t sympathetic towards how hot they are 😉