Wolfe wears shear stockings and stiletto heels when she performs, and
the duo met with opposition after a suggestive photo of the women posing
in front of the Lubavitch World Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern
Parkway in Brooklyn was posted to a blog.
Bulletproof Stockings: Perl Wolfe (left) and Dalia Shusterman (right)
The New York Post has piece today on the Crown Heights Chabad pop duo Dalia Shusterman and Perl Wolfe. The two are better known as Bulletproof Stockings, named after the hosiery choice common among many hasidic women (and perhaps one of the best band names ever).
Wolfe is 26 and divorced. Schusterman, who is widowed and mother of four children, doesn’t give her age.
Bulletproof Stockings only plays shows for female-only audiences.
“Women will party and rock out in a completely different way when there’s nobody there but women. We don’t perform for men because there is a mitzvah that they’re not supposed to listen to women sing. So we’re trying to be respectful,” Wolfe told the Post.
“We have standards that we believe in, and they’re very clear to us,” Shusterman to the Post. “We want to be role models, but we can’t make everybody happy.”
But the Post reports that Wolfe wears shear stockings and stiletto heels when she performs, and the duo met with opposition after a suggestive photo of the women posing in front of the Lubavitch World Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn was posted to a blog.
And even though the duo only perform for women, men also buy their music.
“But our target audience is women,” Wolfe told the Post.
You can hear four good Bulletproof Stockings songs on their MySpace page.
The Times of Israel has a much longer, much better written and reported profile of Bulletproof Stockings published earlier this month.
[Hat Tip: Ruthie.]