CharlieHall: I actually had that argument with a Skvar Chosid when I saw Moshe Rabaynu with curly payos in New Square. I had to enlighten him what the posek stated when he first came to Midyon. He looked like an Ish Mitzri!! Yes, there are great pshatim on what that means. But the poshet pshat in Posek he looked like a regular Egyptian. Sorry, he looked like an Egyptian prince. Do people think Egyptian princes had curly payos??
The Torah explicitly states that Moshe was chosen because he had a heart and cared for even his sheep. Not that he was a TaLmud Chochum, or was even a Nasi in Israel. He was a jew that cared about other jews. That is what is important. Hats, or yarmulka’s mean nothing if us jews do not have ahavas chinum.