[Avodah] Proper Attire for Bentching

[Prof. Levine]

The following is from  Halachically Speaking, Birchas HaMazon - 
Selected Halachos

http://www.shemayisrael.com/parsha/halacha/Volume%206%20Issue%2012.pdf

One should be properly dressed while reciting bentching.43  Wearing a 
bathrobe is
unacceptable.44  Some say that it is proper to wear a hat and 
jacket.45  The Kitzur Shulchan
Aruch46 says that doing so brings one to fear of Hashem and will 
increase concentration
during bentching. The Chazzon Ish zt"l only wore a big yarmulke and 
did not wear a hat
for bentching. The Stiepler zt"l only wore a hat without a jacket.47


43. V'sein Beracha page 312:footnote 29.
44. V'sein Beracha page 311. See Rivevos Ephraim 5:106, Ashri 
Yiladito 1:page 216:28.
45. See Meseches Berochos 51b, Bach 183, Magen Avraham 5, Elya Rabbah 
16, Machtzis Ha'shekel 5, Kitzur
Shulchan Aruch 44:6, Mishnah Berurah 11, Salmas Chaim 181:page 51, 
Ohr L'tzyion 2:13:3. The Halichos Shlomo
Tefillah 2:73 is lenient for a cholah not to put the jacket on all 
the way, rather over the shoulders is fine. Refer to Vezos
Ha'beracha page 140:4, who quotes from the Chazzon Ish zt"l that the 
jacket may be worn on the shoulders even not
for a cholah, see Orchos Rabbeinu 3:page 207:7. The Aruch Hashulchan 
183:4 holds there is no need for a jacket, see
Tzitz Eliezer 13:13. Harav Yisroel Belsky Shlita says not wearing a 
hat and jacket while bentching is something that
one should grow out of as he matures (Refer to Doleh U'mashka page 111).
46. 44:6.
47. Orchos Rabbeinu 1:74:page 83.

Does the statement, "Wearing a bathrobe is unacceptable." apply to 
women as well?  The author does not say.

I presume that the "Shabbos robes" that are commonly worn by many 
women are not in the category of bathrobe.  YL
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