Jinger Duggar Reveals Why She Broke Family Rules And Began Wearing Pants

Jinger (Duggar) Vuolo and her husband Jeremy Vuolo recently penned a book together about relationships, family, and faith. “The Hope We Hold: Finding Peace in the Promises of God” features Jinger’s explanation as to why she no longer refrains from wearing pants (via People).

“My mom had always dressed us girls in skirts and dresses, a standard that was taken from Deuteronomy 22:5, which says, ‘A woman shall not wear a man’s garment,’ (ESV) and I never really questioned it,” she wrote, per People. “Modesty was a huge topic in our house, and we believed that wearing skirts instead of pants was a central part of being modest. But I wanted to discover for myself what the Bible had to say.”

Jinger did some studying of the Bible herself and found that nowhere did it speak against women wearing pants specifically. “Since Jeremy and I had begun studying Scripture together, I had become more aware of the different beliefs and doctrines Christians held,” Jinger wrote. “I realized that not everyone interpreted different passages of Scripture the way I always had, and I wanted to find out why.”