[Avodah] Taking A Hat Into A Bathroom

[Simon Montagu]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:02 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com
<kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:
> If a person has a hat or jacket which he truly wears only for tefilla (and incidental times, such as to and from tefilla), then indeed, I see no reason why it would be different from a tallis or kittel.
>
> But if he would also wear it to other "dress-up" occasions, such as a wedding or a bris, then it is not truly "meyuchad l'tefilla", then it is merely part of his "dress-up" wardrobe, and it was never his intention to imbue it with the kedusha of tashmishei mitzva, and there would be no problem wearing it into the bathroom.

Conversely, if one never wears a jacket and hat for other dress-up
occasions, I don't see why one would think one needs to wear them for
tefilla. I can understand dressing for tefilla as formally as one ever
dresses, but I don't see where the idea comes from of a special
costume for tefilla.