THIS IS WHY WE DONT DRESS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

People ask all the time. [music] Why do some Orthodox Jews still wear black hats? Nobody dresses like that anymore. That's true. But here's what people forget. This was how respectful people dressed for hundreds of years. Judges, professors, businessmen, leaders. This wasn't fringe. It was normal. Then the world changed. Fashion got louder and flashier and more obsessed with self-expression and status and shock. And some Jews made a conscious decision. We're not changing with it. Not because we don't care about appearance. We [music] care very much. But because clothing always makes a statement, we just refuse to let our statement be rewritten every decade. So the black hat isn't about nostalgia. It's about continuity. [music] It says our values don't deteriorate just because culture did. Those who wear black hats are trying to make one thing very clear. We didn't fall behind the times. The times lost their way. And we didn't lose ourselves trying to keep up.