I love that you are so open minded and I wish more people were too. I’m just surprised that a person who seems so non judgemental would care about how another dresses.
Now I do wonder if anybody has gotten a heat stroke from wearing a suit in the park…
Well, thanks for that, anyway… I do care about how people dress when they bedavka dress in an uncomfortably inappropriate way in the misguided belief that this shows they have “grown” in religious observance. It has been stated so many times already, that I am surprised that neither you nor other people who have expressed this view see that they make my case for me. Every time you label a yeshivish levush as being a sign of “growth” because it shows the bochur trying to “better” himself, it by extrapolation implies that the LACK of that levush shows a LACK of growth, or a downword spiral. That is, I have to say it, just a tad gaivedig for a frum person to feel that way about either himself or to view another person negatively for not wanting to live that way. I guess if you can’t see that point, for whatever reason, then there is no purpose in discussing it further. I am not trying to convince you I am right. There is no wrong or right here. There is only my desire to sensitize some people and raise their awareness as to how it feels to be the one who is deemed in need of bettering ourselves, by those who believe themselves to be more highly evolved religiously because they wear a certain levush, even when it looks really hot and uncomfortable.