page_title: Hygiene in Christianity
section_title: External apparel
hierarchical_section_title: Hygiene in Christianity / External apparel
caption_attribution_description: Young Woman at Hazratbal Shrine - Srinagar - Jammu &amp; Kashmir - India - 02
context_page_description: In certain denominations of Christianity, hygiene in Christianity includes a number of regulations involving cleanliness before prayer, as well as those concerning diet and apparel.
context_section_description: In Christianity, communicants of the Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches are expected to wear a cross necklace at all times; these are ordinarily given to believers at their baptism. 
  In many Christian denominations, such as the Oriental Orthodox Churches and Old Ritualists of the Russian Christian tradition, women wear headcoverings when praying and worshipping.
  In denominations of the conservative holiness movement such as the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection and Evangelical Wesleyan Church, when in public, women are enjoined to wear clothing with sleeves extended past the elbows and "Women's hemlines are to be modestly below the knees" (cf. outward holiness).
caption: In many Christian denominations, women wear headcoverings when praying and worshipping.[54]
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