The Frock Fashion Line Designs Stylish Clothes for Orthodox Jewish Women | New York Post
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2017
- Two Orthodox sisters living in Brooklyn want to break the stigma associated with dressing modestly. Australian transplants Simi Polonsky and Chaya Chanin are the creators of a fashion label, The Frock NYC, which adheres to the dress code required in the Orthodox Jewish community but does so with a fashionable flair.
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Orthodox and Hasidic women - who are required wear skirts or dresses and must cover their knees, shoulders, neckline and other areas of their bodies deemed “immodest” - can now do so while expressing their personal style.
Two Orthodox sisters living in Brooklyn want to break the stigma associated with dressing modestly.
Australian transplants Simi Polonsky and Chaya Chanin are the creators of fashion label The Frock NYC, which adheres to the strict dress code required in the Orthodox Jewish community - but does so with a fashionable flair.
Orthodox and Hasidic women must cover their knees, shoulders, neckline and other areas of their bodies deemed “immodest.”
“To the average person, the stereotype of an Orthodox Jewish woman and many modest-dressing women is that they’re dowdy, unattractive and frumpy,” Polonsky told The Post.
As a teen, Polonsky struggled to adhere to the dress code, prompting her to work on creative ways to cover up without crimping her personal style and forming the basis for her eventual fashion line.
“It was so uncool to dress modest. I didn’t want to be uncool, so how can we coolify being modest,” the designer told The Post.
Shternie Mangami and Zelda Volkov count themselves as big fans of the brand and praise it for making shopping easier.
“It was always hard for me to find cute clothing because of our modest restrictions, and I find that that’s what attracts everyone to them - that they’re so fun and hip and exciting,” Volkov told The Post.
While The Frock’s designs are considered demure by many standards, critics of the label argue any push towards modernity is controversial and hurts the community.
“I can’t believe that this woman in this community or these women are wearing this and promoting this, and what’s gonna happen to our children. If our daughters see this, what’s the next thing?” Chanin said of the reaction she has received from some of her peers.
Rabbi Simon Jacobson explained, “It’s a real raw-nerve type of topic. It touches the buttons.”
Controversy aside, the label has cultivated a following. The owners, who founded the business in 2010, said they started out small by dressing women in their Jewish community but now have customers all over the globe.
The designers see no conflict between their traditional dress code and free expression.
“We live in America, the country that is governed by probably the most laws that you can, and we’re known as the land of the free. So to us, having guidelines and boundaries doesn’t take away our freedom,” Polonsky told The Post.
Jacobson said even though the fashion label is controversial, he believes it is ultimately positive for the Jewish community.
“I love the idea that people are attempting to bridge the two worlds. To show that traditional Judaism is very much with the times, can be very cool, can be very hip, can be very fashionable and beautiful,” Jacobson told The Post.
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I'm Christian and I so appreciate what you do, it's so darned hard to find stylish modest clothes these days!
I know!
YESS
I'm not Jewish but I love to dress in long skirts and not too much cleavage.. so I'm really happy to see this kind of fashion uprising! Hope it will spread also outside the Jewish community. Because normal fashion tends to go for more and more skin these days...
I hate when I see people hype up stores and I check them out.... and it's 170 dollars for a skirt. Like.... stop lol
Thats what I was just about to say! Re-donkulous! What jew would pay for that?!!
You don't dress modestly because it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling. You dress modestly because it is pleasing to God.
I love being an Orthodox Jew
Fashion with modesty! 👍👏 Very sophisticated. I'm not Jewish but I love this a lot!
Thanks :) im jewish from isreal ❤
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@@barbora3169 Wow, you don't really know how happy I am to see this. This is very helpful mate. Exactly what I needed to hear today.
It's weird because in the company ads models are not even following their own modest guidelines
Modesty doesn't mean ugly nor does fashionable mean naked, exposed etc. You can be modest and feel beautiful for ones self.
Again if men look and stair and become attracted then the problem is the men not the women's clothes.
Their clothes are much nicer than a long denim skirt with a long sleeved blouse.
Terrific! Go for it girls!!
i am an orthidox jew i am not chassidish or yishivisha but i am observent i have to cover my elbow collor bone knee and no pants
I really want more clothes that are modest, comfortable yet still attractive. That is impossible, except this is the first I've heard of. I found one and almost bought some, but then I noticed some little odd things, and then I saw that the clothes are for people in the occult. I thought, "figures". I am new to the whole idea of modesty in dress, because I just decided two years ago to commit my life to G-d. Thanks so much, I will check it out!
Yes, because guys start humping the air the minute they see an elbow.
LoL
omg i was drinking my tea and i almost chocked at this
exactly. how is this a woman's fault that a man is aroused? how is this any of my business?
I guess women do too, which is why Jewish men are ALSO held to the exact same standards of modesty, and must cover their elbows/firearms as well.
@@joannaszulc1496 halakha requires the same standards of modesty for males and females.
Wow FINALLY some one who can help us to feel that a human flesh is a very private spiritual thing that should be kept private.
Thanku.
Happy Shabbatt
I am Seventh-day Adventist conservative Christian who love Jesus and has only found Sadness in revealing the flesh.
Traditional orthodox woman's wear is the only thing that excites me !
Honestly, a very long skirt going down pass the knees is attractive. I see orthodox jewish girls at my community college with different skirts and it amuses me with delight how feminine a girl looks with it. It projects beauty too. It makes them look modest, sure. But it also projects enticement. I am sure these older women know what their skirts or dresses can excite a men's visual perception about them with the right fabric material and design.
What a totalitarian way of thinking.
How so? These aren't gender specific dress standards. Israel is a priesthood and the standards of modesty reflect that idea. It's only under modern, European dominated thinking (Western) that modesty is offemsive.
What I am questioning is the guy in the beginning saying that the parts that can arouse a man should be covered. Why should it be covered? If a man cant control himself, thats his problem. A girl shouldnt cover up and have stricter rules becuase a man cannot contol himself.
May I ask, how is a man biologically supposed to control himself from being aroused? We cover those intimate areas to "protect" the men from spilling seed. We believe its wasteful, as we value every single potential of life.
How tf can you control something biological????? It's like asking someone to try not to be thirsty. If a man sees cleavage, naturally he will most likely be aroused. its natural and normal. It can't really be controlled. On the other hand, women CAN control these uncomfortable feelings for men simply by wearing things that aren't super revealing. Different sects have different standards, and some branches of judaism don't care about modesty at all, but the core idea remains. You can't control something that is genetic and instinctual.
Huuummphh!
I love it too ☝️✡️🧕💎👑🎀
I'm Ashkenazi, Mormon by religion,we have strict modest beliefs. I love the clothes,where can I buy them?:) I'm a professional stand in and actress, Sheila Epstein Hunter (IMDb) I'm born in Long Beach LI thank you 😊
Bruce Hunter I believe they’re located in crown heights, Brooklyn. You can look them up on Instagram - thefrocknyc
So is your mother a Jew? Seems that people think Ashkenazim are Jews by default. So I'm wondering why an Ashjenazi would abandon Torah for Mormonism (unless your father is one and want observant and your mom is not a Jew).
Sinners
The Ashkenazi Jews have to be mixed with Christian European blood because they originated originally in the Middle East and don't have darl features at all like the Sephardic Jews from the Middle East. Did the Christians marry into Judaism and convert or...?
What are you asking? Why would we have to mix?
This isn’t modest. Where’s your headscarf?
the 1 on the left looks like she's wearing some kind of hospital gown over her clothes :S
She's making beige great again! LOL
Who has decided that part of a womens body is attractive to men?
no its just beyond those points... not specifically an elbow or collarbone
Men I suppose. Duh! Lol..but men in Judaism have to cover the same parts.
Think about it, what, for instance in lingerie meant for...say for a honeymoon. The intimate areas of our body and the areas surrounding the feeling of intimacy shouldn't be on display.
idk but it's hot !
Dressing modestly is beautiful but to cover up bc a man cant control himself- bs, men do better. Take accountability over your own desires, your not an animal.
slowly the necklines will get lower, the skirts will get shorter.... just wait
Pastor says Jewish fashion is key to the identity of the Chosen People but “Islamist fashion” is an example of manifested wickedness since they’re mid eastern women think wearing veils is fashionable
That all sounds ignorant to me. Much of what is practiced in Islam comes DIRECTLY FROM JUDAISM. It's closer to Judaism in culture and practices than anything the pastor even conceives in his mind.
Snore ......
ehh new yorkers!
first of all those sister are definitely no orthodox in any way. second i ask as an orthodox woman who loves to dress in colorful cloths, what's wrong with the boundaries the Torah told us how to dress, you can dress in lots of stile without showing a knee or an elbow. i think that for those sisters are going down and out of the orthodox or being religious at all, and just making excuses for wanting to be like the rest of the street
Shalom aleichem my friend i just wanted to say that for those who are not experts or inside the jewish community they might classified orthodox as a sort of umbrela term for orthdox/hasidic/conservative judaism, i agree that this girls might probably not be hassidic but they certainly can fit in other orthodoxies. Just saying
lashon hara
The Torah never prohibited ANYONE from wearing beautiful and bright colors, neither did the Sages. That's a Hassidic issue.
@@Morgan-vm3xr Orthidox and Conservative are two DIFFERENT movements among the Ashkenazim. Harris fall under the Orthidox movement, not conservative. Conservative Jews are generally not bound by their traditions to wear frumpy, black and white clothing and HORRIBLE wiggy looking wings. You will find both among Orthodox Ashkenazim. Now if you look at observant, non-European Jews, you'll likely find beautiful colors and modest clothing.
Lol, religion, how infantile