Are you required to wear a four conered article of clothing in order to satisfy the mitzvah of Tzitzis?
Answer
The strict mitzva of Tzitzis is "put fringes on your four-cornered garment." Biblically, it was the norm that people's clothes were four-cornered.
Today, modern fashion has generally done away with four-cornered garments, and thus the technical requirement; nonetheless, we try not to get out of mitzva obligations, so standard practice has become to wear a four-cornered garment with Tzitzis on it.
Between the easy availability of the mitzva; the fact that it has become normative; and various statements in classical sources about the positive effects of wearing tzitzis (and negative effects of avoiding them), it is appropriate ("very strongly should do") to wear a four-cornered garment.
I'm not sure how people interpret the word "required", so I'll leave it at that.
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