Bekishe

During the week, it is customary to wear a rekel, made of wool or polyester, looking like a regular double-breasted suit, only longer.

[2] The bekishe derives from the Hungarian bekes c. 16th century, a sort of fur-lined coat with a collar, fastened by clasps.

smooth) bekishe is solid colored, and is usually worn for Friday night and Saturday morning prayers.

Many Hassidic Rebbes, mainly of Hungarian lineage, wear tish bekishes with various colors, usually either blue or silver, often with black.

The gold and blue striped garments worn by Yerushalmi Haredim such as Toldos Aharon, Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok, Dushinsky, Neturei Karta, Shomer Emunim, Pinsk-Karlin, and many but not all in Breslov and Karlin-Stolin, as well as other non-affiliated Yerushalmi Haredim such as the Perushim are called kaftans.

Married Chabad hasidim wear a long black kapoteh (frock coat) instead of a bekishe.