The religious reasoning given is chitzonios miorer es hapnimiyos – basically, the way you look affects what you are on the inside. The example that�s given is that the day people come to work dressed casually, they are less productive. The problem with this approach is that the ceo of Facebook didn�t start off dressed in a suit. He dressed casual and established one of the most successful social media platforms today. There are superstars in the non Jewish world that are extremely successful yet dress casual. Dressing like a penguin doesn�t allow for individual thought. It is crushing personal expression, silencing the individual personalities that if they wanted to be successful, they need to be shunned by the community first. I have seen many very people being called �Goyatz�, simply because they don�t dress the part. It has led to perceptions being all that matters, instead of the individual value within each and every one of us.
