I have noticed that practically all the women at SSPX chapels wear skirts but a higher percentage of women at FSSP chapels wear slacks.

 Why this difference?

I have noticed that practically all the women at SSPX chapels wear skirts but a higher percentage of women at FSSP chapels wear slacks.

 Why this difference?

I've noticed this, too, at a couple of Indult/Motu Proprio Masses that I went to out of curiosity.

I think it's because at SSPX and other "independent" traditional chapels the people have been educated to be more aware of cultural problems in modern society. I think diocesan or FSSP clergy have to tiptoe around cultural problems for fear of giving offense to the regular NO types, who think that slacks and almost anything else in modern culture are just fine.

I have noticed that practically all the women at SSPX chapels wear skirts but a higher percentage of women at FSSP chapels wear slacks.

 Why this difference?

I have never seen a single regular parishioners at my FSSP parish wear anything but a skirt or dress.

There are probably well over 500 parishioners.

I have definately never seen "tight blue jeans" or "short shorts" on anyone there.

Occasionally, a denizen of the surrounding ghetto wanders in dressed immodestly, and definately on large Holy Days there are a lot of newcomers that are dressed immodestly.

I've never seen evidence of any of the priests "tip-toeing" around modesty either. Quite the contrary actually. They don't have a dress code announced on their voicemail (which is just tasteless really), but they do put out an announcement in the bulletin during the summer, etc.  

I generally attend an FSSP parish.  There are women in slacks, but they are modest enough.  Unless you think slacks are by definition immodest.  

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I've never seen evidence of any of the priests "tip-toeing" around modesty either. Quite the contrary actually. They don't have a dress code announced on their voicemail (which is just tasteless really), but they do put out an announcement in the bulletin during the summer, etc.  

Do the FSSP priests at your church ever go discuss these issues (modesty questions and modern women's fashions) in sermons or in their bulletin?

I've can't recall hearing a sermon specifically targeted at modern fashion, but in the summer there are bulletins regarding modest dress, and the priests also emphasis this briefly in their announcments before they begin their sermons.

I also don't attend that often, so I may have missed it. I have attended long enough and often enough to know that slacks are practically never worn though.

They are very strict on modesty for males though, especially the altar servers, so I don't see why they would relax on the girls.