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 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
Not so sure about the punch at the end but…
Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash
Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.
See: https://www.facebook.com/bigassladyballs/photos/a.433031607223106/499695213890078/?type=3&theater
Olivia Colman Oscar dress – pockets – https://mashable.com/article/olivia-colman-oscars-pocket-dress/?europe=true#.FJnRMFYUsq0; https://www.bustle.com/p/olivia-colmans-oscars-2019-dress-had-pockets-this-may-be-the-reason-why-16051724
#GE2019 – https://www.indy100.com/article/labour-manifesto-general-election-jonathan-reynolds-daughter-pockets-9198626?
Article on the details of pocket sizes – https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/?