Women Going Out?
Here is the reference of the verse you quoted above: Qur’an 33:33 This directive is given to the noble wives because of the status and responsibilities they had: they were not to go out of their houses heavily dressed up the way wives of rich people of the age of jāhiliyyah did. In fact, they were to try not even to go out of their homes because of the circumstances they were encountering. This was because the hypocrites were trying day and night to scandalize their lives. This directive did not relate to common Muslim women. They could go out of their houses at that time whenever they wanted keeping in view their needs and circumstances and even today too. Adorning themselves before strangers is however prohibited for them because in Sūrah al-Nūr the Almighty had bade them thus. Here, this much has become further evident that embellishing themselves before unknown men is the custom of the jāhiliyyah period and does not relate to a society envisaged by Islam.