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It is also very important to understand the while most women do have a natural inclination to want to look pretty and receive compliments on their appearance, a married woman’s main beauty is meant for her home and husband only. The excuse- “I need to dress like this outside and wear this sheitel in public for my husband…” does not hold any weight in the next world and a woman will be held accountable if she is dressing inappropriately out of the house and causing other men to notice her- even if that is how her husband wants her to dress. There is no excuse to cause other men to stumble (and destroy other people’s marriages).

As the Chofetz Chaim zt”l wrote in his sefer Geder Olam (Exact English translation- beginning of Chapter 4):
“The Yetzer Hora should not mislead her that she will be saved from the punishment of Strict/Unmerciful law in thinking that she had to make herself pretty for the sake of her husband so that he wouldn’t dislike her, because truthfully this rationalization is a big mistake, since this excuse (beautifying herself to please her husband) is relevant only to the confines of her house but not a public environment….”

Today everything is upside down- women look terrible in the house for their husbands, and they put on nice wigs when going out where other men see them. It should be the opposite; the wigs should be worn at home and cloth head coverings outside. That is real tznius.