Editing The Chassidic Attire (section)

==== Kneitch hat ====
Expanded entry - [[The Kneitch Hat|Kneitch Hat]]

Today most chabad chassidim customarily wear a folded hat called a "kneitch hat" named after the "kneitch" - the "fold" in Yiddish. This hat is built with inward folds ("eyes") on both sides, and along the dome of the hat there is a crease along its entire length.

Some say that wearing this hat was first seen with the Rebbe Maharash, who when traveling would wear elegant merchants' clothes so that he would not be identified. Later, the Rebbe Rayatz also wore it in his youth, and there is even a picture of this (see picture 2), although they wore the hat with the brim turned upward.

The chassidim's practice of wearing a kneitch hat began when the Rebbe started wearing a hat with the front brim pulled down sharply, and the central crease in the dome of the hat deeper and wider, with three sides, which received the nickname "chabad triangle" (see example in picture 3). When the Rebbe was asked why the brim of the hat was pulled forward in an extreme way that hid his eyes, the Rebbe answered that "for me it's enough to look within my four cubits..."