Here I am again

[tamarillow]

So in the 3 months-ish since my last post  hazel ,  nishatalitha.livejournal.com and I have been given notice at our flat because the owners decided to move back, hazel  and I subsequently brought a house, (nishatalitha.livejournal.com  is planning on going overseas), hosted a Christmas do, went on a truncated road trip, discovered that our property manager gave us the wrong date we needed to be out of the flat by (I am still stunned by this), moved up settlement, moved, and started dealing with tradespeople.

Rather than talking about all of that drama I have decided to post about pockets. My major gripe about women's clothing is the lack of pockets in almost all of it that isn't jeans. WHY ASSUME THAT WE WANT TO CARRY A PURSE WITH US EVERYWHERE WE GO, WORLD? When wandering around our workplaces, will we not want to carry a tissue with us? Will we not want to be able to have an access card without a lanyard? Can we not carry our cellphones if we are expecting a call and still use both hands? While bra's can sometimes function as pockets (and I occasionally use them for this) it is not socially acceptable to be groping your cleavage in most circumstances! And apparently other women have felt this way since 1915 at least:

From Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller at Project Gutenberg:

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.

2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.

3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burden of pockets.

5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.

6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.

7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.

8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.

Comments

[callie]

<3 :D

And I'm so stealing that rhyme for a blog post.

[hazel]

the ENTIRE BOOK is well-worth reading. :D :D :D

[stringherder]

I often bemoan the lack of pockets in clothing. And then I make clothes and forget to put pockets in.

(Or I put pockets in, and forget they're there..)

[tamarillow]

Memory is tricky...