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Her filthiness is in her skirts — Her personal defilement is no longer concealed beneath the garments (Jeremiah 13:22).…

Her filthiness. —The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.
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He continues here, I believe, with the same subject; he had said at the end of the last verse that turpitude or baseness had been seen at Jerusalem…

Her filthiness [is] in her skirts
Her sin is manifest to all, being to be seen in her punishment. The allusion is to…

The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person. At other times, Jerusalem, personified as a distressed woman, or some of the Jews are the speakers.…

Here the author describes the progre ion of sin.
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes