Wearing all white on Yom Kippur - do you?

ablevaybel

Mon, Aug 27 2007, 11:54 pm

Do you hold by this custom for women? I've been in shuls where I'm the only woman in white and feel like an odd duck, but it's what I grew up with.

AV

baba

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 3:45 am

Yes, but only since I moved to Israel, before then I'd never heard of it. Here (at least the shuls I go to) it's kinda weird if you dont wear white. But besides that, I do it cause I really like what it stands for.

chen

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 7:29 am

Yes if I happen to own an all- white outfit at the time. In my shul anything goes; not all women wear all white but most wear something white, even if it's just a blouse or a hat.

chocolate moose

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 9:45 am

Nah. I actually have a comfortable all black outfit that I wear!

justanothermother

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 9:50 am

I will wear light colored clothing, white if I have it. Also, no gold jewelry. I thought the no gold was a universal minhag, but I see so many women in shul who do.

chen

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 10:48 am

justanothermother wrote:

I will wear light colored clothing, white if I have it. Also, no gold jewelry. I thought the no gold was a universal minhag, but I see so many women in shul who do.

Probably they just don't know. IIRC there's something about this in kitzur shulchan oruch, so it's pretty standard.

amother

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 10:57 am

If you are wearing a white skirt and you are tahor, aren't you nervous?

ablevaybel

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 11:23 am

Actually, since I don't use leather sanitary items, it's not a big deal LOL

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Seriously, I've never worried about it, though watch this be the year...

I thought no gold was pretty universal too, although I've been in communities where on RH it is the custom for women to wear ALL of their gold (!!!) as a segulah for a rich, "golden" New Year.

AV

Seraph

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 11:38 am

If I have white I'll wear it. But not a white tichel, cuz that just looks horrid on me.

baba

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 12:34 pm

justanothermother wrote:

I will wear light colored clothing, white if I have it. Also, no gold jewelry. I thought the no gold was a universal minhag, but I see so many women in shul who do.

I think sfardim dont hold by thatm but not sure, might just be the spanish jews. They say that whatever you are accustomed to wear all the time, you dont have to take off.

chocolate moose

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 4:40 pm

we don't have the minhag to add or subtract anything from our usual yomtov clothes or jewelry or sheitals. just non leather shoes, like everyone else.

Ruchel

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 4:50 pm

I'm the only one in white, yup.

Other women wear whatever they want. A good number are very untznius, make up (!), leather shoes with heels, jewelry... but often these women are those you never see at shul except YK. Not the shomer mitzvos ones.

newmom

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 5:07 pm

[quote="amother"]If you are wearing a white skirt and you are tahor, aren't you nervous?[/quote]

I'd be more nervous if I was wearing a white skirt and had a period!

amother

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 5:20 pm

breslov wrote:

If I have white I'll wear it. But not a white tichel, cuz that just looks horrid on me.

In my community, everyone wears a white tichel, but only some wear all white.

Ruchel

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 5:23 pm

newmom wrote:

amother wrote:

If you are wearing a white skirt and you are tahor, aren't you nervous?

I'd be more nervous if I was wearing a white skirt and had a period!

ditto!

ablevaybel

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 8:24 pm

The shul we attend in the US is primarily attended by Lubavitchers, although the service is more traditional Orthodox. Most of the women aren't wearing tichels, white or otherwise.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only lone woman in white on YK.

Ruchel

Tue, Aug 28 2007, 8:32 pm

ablevaybel wrote:

my dh is the only man is white (kittel) at our shul, so he keeps me company! Tongue Out

ablevaybel

Wed, Aug 29 2007, 9:00 am

That's interesting, Ruchel. My dh won't wear a kittel on YK cos none of the other fellows do, but he does wear all white. So I have company there, like you, on the other side of the mechitza.

AV

amother

Wed, Aug 29 2007, 10:21 am

newmom wrote:

amother wrote:

If you are wearing a white skirt and you are tahor, aren't you nervous?

I'd be more nervous if I was wearing a white skirt and had a period!

Well, I meant that if you see a stain you can become a niddah (we don't wear white underwear when tahor etc) Rolling Eyes

amother

Wed, Aug 29 2007, 10:28 am

newmom wrote:

amother wrote:

If you are wearing a white skirt and you are tahor, aren't you nervous?

I'd be more nervous if I was wearing a white skirt and had a period!

Same here. Though in that case I would ditch the white skirt in favor of a dark one and make do with a white blouse, jacket, hat etc.