[Avodah] Tznius

[menucha]

sorry to confuse your speculation with the facts but the reason we wear
long skirts is halachic. based on the more machmir opinion of definition
of shok.

am i repeating myself? yes. probably as many times as i state this
(with or without sources) people prefer to make up reasons for this
chumra rather than accept it as a case where those who they feel "less"
than them are more machmir than them.

shavua tov,
menucha (who is seriously wondering whether she should give up......)

> RZ in Israel and some Lubavitchers and some borderline RW in America 
> often wear ankle-length skirts, but mainly for fashion. 

> In the past ten or twenty years, there has been a kind of fashion 
> movement among certain groups of RZ in Israel who have been influenced 
> by the chareidi community.  Their conscience no longer lets them go 
> bare-legged, because of the way chareidi women and chardal women 
> dress, but they don't want to wear stockings either, so in this group 
> you do see the pattern you've mentioned -- long skirts with sandals, 
> no stockings. 

> --Toby Katz