Yesterday I was chatting to my friend Nell, author of the excellent Musings of a Clergy Child, and writer at LICC – an organisation I love for really getting me involved in ‘life and faith’ as things that work together – as an option for research… anyway, we were chatting about pockets,

I love that Twitter highlighted this for me @alianoree … and that you all took a POCKETS photo! Why don’t more places make with pockets – I largely refuse to buy without now!! https://t.co/zE2KMKl6pf

— Dr Bex Lewis (@drbexl) January 24, 2019

which as you may know, still finds itself on my Twitter bio:

Life Explorer, author, speaker, SL #digitalmarketing MMU, Christian, digital culture, @digitalfprint, #keepcalm #busylivingwithmets #wiasn #pockets #cheese

I was saying, I keep meaning to blog, pulling together some of the findings over years – and then today, the story made it onto the BBC, and tomorrow the bride will be on BBC Breakfast:

It escalated again. Look out for @evelyn_frances on BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning!

— Nell Goddard (@alianoree) January 25, 2019

So, let me see what I can find (I suspect I’ll be back adding bits as I re-find old finds) – I’ve shared generally, and also in WIASN, it’s quite a frequent topic of conversation! I’m not a specialist in this area, but I pretty-much refuse to buy clothes without pockets (all tips where to find good clothes from appreciated…)

• Podcast: Pockets (23 minutes)
• The Politics of Pockets (2018)
• The Gender Politics of Pockets (2014)
• Victoria and Albert Museum: History of Pockets (undated)
• Pockets of History (2008?)
• The Weird, Complicated, Sexist History of Pockets (2016)
• Women’s Pockets Have a Surprisingly Political History (2018)
• Exhibition Review: How Liberty looked to the past to imagine the future of fashion (2018: not specific re: pockets)
• Science Proves That Women’s Jean Pockets Are A Lie (2018)
• The hunt for women’s clothes with pockets (2016)
• The Bewildering and Sexist History of Women’s Pockets (2018)
• When it comes to women’s pockets, size really does matter (2018)
• Why women’s pockets suck (2018)
• Pocket history: Why dresses hardly ever have pockets (2017)
• Pockets are a feminist issue (2018)
• Why Have Women’s Pockets Been So Small Throughout History? (2017)
• Hands Deep in History: Pockets in Men and Women’s Dress in Western Europe, c. 1480–1630, Costume, Volume 51 Issue 2, Page 148-170, ISSN 0590-8876 Available Online Sep 2017
• Trying to find Jerome K Jerome short story on women’s pockets…
• eShakti – dresses with pockets

A little poem:

DANGEROUS COATS
Someone clever once said
Women were not allowed pockets
In case they carried leaflets
To spread sedition
Which means unrest
To you & me
A grandiose word
For commonsense
Fairness
Kindness
Equality
So ladies start sewing
Dangerous Coats
Made of pockets & sedition

— Sharon Owens (@SOwensAuthor) November 15, 2018

A response to the poem above.

A few pictures (origins unknown for most, but linked if known):

Here’s a comic about everything I’ve learnt about women’s fashion. pic.twitter.com/6FtFed6DcE

— Joe Decie (@joedecie) February 16, 2018

• ‘Girlpants‘
• Pocket Comedy
• Instagram hashtag #pocketsforwomen

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Women in fantasy worlds be like… . #fantasy #warrior #warriors #armor #armour #dresswithpockets #dresseswithpockets #fantasyart #traditionalart #sketch #sketches #sketchbook

A post shared by L. Benjamin Steamroller (@bensteamroller) on Jan 16, 2019 at 12:44am PST

Not so sure about the punch at the end but…

Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash