Haredim are poor, but they have money for bus ads like this?

It's ungrammatical - it should say לבוש קצר - קיצור חיים

diz, Both are correct. Perhaps you mean that they are not parallel in structure.

Anyway, if they're paying for it, then why.

And, besides it's true. Yeah, I know many women and/or their black-hat wearing husbands think that the miniskirts, stocking and hooker boots (and tight and/or clingy clothes) are OK, but they're not.

:-/

Hooker post,...I mean tzni'us post forthcoming.

Esser - most religious people will say straight out that short skirts are not tzanua, etc. That does not necessarily mean they shorten people's lives. Generally we do not know the affect our actions, good or bad have, in the otherly realms, and suggesting that we do seems presumptuous to me

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was referring to ones spiritual life, not physical life. ;-)

True, I could be wrong, but regarding ones spiritual life, I'm willing to go out on such a limb. ;-P

Perhaps it's obvious, but just to be clear, I am not talking about women (or their husbands, who are sometimes the culprits) who are gradually taking on misswoth, including tzni'uth.

They're referring to men's jackets, of course, not skirts - the short jacket is a Western invention, they want all men to wear the frock/bekesha.

(The above is a joke, in case it wasn't clear. But it is true that in Eastern Europe in the late 1800-early 1900's they looked at someone with a short jacket as a more "modern" Jew)

DR, LOL! Cute. :-)

Actually, so do I. Personally, I think that all black garb is too "modern" for me.

The past week has seen pretty much the entire civilized world supporting the rights of a French magazine to print all sorts of offensive stuff. The fact that people are even discussing whether or not this ad should be allowed (not if the message is correct, but if we should tolerate expression of fringe views in public) is telling.