On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:52:39PM +1100 or thereabouts, Jenn V. wrote:
> Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
> >
> > I'm with you on that one. It's not just dresses either... womens
> > jackets and trousers often don't have pockets in them at all, let alone
> > numerous or capacious ones.
>
> WHY are there no pockets in women's clothes? Are we assumed to not want to
> carry things?
I wish I knew. I end up carting a bag (not a handbag, a useful bag)
around with me. Some people think it's silly, but what usually
happens is that I end up with people saying, "Can you put this
in there for me, too?".
In the reenactment society I used to belong to, one of the articles
everyone had was a smallish pouch on a belt. It was damn handy,
and I still use mine routinely. Then again, I still wear the mantle
(like a poncho), too :)
The trouble is, I'm quite small. Things that my much taller
partner can put in his pockets comfortably dig into me if I
use my pockets, even I have those army-style trousers or shirts
with about fifteen pockets in them. A bag is generally more
useful: I can fit the important things in (purse -- money container
rather than handbag --, tissues, hairbrush, my nice woolly
hat, paper, book(s), torch and a swiss army knife in case I
meet a horse with something in its hoof and finally get a chance
to use the bit on it that has no apparent function, second book
in case I finish the first at the bus stop...) Because I
can never dig through this lot to find my keys, of course,
I have them on a shoelace round my neck, which I've done for
years.
The two articles of clothing I had with useful sized pockets
(leather jacket and a big hippie coat) now simply have pockets
which are portals into the nether void of the lining of those
coats, due to my sticking too much into them. I one had to
empty my coat lining after the security thing bleeped at the
airport, and it took ten minutes, and I amassed such a huge
pile of general crud that everyone just stared. Then there
was the time I "smuggled a bomb onto a space station" (a
slightly odd party: everyone in costume and searches for
weapons - water pistols etc - at the door). I had this old
shell case that was the size and shape of the cardboard containers
that whisky bottles arrive in. As I said, I'm small. I stuffed
it into the gaping hole that once was a pocket of the leather
jacket and now just a rip in the lining, and walked in, despite
a search.
I got laser-beamed whilst attempting to blow up the space
station, though! I was one of the good guys, too :) The next
party, I took an alien egg, but that didn't fit into my pockets,
and besides, it was slimy.
The point of all this is that pockets are very useful. Yes.
Telsa
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