Cap sleeves | Imamother

↑ Atali

Sun, Jun 21 2009, 9:24 am

sky wrote:

Atali wrote:

As promised, I spent a long time this shabbos researching this...

Thanks for such a detailed answer. I did hear from someone who spoke to Rabbi Falk directly that there is no problem waring sleeves that are tight on the arm. She is a seamstress who alters wedding gowns and was very upset that girls wanted their sleeves skin tight so she called him and it sounded like it was not a problem. I've been told that by my rav who is against cap sleeves, and pretty strict on tzinius. He is not agains the cap sleeves because of the tight sleeve underneath, he is against it because other reasons. He doesn't like the tight sleeves, but says it is not assur like other tight areas - It has to be completely covered. The leg has to be covered - but lets say 30 denier is ok (for me) you can still see part of the leg through there - but with a white tight sleeve you can't see any of the arm. In fact he reviewed a tzinius booklet recently and would not allow them to put in that tight sleeves are assur. (He also didn't want to put in the cap sleeves are assur - just that they are not recommened)

That is strange because I looked in Rabbi Falk's mekoros sefer (not Oz V'hadar Levusha, a detailed Hebrew tznius sefer written for men) and he wrote what I said, that the shape of the arms can be shown but it cannot be skin tight. Perhaps she should check again about what he meant by tight.