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Peace be upon you and the mercy and blessings of Allah. I read in your handwriting an answer to a question, and the answer says:
She may uncover in front of her mahrams her face, head, neck, hands, forearms, feet, and legs, and must cover everything else.
Is this statement absolute, especially since your position on short clothing for children and women in general is that it is not allowed?
When we say it is allowed to uncover such and such, it does not mean that clothing should be limited to that extent.
But suppose a woman is wearing a garment that reaches the ankle.
Yes, then her leg becomes exposed.
Whether for work or not, she is not sinful for this if only her mahrams are present.
Or if only women are present, but as for wearing short clothes, we forbid it.
And we warn against it, because we did not.
Even though it may be permissible.
It will lead to something worse than that.
Yes, as is usually the case in other matters, people start out doing something in a permissible way.
Then the situation deteriorates until they take you further.
In fact, they even descend with it into something clearly haram.
Just as the saying of the Messenger, peace be upon him: A woman should not look at the awrah of another woman.
It does not mean that a woman is allowed to wear only what covers between her navel and her knee.
And no one says this, but the meaning is that if something of the woman is uncovered,
like the chest or the leg.
Even if the garment is fully covering, fully covering.
Then it is not forbidden for a woman to look at another woman in this case.
And looking at the example of a woman breastfeeding her child.
Her breast is uncovered for the purpose of breastfeeding the child. We do not say to the other woman that looking at this breast is haram.
Because this is not customary.
But if a woman comes and says: I only wear trousers that cover from the navel to the knee, no one says this is allowed, and it is not permissible.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, mentioned that the clothing of the women of the sahaba covered from the hand to the ankle.
This is when we are in our homes, but if we go out to the market, it is well known from the hadith of Salama that the woman lets down
her garment. The Prophet ﷺ allowed her to lower it to a forearm's length so that her feet would not be exposed when she walked.