When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without laying there their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people."The priestly clothes were holy, like everything else in the inner areas of the Temple. I don't know whether the clothes were specifically made holy, or consecrated, but if not they were effectively made holy by their presence in those places. Taking them into the common areas would have been risking them becoming tainted, and then desecrating the sacrifices they were to officiate over.
However, this worked both ways. The people never got the chance to be around the holy in their daily lives. Unlike today, the special things of God had to be separated from normal life, creating an artificial duality. Thanks to Christ, we no longer have that concern, but we still sometimes separate those two worlds from each other artificially, and therefore invite sin into the everyday.
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