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I don’t recall the article precisely, and it makes little difference to me what the avos wore. But I don’t think the article actually claimed there was evidence as to what they wore.
The main point of the article to me, is that there actually used to be a uniquely Jewish mode of dress- not how it originally developed. The oft repeated canard that the chassidim are just stuck 2 centuries ago is false, since they don’t wear it to be old fashioned- they wear it because it is and was uniquely Jewish.
Again, I am currently wearing dress shoes, dress slacks, a dress shirt, and a green fleece because this middle american starbucks is freezing. My rebbeim don’t wear the levush, so I don’t. If they would have, I probably would have as well.