To Cantoresq: you say you could care less. So how much do you care? 😉
Interesting about the talmidim of Slabodka. In so much of Europe there was such poverty that such standards may not have been feasible, as in the apocryphal story of the girl who sewed a button on a jacket a boy wore when visiting for a shidduch; she’d saved the button since it fell off the jacket when the last boy wore it. I doubt that the cut of the jacket was “yeshivish” as much as what was considered basic presentable for those days.