Sam2 –
The Rema does not mean we should wear black, white, or purple. He means we should be muvdal. However the community decides. If the Jews are all wearing green glasses then the Rema would say it is proper to wear green glasses. And you don’t have to hold of the Rema. I am only saying that they aren’t coming from nothing.
Josh31 –
And so what if it’s an innovation? They have a basis for such an innovation, the Rema. And if you ask why they need to do more then previous generations they will simply say that previous generations weren’t as integrated and accepted by the general society and so they didn’t need as many reminders to differentiate between us and them, mah she’ein kein nowadays.
frumnotyeshivish –
You are saying a vort where there isn’t one. Rashi says that if he says this we are worried because ?????? ????? ?”? ??????? ???. Pashut p’shat is that this is their minhag, so we are concerned he may be one of them. You don’t see anywhere that to be makpid on a certain kind of dress is antithetical to Torah. That is a falsification of Torah. It may not be required, but it is not antithetical.