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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it depends. Like if you are married to a person of Indian heritage and you go to an Indian wedding, yes you can wear a sari no problem, lots of non-Indian people do this at weddings even if they are not married in, because saris are beautiful and it’s considered a respectful way of embracing the culture and traditions.

On the other hand, if you married a Jewish woman (who is not orthodox) and then wanted to dress as an Orthodox Jew, I’d consider that weird and disrespectful on like 4 different levels.

The detail matter here.[/quote]

What does to mean to dress like an Orthodox Jew?[/quote]

Lol like Orthodox Jews marry non-orthodox Jews anyway. [/quote]

PP specified that the spouse was jewish but not orthodox. The idea being that simply being married to a jewish person does not give you carte blanche to play dress up in another culture's traditions.

And there are certain signifiers that someone is orthodox because of the common ways people interpret the rules of orthodox modesty, especially women. You could absolutely dress up like an Orthodox Jew and it would almost certainly be offensive because there is no compelling reason I can think of for doing this. Totally different from just wearing a yarmulke in a synagogue or wearing a sari to an Indian wedding. It would come off as making fun or criticizing no matter how it was intended.[/quote]

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