# how often do you wear a kippah? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710 "2009-11-23T23:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/21 "2009-11-25T16:18:23Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Your experience may vary, especially if you live in Tel Aviv. Ah, Tel-Aviv in the summer – when the semi-official uniform for most women (and many men, but I’m not interested in them ;)) at leisure is tank-top/sleeveless + shorts + sandals! Or IOW – what \*\*Alessan \*\*said! 🙂 And with this, we have probably completed a 180° departure from the OP… ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/22 "2009-11-25T16:24:44Z")
How do you keep the kippah on your head? Looks like it could fall off at any moment. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/23 "2009-11-25T16:27:15Z")
A hair clip, also known as a “[Bobby Pin](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3baidsblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bobby_pin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://3baidsblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/word-of-the-day-5/&usg=__lRbeug9T-DxNrvCx_W5CTODdTYk=&h=259&w=800&sz=35&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=4DgDp931_o7B9M:&tbnh=46&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbobby%2Bpin%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1)” (which really should be “[Bubbe](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bubbe)” (grandmother) Pin) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/24 "2009-11-25T16:47:59Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > How do you keep the kippah on your head? Looks like it could fall off at any moment. I use this [velcro-like](http://www.milechai.com/kippot/kippot/kippot-clips.html) tape. I stick it inside the keppah and the hooks stick to my goyisch hair. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/25 "2009-11-25T17:24:25Z")
:smack: Kinda obvious when you think about it. That’s all well and good for people with hair, but what about bald ones? Glue? Chinstrap? I’m guessing a kippah just sits better on a bald head. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/26 "2009-11-25T17:28:46Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > How do you keep the kippah on your head? Looks like it could fall off at any moment. Gravity! Kippa: ^ Head: O I’m not going to diagram the vectors in ascii art, but you see what I mean. I pretty much always wear it. I’ve recently made an exception for the gross anatomy lab, because I don’t want to unconsciously adjust it and get formaldehyde/cadaver fluids in my hair. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/27 "2009-11-25T22:23:56Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Do you keep it on at all times or just at some point during the day? If I’m wearing clothes, I’m wearing a kippah. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/28 "2009-11-25T23:29:57Z")
I don’t use clips or pins, but mine just stays on. I have short, fuzzy buzzed hair which seems to create more friction and help it stay on better. As long as I don’t move my head too vigorously it usually stays on. As I said in the OP, I usually keep mine on at home most of the time but I take it off when I smoke. I don’t think it officially counts as a chillul hashem, but for some reason I just feel bad wearing my kippah while I smoke. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/29 "2009-11-25T23:53:28Z")
For years, I wore one every day. Like **DocCathode** , if I was clothed, I also wore a kippah. This was partly an exercise in examining issues of belief versus practice, and partly a response to my frustration with the way many people around me seemed to assume that Christianity is simply the default state of being.\* I kept up this practice when I was working in semi-rural Wisconsin, where I seemed to be the only non-Christian for miles and miles. After I returned to a more culturally diverse region, I stopped wearing one. Here, people assume that kippah = Orthodox, which I definitely am not.\*\* - This is not to be construed as a criticism of Christians or Christianity. \*\* Heck, I might as well just accept that I’m an atheist. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/30 "2009-11-26T00:03:52Z")
Today, a man saw my yarmulke and assumed I was Orthodox. “What’s an Orthodox Jew doing in a Chinese buffet?” I told him “If it has soy sauce on it, it doesn’t count”. Yes, I really got to deliver the classic line in real life. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful meal. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/31 "2009-11-26T00:18:45Z")
I didn’t think there was a misconception that Chinese food was not kosher. Heck, where’s the stereotype of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day come from anyway? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/32 "2009-11-26T01:33:33Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I told him “If it has soy sauce on it, it doesn’t count”. Almost as cool as when the guy at Complete Computing asked me what was wrong with the printer, and I said, “Smoke comes out the back.” Maybe better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/33 "2009-11-27T13:51:00Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Heck, where’s the stereotype of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day come from anyway? Probably because those are more likely to be open on Christmas Day than other types of restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/34 "2009-11-27T16:22:56Z")
Also, it’s almost ridiculously easy to adhere to “Kashrut-Lite[sup]TM[/sup]”\* with Chinese food – they don’t use **any** dairy in Chinese cuisine, so just lay off the Pork and Shrimp dishes, and you’re OK… - Obviously this isn’t good enough for most Orthodox and some other Jews; but I think most American Jews fall under this level of keeping kosher, or less (or not at all) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710/35 "2009-11-27T16:47:19Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Also, it’s almost ridiculously easy to adhere to “Kashrut-Lite[sup]TM[/sup]”\* with Chinese food – they don’t use **any** dairy in Chinese cuisine, so just lay off the Pork and Shrimp dishes, and you’re OK… And stay away from the crab Ragoon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wear-a-kippah/518710.md?page=1)