“they held that the black-clad Hungarians and others were wrong in their approach…. “
Mind you it wasn’t only the Hungariams who were black clad and Hungarians or their predecessors didn’t as far as we know intentionally change forsake the appearance of the Tanaim. Mizrachi intentionally changed the appearance of their kipot.
I’m not trying to argue who’s right or wrong… I just think some people were missing the point of the post: “Would Rabbi Akiva Eiger z”l wear a “kippa sruga”?so why do you?? don’t try to be a diffrent type of jew but rather a smaller version of the better jews thats “masai yagiu maasai lemase avosai abraham….”