Kolpik

It is seen as an intermediate level garment between Shabbat and weekday dress.

The days that some rebbes don a kolpik include:

• Rosh Chodesh Meal
• Hanukah
• Tu BiShvat Meal
• Isru Chag Meal
• Meal served to the poor a few days before a child's wedding
• Yartzeit Meal

It is often thought, that Jews adopted wearing fur hats from the Eastern Europeans, possibly from the nobility. Joseph Margoshes (1866–1955) in his memoir A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia writes regarding Rabbi Shimon Sofer's election to the Imperial Council of Austria:

The election of the Krakow Rabbi to the Austrian Reichstag made a tremendous impression on the entire Jewish world, ... It gave them enormous pleasure to see even a single Rabbi achieve the major honour of sitting among so many great personages, clad in a fine calpac amid such esteemed gentlemen. The poor things did not know that the calpac was part of historic Polish dress, and that many Poles, especially extreme nationalists, would wear these same calpacs at their meetings.