Somewhere in my head I thought I posted this yesterday. The lack of pockets in womens clothing is a bit of her pet peeve I believe and can’t say I blame her. I have oftentimes gotten one piece of clothing over another due to pockets.
Somewhere in my head I thought I posted this yesterday. The lack of pockets in womens clothing is a bit of her pet peeve I believe and can’t say I blame her. I have oftentimes gotten one piece of clothing over another due to pockets.
It comes from exploiting patriarchal beauty standards. Clothes for women were pushed to be designed with the mindset of fashion first, functionality second to “accentuate the female form” and it was argued that pockets detract from this so it was “necessary” to omit them from women’s clothing.
Men’s clothing is designed to be functional first, fashionable second so that angle of exploiting gender norms wasn’t available for men.