Many Orthodox people periodically question: is it possible for a woman to wear a trouser in a church? The answer is sought in various quotes from the Bible. At the same time, some see in them an unambiguous prohibition to walk to a woman in a church in trousers, while others treat them somewhat differently.
Is it forbidden to wear trousers in the church?
If you analyze the statements that are contained in the Old Testament, then they talk about the prohibition to wear clothes of the opposite sex. It says that a woman should not wear menswear, but on males - feminine.
However, before you draw any conclusions, you should analyze how clothes looked like in those days? The most amazing thing is that at that time, and even much later, in the Middle Ages, the trousers did not exist either as a female or as a male element of the wardrobe. Their appearance occurred only in the 19th century.
If you delve into the Orthodox Scripture, you can find such a decipherment, what exactly is available under the clothes peculiar to the opposite sex: "... neither are the faces of the comic ...". Thus, we mean not ordinary clothes, but intended for the so-called mummers. Thus, an analogy was made with pagan practices that penetrate the Christian milieu.
Also in the Christian canons, it is said that a woman will put on clothes for men for the sake of imaginary asceticism. Here we mean the deviation of women from the essence, according to which God created it.
Thus, the Biblical citations are more likely to contain a sense of the spiritual qualities of a woman, and not about why one should not go to church in trousers.
It should be said that the pants appeared as an element of the women's wardrobe, only in the 20th century. Finally, they secured the status of clothing for women in the 60's thanks to Yves Saint Laurent .
Proceeding from the above, it can be concluded that the Bible does not prohibit women from going to church in trousers. Recently, it is common practice to wear a large kerchief over trousers.
According to common traditions, a trip to the temple assumes the obligatory presence of a headdress for the fair sex and excludes the length of the mini for the skirt, it is necessary that it covers the knees.