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I'm pretty sure if everyone stopped buying purses, women would finally get pockets in their clothes.
Hi mate, thanks for stopping by! This is a woman's only community so please don't post again 😊
Hey appreciate the commentary but you aren't a woman and this is a women's space.
I boycott clothes without pockets. It's improved my life 1000%
well at least they get fake pockets
It's the dream!
The story behind pockets and women's clothing is actually kind of funny. (Not "pockets" in the old sense either, of a belted pouch.)
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, only the noble women could have dresses. Now at that time, nobility weren't the spoiled pampered things we have as a picture of them nowadays. Most had only very recently become nobles, and usually by force and violence. They were barely this side of pirates and brigands really. And they were super-practical.
So even the gowns and dresses of what amounts to medieval new landers had pockets. They were just concealed for the looks, so a casual observer didn't see them.
As the merchant class rose and started wanting to be treated like nobles, they started to "ape their betters" in dress and language and such. But, here's the thing, the clothing? That was copied from observation. And the noblewomens gowns didn't have visible pockets so the new mercantile class assumed they didn't have pockets at all and started making all women's clothing without pockets.
And thus we have today's ludicrous world: a bunch of nouveau riche aping the look of the class they so wanted to become part of have given us a world where women don't have pockets.