I was reading one of my favourite online magazines (Slate) when I stumbled on this article about Fashion and the Jews, called Shmatte Chic. The article gives a loving synopsis of the history of fashion and the Jews, in light of the success of the Brazilian Jewish designer Alexandre Hershcovitch. The quote that made me smile:
The 35-year-old, whose Jewish grandparents immigrated to Brazil from Poland in the early 1900s, attended a yeshiva and enthusiastically points to his religious background as an inspiration. "I was influenced by the modest Jewish attitude of dress, of not showing the body."
My grandfather (z'l), who was a shoe manufacturer, a proud Conservadox Jew and a man who wore his hat with a rakish European style, is--I am sure--smiling as well.
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