redress code Patriarchaat

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Synod for Church and Society Affairs, proposed the idea of a Russian “dress code”. In January the prelate had won praise from the press by saying that Russian women dressed like striptease dancers, and wore makeup like clowns. «There is a problem....with people who confuse the street with striptease» wrote Vsevolod Chaplin in an open letter published by the Interfax Agency.

«A woman who is skimpily dressed or painted like a clown....will certainly not find a man to share her life, a man who has a modicum of intelligence and self-respect».

He proposed creating an all-Russian dress code, following the example already set in some schools and offices.



This is not the first time that Chaplin has spoken out about the way Russian women dress.

In December,he declared that women wearing miniskirts and who were drunk have only themselves to blame if they are raped.
He called for women to dress more modestly and decently. Chaplin believes that there is an interrelationship between a person’s appearance and their inner being, and so they should take care of their heart and their appearance, and try to make sure they are a positive match.