Proper Biblical Hermeneutics and Interpretation: Head Coverings
1. Historic Interpretative Community
The purpose of this video is to show how we should approach an interpretation that is supposedly Biblical. The first step is to see if it is an interpretation that Christians have ever held.
Ed: This article was made when I was a Protestant and upon greater learning and reflection my thoughts may have evolved.
Orthodox Christian Theology 
That Calvin quote sounds like the slippery slope argument, if women don’t wear head coverings, then they’ll show their ankles next. Or their knees! Oh the horror of seeing a woman’s shoulders! In one of the Narnia books, one of the women considered seeing a woman’s bare arms the mark of her being a trollup. For the first time in centuries, we’re a generally hatless nation: http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i
In past centuries, going hatless was so unthinkable that there really weren’t any question of why people are still wearing hats, they were practical. And since it was their habit to wear hats everywhere, they were worn to church just like they would were they shopping at the markets. Even John Calvin is portrayed wearing his hat because it was his custom to wear it. Now we’re a hatless society, it’s not our custom to wear hats when we go shopping or out to eat and it’s also not our custom to wear hats to church.
One of the weaknesses to seeing what ancient church people thought about teachings is that every now and then a passage like 1 Cor. 11 gets a bit weird with Tertullian’s teaching that virgins ought to wear veils and wives ought to not forsake wearing veils, too. Now how does one apply that? How are not-virgins not-wives to be treated? will they be told to wear them anyway? Or will they be like Hester Pyrnne and ‘marked’ as the sinning sinners they are? Dio Crysostom once noticed that in Tarsus the women are thoroughly veiled except for one eye so that they may see where they’re going. St. John Chrysostom said that women should always be covered at all times. St. Ambrose of Milan’s sentiments mirror those of John Calvin – the slippery slope. St. Augustine said that a woman’s veil must conceal all of her hair or else she is being too immodest. He believed that all women, married or not must wear their head covering at all times. Then again, there’s the possibility that he could be wrong; it’s in the human capacity to be wrong about things. And after two thousand years of people talking about, dissecting, translating, and interpreting these verses – we’ve seen a lot of variation quite a lot of them will be ‘wrong’ in one way or another, and ‘right’ in one way or another.