[Avodah] kosher stores, rechovi

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From: menucha <menu at inter.net.il>
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>> Is the restriction against long skirts found anywhere in  psak? I seem
to be finding the opposite.

Meshane Halachot 12,316. In  response to a specific question about
wearing long skirts which are in "moda"  the answer is "halevai veyelchu
kulam besmalot arucot"

Also, shu"t  Shevet Halevi 5,75,2 is quite clear in his opinion that
shok is till the  ankle - even exempting them from wearing garbayim!!!!
So where does this  "rechovi" bit come in?

menucha

rechovi = something you see worn on  the streets, in other words what's
"in" in the non-frum/non-Jewish world but  not acceptable in chareidi
society, even if it is not tehnically un-tznius,  such as when long,
long skirts sweeping the streets were "in".

***  Rena

 
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If the choice is mini-skirts or floor-length then yes, halavai they should  
all wear long skirts.  But.
 
When nobody wears skirts to the floor, that style is too eye-catching to be 
 modest.    It may be that in Israel it has become so common  among the DL 
in recent years that it is no longer attention-getting, but  that is 
certainly not the case in the US.  And obviously that  style is still considered 
too eye-catching to be modest in charedi  neighborhoods in Israel.  I would 
add that the women whom my mother  calls the "Shmatta Ladies" -- the ones who 
ostentatiously shroud themselves in  black from head to foot -- are immodest 
in the most profound sense of the  word.  Tznius means when you walk down 
the street you look normal and  nobody gives you a second glance.
 

--Toby Katz
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