Women's Pockets Weren't Always a Complete Disgrace | A Brief History: England, 15th c - 21st c
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SOURCES:
--Braun, Melanie; Costigliolo, Luca; North, Susan; Thornton, Claire; Tiramani, Jenny. '17th Century Men's Dress Patterns: 1600-1630'. 2016. Thames & Hudson, London. Print.
--Burman, Barbara and Fennetaux, Ariane. "The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives." 2019, Yale University Press. Print.
--Maître du cardinal de Bourbon. "Vie et miracles de monseigneur saint Louis ou Livre des faits de monseigneur saint Louis". 1480 - 1488. BnF Gallica, gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv... Le Livre.shift
--Tiramani, Jenny; Costigliolo, Luca; Passot, Sébastien; Lucas, Armelle; Pietsch, Johannes. "Patterns of Fashion 5: The content, cut, construction and context of bodies, stays, hoops and rumps c. 1595 - 1795". London, 2018. Print.
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Special thanks to Melissa P for sharing her extant pocket database with me; to @AbbyCox for peer review and supplemental extant pocket footage; to @pinsenttailoring for supplemental waistcoat pocket footage.
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0:00 Introduction
1:10 The (very very slow) Development of Pockets
3:16 The Infinite Styles and Shapes of the Tie-On Pocket
4:49 A Deduction Exercise: How Pockets Reveal People
6:44 The Golden Age of Pocketry: 18th Century Pocket Hoops
8:43 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (Regency Edition)
10:17 Sewn-in Pockets and the Rise of Pocket Inequality
13:47 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (21st Century Edition).
16:17 A Very Special Giveaway From Yale University Press :)
If I can't fit a pair of sewing shears, a book, a water bottle, a journal, a bag of Doritos, and a live chicken in my pockets then WHAT is the POINT
Essentials 😎
@@bernadettebanner exactly
You'll get yourself arrested, loading up like that.
Dead chickens do not belong in pockets, it’s messy, leaves an odor and generally causes staining... I’ve heard.
@@codename495 That is why you put them alive.
My daughter complained her clothes don't have pockets at age four. This was after she put a rock in her ear, because she didn't have any pockets, to save for later. We made sure she had pockets after that. Even in her cosplay.
When one's clothes don't even have pockets large enough to fit a pebble that would fit in a four-year-old's ear, that is indeed a problem.
Oh crap! When I was a kid I put beans up my nose, but I am pretty sure that's just because people told me not to and I was curious. The lack of pockets is a much better reason, I guess!
As a geologist who likes cosplay.... I love your daughter. May she have many pockets for all the rocks she wants!
@@questgivercyradis8462 she was saving it to show me because of my rock collection. I still have it... ssshhh don't tell her.
I have a friend who spends a considerable amount of time in the woods or on a creekbank and she had (eek) a fanny pack to put her precious finds in. I made her an tie on pocket and embroidered a faerie under a mushroom on it. Because? She definitely reminds me of a woods nymph. She uses it which makes me very happy.
Sitting in a wedding ceremony a little over a year ago I will never forget the collective gasp that coursed through the women in the audience when the bride reached in a pocket IN HER WEDDING GOWN to pull out items such as a quill pen and box with the groom's ring. We all wanted a do-over for our own gowns.
im gonna write the idea down cuz pockets in a wedding gown? thats a need.
EPIC
My three year old daughter has become very insistent on pockets these days. She experienced her first fake pocket. The betrayel was palpable.
🤣
Oh my gosh I feel her pain, betrayal is the right word... Maybe this will drive her to sew her own clothes one day 🥰
I can remember my first run-in with a fake pocket. I liked to collect rocks as a child, and upon discovering I had nowhere to keep them, I certainly felt betrayed (among other things).
oh god they're going after the kids clothes now!? What in the absolute fuck!
@@Tailzy26 That was over a decade ago. We must do something to stop this madness.
The fact that that women were so passionate about pockets throughout history brings me immense joy.
a generational rage i'm proud to continue to fight for.
What does the knowledge that the battle was ultimately lost do for you?
@@k_a_y_l_e_e Mom was a seamstress and added pockets to clothes. She taught me when I was about 12. I have 3 nieces and will pass the skill on :)
@@changeshifter4852 i appreciate this energy
Moi aussi! 🙏
To the historical ladies carrying live chickens in their pockets: majestic.True icons.
Feeling cute, might carry sum chicken in my skirt later
One wonders why one had to carry your chicken around.
@@karenrowell2180 If you lived in a congregate setting, your chicken could be stolen and eaten. Of course you kept your friends close and your chickens closer.
@@karenrowell2180 if I wanna carry a chicken in my lower body garments, I'm gonna carry a chicken in my lower body garments. The fact that I actually own several chickens should concern my surroundings
@@ms_it_is Yaas, carry sum chicken for the rest of us! :D
I saw a picture today of a female celebrity holding a phone, keys, coffee, wallet and probably something else in her hand which was bent to accommodate this amount of stuff with the caption “this is what decades of pocket abuse has done to women, we’ve evolved this level of dexterity”
I'm simultaneously 😂ing and 😭ing at this imagery
Oh how we've evolved as a species
nah this is what Starbucks does to you
@@ussinussinongawd516 Starbucks singlehandedly sews women's pockets shut?
Dakota Johnson, yeah.
Yes! Every morning I walk to my car with :
My lunch bag looped around my arm,
My giant water jug hanging from my hand
My coffee cup in palm
Phone held by one finger against the coffee cup
Keys looped around another finger
And sunglasses held by another finger XD
This morning I even had a bagel balanced on top of the coffee cup 😬
I will NEVER forget Michael Kors telling a Project Runway contestant off for daring to have pockets in the pants they made and then adding "All the women I know cut off the pockets"
It never fails to make me seethe with rage
Who are these strange women he claims to know? I can't imagine anyone actively depriving themselves of pockets...
@@NoraDiniro1of7 I met exactly one, once before. She was naturally very petite and liked tight fitting clothing. But that's it. Exactly one, ever, in my entire many decades here on this Earth.
@@NoraDiniro1of7 models probably ?
And this is the same man who criticized a female designer for not putting pockets in men's clothing.
I want to buy women's clothes designed by women and not by men who design clothes for models that look like teenage boys 😂
the fact that i can fit my phone, keys, charger, switch, headphones, weapons, cat, and the state of nebraska in the pockets of my 'men's' jeans but i can barely fit a pack of gum in the pockets of my 'women's' jeans is quite honestly a hate crime
Now I know where my cat got lost to. Give him back!
My husband likes to store 2l bottles of pop in each of his pockets as well as keys, phone, wallet, dog lead, snacks, pebbles the toddler collects and christ knows what else I pull out of them when I'm doing laundry
My mum: do you wanna get an extra bag for the leftovers
Me with two sandwiches in my pocket
@@Tiger89Lilly I initially parsed "pebbles the toddler collects" as "Pebbles the Toddler", like the child from the Flintstones, and pictured pulling an entire toddler from the pocket.
@@BeastGuardian now that would be useful when she's throwing a tantrum. Also pebbles is a great name for her. I'll get it changed by deed poll 😂
You know what really gets me, is not just the horrible state of women's pockets in clothing, but when I see that there are COATS and JACKETS for women without pockets. It's infuriating!
This offends me too. Coats and jackets at the very least should be the reasonable counter. There's also long sweaters with sewn in pockets that are a great counter. But *apparently* those can't be the fashion...
@@athannyx6815
Sweaters aren't ideal for pockets since they're knit rather than woven, but jackets don't typically have that problem.
@@ragnkja I know they aren't ideal but it's possible. Also be aware I'm kind of doing general layered garments meant to warm indoors as kind of sweaters. Not just the very poofy knit sweaters that aren't practical.
I know there's a few sweater design types that can accommodate pockets. There's also the loose hanging sweaters my mom bought, long sleeved and knitted with an opening in the front, which are designed with pockets and could beautifully be used as a layered way to include pockets. Particular, if they *insist* on the thinner clothes pattern so you have to buy more clothes, it's meant to be between a coat and a lighter shirt. Or overtop a dress or a small shirt/skirt combo.
Theres a reason pockets are the no.1 thing i look for in a coat. Any less then 4 I'm just not buying. And woe and behold if they have fake pockets. My current coat only got away with 2 fake pockets bc it already had 5 functional pockets. Never settle for less
@@lv2draw1 My current coat has two deep pockets because my Mom is very good at finding coats with good pockets and I don't care if I look like a penguin. But that's a different thing. But I always make sure I have pockets deep enough for a wallet *somewhere* .
I once went with a friend to her wedding dress fitting. I complemented one of the dresses as being very sleek, and the designer pretty much jumped out from behind her skirt and say: "AND IT HAS POCKETS!"
I don't know why a wedding dress need pockets (as I hadn't worn one myself) but I sure love that she added them
presumably the same reason any garment needs pockets. she had a large keyring and a wallet in one, and a cell phone (on silent during the ceremony, of course) in the other.
Somewhere to keep the vows. I was maid of honor at my friend's wedding and I had to hold her personalized wedding vows-except there was no holding on my part, as they were tucked into the bosom of my dress...because I didn't have pockets either 🤦♀️
"It has pockets" is by far my favourite sentence in the English language
This made me think of that one episode of Doctor Who where Donna has to explain to the Doctor that "No, I don't have my mobile phone, I'm in my wedding dress, *there are no pockets.*"
Pockets on (in?) wedding dresses is a popular thing nowadays. I think a lot of people don't know what to do with their hands.
"The pinnacle of insulting blasphemy that is the existence of the fake pocket" is the best sentence I have ever heard 😆🙌🏻
Bernadette: "Do with information what you will"
Me: Grabs pitchfork
I'll get some sewing needle swords to arm our allies with
I need to find some good, sturdy hatpins.
Sew pockets into your pants!
Bernadette: history of pockets while making a plae for pockets reformation.
Me: agreeing with her.
Hahahaha
I'll never forget my friend in a Rococo dress pulling out an entire bottle of wine out of their pocket hoops.
The imagery of this is majestic
@@ruthanneparkes1464 it was at a pirate event and gosh.
Beautiful.
This made me shed a tear. Beautiful.
Once at a renaissance festival, while in line for the privies a woman pulled a box of wine out from under her dress and offered some to my friend.
I'd much rather carry a bottle of wine than a live chicken.
When I showed my friends at school i sew a pocket inside my coat and they went NUTS
Same thing happened when a random lady said her skirt had pockets and she put her arm almost to the elbow inside and people around started screaming in excitement
That's what they took from us: HAPPINESS
Man! The joy I missed out on two years ago. Nice for me now though.
@@CasualGamerGirl77 it's never too late to hop in the pocket train! 🚆
I’m not sure if it’s a western thing, but having lived in Japan for a few years, I noticed that almost all women’s garments have pockets. Big pockets! All my dresses and skirts have pockets. The inside lining of jackets also have big pockets. Big enough to fit an ipad. The clothing is very functional. I do miss finding modern clothing with pockets now that I’m back in North America.
📝 buy... Pants... From Japan. Got it!
@@kyrab7914 I need to note this too
Btw I recently moved to Germany and discovered that a majority of jackets and coats have an inside pocket on the left side (where the lapelles are). It was the first time in my life of 30 years that I have a luxury of hiding my smartphone there. Oh and I'm from Ukraine, we also rarely have pockets😑
@@anastasiiazdorikova it's a pocket conspiracy! Thanks for smuggling the big pocket info out to us
I've thrifted 3 skirts that has tags in Japanese, and ALL of them have pockets. This was why!!!
Meanwhile my daughter’s baby clothes have pockets. They are teeny tiny but they exist more frequently and in better proportion to the size of the garment than many of my clothes.
Has she discovered yet that she can put her hands in them?
My sons had huge pockets in their baby/toddler clothes that quite often got filled with upchuck or rocks
I can only imagine the fun surprises you'll find in her pockets once she starts crawling around!
Exactly! New to this mom thing & the audacity of baby pockets feels as if it is a deliberately sadistic joke!
@@kristintindall7585 I agree
There's a nursery rhymes that begins "Lucy Locket lost her pocket..." and I never used to understand how on earth someone could lose an entire sewn-in pocket, but when you consider the historical context of tie-on pockets, it makes an awful lot more sense...
I know the feeling. A pickpocket is called a "pocket thief" in Danish, which conjures the image of a thief stealing the pocket itself. Now it makes sense!
Exactly, I remember that nursery rhyme and always thought it was ridiculous until I learned in my later adult years that women/girls used to tie their pockets on. It was a regular thing then.
Also, my confusion with "cutpurse" can be explained similarly. this always made no sense to me, why i don't know
WOW I never thought of that. It does make so much more sense now!
Yes, I used to be confused by that so much! Incidentally, there are darker readings of that poem that suggest the ‘pocket’ was referring to a client that Lucy lost, and which Kitty Fisher (a well known 18th C. Courtesan, for which a marvellous restaurant in London is named - and which you should definitely visit, Bernadette!) had taken on...
I still remember reading Harry Potter for the first time and being extremely puzzled as to how he fit his wand in his pocket. I remember looking at my jeans and being like “I don’t think I could fit a *pencil* in these”. Then a friend of mine pulled a replica wand out of his pocket. I was both amazed and infuriated
"Excuse me, are you clucking?"
"Oh, no. That's just the chicken in my pocket"
Is that a chicken in your pocket or are you just happy to see me...
this reminds me of the time someone brought a baby chicken in their backpack into starbucks chirping very loudly and were like “can i get some water for my.. for me”
@@abigailw7146 that's actually incredible
At some point, my life evolved from "I buy fast fashion every week in an attempted to blend in the society" to "I enjoy a video essay about historical pockets while waiting for a made-to-order edwardian linen skirt to arrive". I will never complain about this. Thank you Bernadette for making me dive even deeper into historical fashion !
where are you getting the skirt? I'm real curious for myself
Yes! Welcome to the "we're sick of fast fashion" club!
"Made to order "* not "mode to order " not complaining, just thought I'd help you out 😁
@@fireline4765 Haha thanks ! It seems like my french keyboard did its thing again... 😂
@@samantha.redacted The skirt is from a shop on Etsy called BlueLadyCouture ! ☺️
As someone who doesn’t wear jeans, can we just mention that the few linen pants that actually do have enough space to pocket a phone tend to be so loose that you constantly have to fight the weight of your phone trying to pull your pants down?
For real. I have a pair of linen shorts that actually have huge, men's sized pockets (I have to bend down slightly to reach the bottom with my short fingers), but they tend to stretch out a lot, and so weight of my phone tries to pull them down my hips. And I have wide hips!
And not just linen. Also, those that are structured enough to support the weight of something being carried in a pocket seem to be designed to have things of any size fall out with any activity (even/especially simply sitting and standing) even though those objects technically fit.
To improve pocket weight, try sewing a little cotton tape from the top of the pocket to your waistband. Puts the weight on the band instead of the side seams.
I have a pair of linen shorts with belt loops. Also has cargo style pockets!
@@skyrcro8E38 I am jealous
Bernadette having passive-aggressive rants about historically accurate wardrobes and garments gives me life.
You know you have gotten deep in a youtube hole when you hear the words "pocket scholars" and you don't even study fashion.
Love it.
The book is fantastic, I highly recommend it
well, we all wear clothes. so it is in our area of interest
Living on a ranch, a live chicken is now the only unit of pocket measurement I'll accept 🤣
Are we talking bantam or Jersey giant sized pockets?
I’d rather do 4 bantams, 2 Orpingtons, or a Muscovy duck. Then you can carry 8, 4, or 2 birds depending on the size. And how many chicks would that be? And for collect eggs to. I’d literally just sew a basket woven pocket into a skirt so the eggs don’t break like they do in regular pockets 😂
I made my mom an egg-collecting apron with individual pockets a couple years ago
Cute.
@@the_hearthfire I had my spouse pose the question of a potential egg-gathering apron, that would work for the type of egg gathering I do, as a potential labor saving device. I had posited a "work belt" situation for gardening, with either an add on or a separate "belt" for the livestock and egg-gathering. Haven't yet firmed up my plans, but I do have some amazingly outrageous light canvas of which to make it/them.
I remember one of my teachers showing a wedding picture and we liked her dress. She said yeah it even has pockets. Every Single Girl in the room gasped and we were all in aww we thought it was so cool.
POCKETS!
One of my favorite things about my Mother of the Groom dress was...pockets!
I made my wedding dress because I am insane. You can bet I put pockets in it!
My dress also had pockets! Deep ones too!
When I tell you I g a s p e d
As a kid I once asked my mother to hold something in her pocket and when she said she didn't have any pockets (despite wearing denim jeans) I was gobsmacked and outraged AND I STILL AM.
This is so cool! I'm Korean, and my ancestors carried these tie-in pockets called beokjumoni, which was thought to bring luck. I love learning about other cultures and watching your videos remind me of my days in Canada as a university student. Thank you for sharing!
A Korean friend of mine gave me a beokjumoni as a present once. It's so beautiful! I really cherish it.
Bernadette: tie-on pockets tied around the waist.
My brain: soooo...fanny packs have been around for longer than I thought.
Yes thats what i was thinking. Those were not ‘pockets’ bags tied to the waistline 😂
@@sushreeshashwata I call them super vintage fanny packs. Already made 4 of them, they're good for using up scraps (which is just another benefit).
Requisite giggle from a non American at the term “fanny pack”.
@@katherinemorelle7115 an american and i still giggle at the term fanny pack.... and also at how the terms "fanny" and "front bottom" exist in relation to that part of the female anatomy at all lol
@@kerriskb19 I've never heard "front bottom." Interesting...
the way she pulls fancy dagger scissors from the pocket in the back of her skirt like she's about to assassinate an enemy lord htschghbkiyb we stan forever 😭😭😭👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💖💖💖
A MOOD
honestly! i was like, "we need more of that." the reason for the scissors as well as the dress itself lol
Why I put my female characters in Victorian Formal Gowns: POCKETS (obviously, it's fiction so I exaggerate a bit while writing but like one of them hides a literal rapier amongst her petticoats and stores literally EVERYTHING in that back pocket lmaooo)
Murder Mittens by R. J. Blain. Death by sewing shears. Sanctioned even. Lovely series.
What I really don't get about women's pockets is the reasoning, I mean a phone sticking out someone's hip ruins someone's contour more than a flat bulge on their side.
obviously, the intention is not for you to have a phone on you at all. you should look pretty and let your husband take care of you lol.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Lololol!!
I officially got so angry over not being able to fit my phone in my jeans that I proceeded to cut up an old blue and white striped T-shirt and used it to make my pockets larger. The method I used (cutting up the existing pockets at the bottom & simply adding rectangle sized pieces of fabric) is a little crude, my stitches are probably not the prettiest or strongest and my fingers hurt for days afterwards, bc of course I don't have a sewing machine, BUT I can put stuff into my jeans & I'm really happy and proud of myself ngl xD
You should watch Abby Cox’s thimble video. She teaches how to properly use a thimble so that sewing doesn’t kill your hands for short projects like adding a pocket.
the rage you feel when you try to put something in your pocket only to discover it is only capable of holding three raisins and two coins
two dimes specifically
Even handbags suffer from the shrinkage. That, coupled with the pocket apocalypse, is why I now have purchased a bag that can carry multiple A4 books, my lunch, a water bottle and a medkit. Fashion can go die.
If that....
If it exists at all!
You guys are fitting 2 coins????
I want there to be a scene in a movie where a lady with giant panniers reaches into her pocket and starts removing items and placing them into the other pocket. A ribbon, a fan, a nose gay, a perfume bottle, a tea cup, a small dog, a collapsing parasol, before she finally finds the apple she was looking for.
It'll be a Mary Poppins sequel ;) Honestly though I'd love to see this in a movie.
Okay but this has to be AT LEAST a 45-second montage with the items getting bigger and more obscure as she nears the bottom of the pocket 😂😂
No live animals, please. As a replacement, how about using a pair of shoes (comfy if the ones she’s wearing are fancy or vice versa)?
Yes! Instantly reached the status of a Legend.
I want her to say "It must be here somewhere, I remember putting it in yesterday with the fine china set"
I remember complaining about lack of pockets as a teen, and my mother chided me, saying that pockets were ugly and tried to insist I wear clothing with fake pockets. Ugh.
As for masculine clothing and pockets, when my son was a toddler, his clothing had better pockets than mine did. He was 18 months!
I suffer a lot when I go dancing. You can't dance with a handbag. But you can't just leave your bag somewhere. Even if you don't have much stuff in there, a minimum of house keys, phone and some money/credit card you need to put somewhere.
Fanny packs need to become popular again.
Yes. YES !!!
@@americanbookdragon No, functional 🌻 POCKETS 🌻 need to come back again. Not another ugly, stiff belt (with breakable plastic clips!) to wear around the waist, sporting a fanny pack that won't hold half of what one or two decent-sized pockets (for men) would.
Also, pockets would feel less bulky & "in-the-way" everytime we had to bend over to pick up something, be it 'pen, coin, or kid'! 😏
My bff wanted bell bottoms for a 1960s costume. He found a pair in the ladies department that were a perfect fit. At home he was modelling them for me, and put his hands in the pockets. He was angry that he'd paid full price for what was obviously a mistake at the factory... an "irregular" as some would call it. "No," I said to him. "Now you understand my pain,"
Well, at least he may have gained some valuable insight into the nonsense women have had to deal with seemingly forever.
I have been complaining about the lack of inside pockets in jackets and coats since at least the early 90s (when I was a kid).
Also, "men's wallets" vs "women's wallets". Aaaargh!
Fake pockets make me want to scream, in the middle of Walmart
@@pinkajou656 Exactly! Why even bother putting them on if they are not going to be functional?
@@julietsrhino7079 UGGHHHH YES THE WALLETS ARE AN OUTRAGE!
@Gabriella Rossi unfortunately 😔 it was absolutely intensional
My first patternmaking class at fashion school a few years back, one of the first things our predominantly feminine class asked the teacher was how to add pockets to literally everything. Upon seeing the multiple pages of various pocket styles and options in the textbook everyone got very excited for the glorious possibilities for pocket supremacy.
Pocket supremacy, great word! lol
You had a great teacher.
What was the name of the book?
I put pockets in nearly everything. Must. Have. Pockets.
This sounds like heavenly
This is one thing I love about buying 1950's and 1940's clothing online. I don't know if this is a historical thing, or if the people making these kinds of clothes just know how important it is do have pockets, but every single 1950's dress or 1940's jumpsuit I've bought have had massive pockets, to the point where I can literally fit books in them. it's amazing.
Could you share the website that you bought it from? I'm definitely interested in buying dresses that have pockets in them.
Jumpsuits have pockets because they were originally designed for “jumping” out of aircraft…
Cargo pants have pockets on the thighs because pockets on the waist band are utterly inaccessible while wearing a parachute harness (and accessible sandwiches are utterly essential to paratroopers).
@@allangibson8494 the jumpsuits op was referring to are like dresses, but with trousers instead of a skirt... They were certainly not designed for jumping out of planes and have nothing to do with cargo pants.
@@kohlraedirectioner The origin of “jumpsuit” was literally for parachuting. What it moved on to is a totally different question…
The Germans started with smocks for the Fallshirmjager but the British tried them and found longer narrower legs worked better. Flight suits have a similar genesis (and similar pocket layouts).
@@allangibson8494 yes, what it moved on to *is* an entirely different question, which is why its origins are irrelevant to a discussion of said garment.
I started watching this video on a Friday night. 75% of the way through, I decided I needed to make a set of pockets for by gypsy costume. I left this current video to search for tutorials on how to make pockets. After realizing that it would be awesome to hand embroider a pocket I handmade, bought everything I needed to start embroidering the next day. By Sunday I had completed my first piece of stitch work. Now, Monday, I am finishing watching the video.
Productive procrastination?
Uhmmm... ethnicity is not a costume. Shouldn't be. Please give up on that "costume".
My Fashion Design teacher used to work for Dior during the Marc Bohan period, and he became friends with Elsa Schiaparelli. She had always worn her own clothing (marketing strategy), but when she retired, this old lady (and amazing designer) asked my teacher to create her new wardrobe, for as long as she lived. This is what she told him: "Manolito, you have total freedom to do what you want, except for two things: buttons that do not fasten, and fake pockets"
Perfectly reasonable limitations.
Buttons that do not fasten are my bane as a nursing mother! I would like to wear dresses, dresses must then open at the front in some form. And yet more than half the dresses with front buttons are not actually front-buttoning dresses! I bought one once that had a whole placket and everything so they appeared functional, and the loops for the buttons were sewn in place! At least the re-doing was simple enough.
I loathe both of these and yet, they are SO ubiquitous among all women's clothing since at the very least the late 1990s.
I love the sassiness as you defend the honor of historic garments against blasphemous lies and misinformation!
@Dana A-N IKR, UA-cam must be acting up again...
@@junecampbell2152
Patreon early access. We get to watch the video while it's still unlisted.
I would be disappointed if she didnt
Please she ignores a ton of evidence. I don't know why. It doesn't suit her narrative? She never talks about WWII and order L-85 and deletes any mention of it so who is spreading misinformation? No doubt this will be removed, but you will have it in your history and you will know, if this comment vanishes that it's because L-85 doesn't suit her narrative.
@@ioovoo1818 As Ms Banner's area of expertise is pre-1920s she's not ignoring anything. It's not a conspiracy, it's Ms Banner talking about a specific time frame.
I guess "you dropped your pocket" was a thing that could have actually happened then, rather than a schoolyard taunt.
Watching this has made me wonder whether the reason my great-grandmothers always wore an apron at home was because of the pockets. If they went out, they took their handbag, but whenever they were at home, they wore an apron with nice-sized patch pockets!
Me listening to the extensive history of tie on pockets:
"Wait does that mean the fanny pack is technically a tie on pocket?!?!"
yes. yes it is!
omg i can’t believe i didn’t put that together 😳 i literally wear my fanny pack almost every day
SAME HAT
Fanny pack sounds a bit vulgar for a piece of clothing, doesn't it? I always found this name quite... funny in that regard
@@Ganliard bum pack is more suitable lol
Typical conversion at work, when we used to go into the office:
Co-worker: I like your dress.
Me: Thank you, it has pockets! [shoves my hands into pockets to demonstrate]
other women fawning over skirts with pockets is both the most pure and simultaneously infuriating thing because we need pockets, goddammit!
This frustrates me because the very fact this is a cultural trend for all women shows that women want pockets , it proves that there’s a market for them, and yet they don’t exist
And a HOOD that actually fits ones head!
Once 30 years or so ago, i bought a winter coat, "unisex" obviously!!!🥺😓🤪🤬, that had miraculously two outer deep pockets, one inner pocket, and one pocket near the zippers seam that can't be seen, with s deep proper hood.
It was miraculous even back then.
Paid four to five coats worth of money to it, because it was my size (I have a height impediment called being tall for a standard woman🤬). Bland black coat. But it was the star of the work that winter. Not because of it's boring cut, neither bland colour, and not non-existing adornments. Because of hood and pockets. I still have it. Worn but still usable.
Men's clothing is both sturdier, much easier to pair(more like near impossible to clash if you re not working heavily towards it), much much easier to pay, and easier to use.
@@havvagokce1441 When i went thrifting (before pandemic etc) i chose only men's pants and coats. They last FOREVER, even the old cheap ones! Also am tall so there's that. My "feminine" pants are dissolving after 5 years and these ancients (90s) are still strong, comfortable and goes perfectly with very girly extravagant sometimes obscene tees and tank tops. Accidental style. I don't like to hide when it's warm so the extremes balance eachother.
I know when I go place with in a dress with pockets I always have something in there so ppl know that my dress has pockets, even if I have my purse with me I will shove as much as I can into the pocket so it is visible
If I were going to take over the world and change exactly one thing, I would go up to every single CEO of fashion companies, and ask them about their policies regarding pockets. They will be informed that this interview is life or death, but they will not be informed as to which answer will allow them to live, to promote honesty. If they say that women's clothing doesn't need pockets, and that we can just use bags, they will unceremoniously be shot. Advocates for proper pocket equality will be allowed to live
I would support doing this for many other industries as well. Gaming companies and the subject of lootboxes and microtransactions. Technology companies and privacy. Media companies and copyright. Resource/energy companies and climate change. I doubt more than 5% of the world's CEOs would be left alive after such a process.
@@Roxor128 we should team up for world domination then
🤣
This would be a beautiful example of social evolution in action 💖
@@MissingRaptor Natural selection to. Weed out the stupid and cruel. Maybe distribute there wealth to people who need it as well. Two birds with one stone and all that.
I was given a dress with pockets and just the thought of having a item of clothing that could actually hold an object made me so exited, I don't think I have ever been more pleased receiving a piece of clothing
When my husband’s jeans wear out, I steal his back pockets and slap them on my own backside.
I will not be stopped in this matter.
Good idea. I find Jean's I like, but they have the flaps with buttons on the back pocket. Can't put a phone or really anything in them.
I need to start doing this! You are a genius!
Reasons why I’m learning to sew 1. Pockets 2. More pockets 3 seriously pockets
Why wait? find some fabric and makes some for every garment you own!
Why wait for him to wear them out..?
I made my own dress for my graduation ceremony in 2019, and it had a victorian bag pocket that was 12 inches long - the look on peoples faces when I pulled out a glasses case, water bottle, programme and lip balm was spectacular
😂
I wish I could see such a wonderous creation for myself! 😢
Who ever you are I love you...
Hence, you created a mini Mary Poppins bag.
Can you teach me??? 🤯
A few years ago my sister's then-boyfriend was staying over for dinner. They were planning to go to the pub and she said she didn't want to take her handbag with her because it's always in her way and there is the risk of losing the d*mn thing. Boyfriend said to just leave the handbag at home to which she said she couldn't because where would she put her keys, phone and wallet? I bet you can already guess his reply... "JuSt PuT iT In YoUr PoCkEtS!". My sis and I both laughed and said that we couldn't because our pockets are too small or nonexistent. He said that we were being difficult and then got up to demonstrate how his wallet fits perfectly in his front pocket. We were like "Yeah good for you, but we can't do that." and kinda continued complaining to each other about our tiny pockets until my sister's boyfriend really got fed up with it and called us drama queens. That's when my sister got up and demanded that he put his hands in the pockets of her jeans.
He did and man he was so shocked! It was kinda funny. He asked if all our pants were like this and we were like "Jup!". He did a 180 right then and there and started ranting about how we should protest this and my sister and I were like "Oh really, what a novel idea!".
Also... I have this one jeans that I only wear to do dirty work. It doesn't have any pockets and I keep forgetting that. It pisses me off every time I put it on. Even worse when I drop my phone because I tried to put it in the nonexisting pocket.
Also also... Inside pockets. So many men's jackets and coats have them and I want those too!
I find the existence of both Pocket Philosophers and Pocket Theorists endlessly entertaining.
Women’s pockets are so frustrating. Once I was complaining about women’s pockets and my brother said I was exaggerating and that women’s pockets weren’t that bad, so I said, “out of the two of us who has worn both men’s *and* women’s clothing? Me! Because women’s pockets are so small I’ve resorted to were men’s pants!!”
I wore a belt with pockets over my outfit to a concert one time and while in line a girl complimented me on it. I told her I got it cause it was my reaction to clothes without pockets or small ones and instantly there was an outcry about the size of women's pockets on all sides from every women who heard. The guys in front of us were bewildered. Very funny.
@@sleepykat13 That sounds great 😂
Best way to show an example? Put on some women's jeans, have him wear his jeans, and find like, a phone or something and see how far it sticks down in the pocket.
Nothing wrong with wearing man pants
There was a nursery rhyme that confused me until I learned about tie on pockets.
“Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it.
Not a penny was there in it,
Just ribbon ‘round it.”
This makes so much more sense if the pocket wasn’t sewn into a garment.
Here you talked about western clothing but like it's the same in other parts of the world. I wear shalwar kameez basically Pakistani clothing and have the same problem I have no pockets on my clothes while the shalwar kameez of my brother has 3 pockets.
Oh no!! 🥺 I had always hoped that people wearing sari, kimono, hanbok & kameez (with all the lovely fabric draping) had managed to sneak some pockets or tie-in pockets under that extra fabric, but it sounds like pocket supremacy is a truly international issue! ✊🌍
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 It is. Apparently pockets don't good with women's clothes but if men's clothes have 3 of them it is never a problem.
In the early 2000s when "goth"s (me) were wearing extremely oversized pants, my pockets were big enough to hold a 2 litter of soda and a roasted chicken to the movie theaters. I never bought popcorn. 😆
My significant other was unawares of this torture thrust upon women until he went shopping with me and I repeatedly turned down one pair of jeans after another because I NEED pockets. He has joined our fight.
Huzzah! 🎉it must be celebrated when we find support! More of this please and thank you 🙏🏻
Tell him that fellow pursuers of good pocketry welcome him!
I have also brought a male over to the side of women's pockets! I need mine as well, and my male friend realized in horror because I refuse purses.
Have you considered making the pockets bigger yourself?
My husband has too joined, he understands why to make most my clothes now.
Wait, you’re telling me I could have had a pocket to hold a whole LOAF of bread?!
Six or seven bread rolls, at the very least.
The real point is what fits a loaf of bread could also fit a bottle of wine ;)
A pannier for your pain. I told a group of costume students about these and they lost it
Imagine, if you will, pulling an entire bagette out of ones pocket
The fact that I cannot pull an entire loaf of bread out of my pocket is a disappointment and a disgrace. Brb imma make a giant pocket to fit bread in.
my school uniform skirt/pinafore has one okay-sized pocket on one side and a zipper to undress on the other side, and too many times, as a left-hander, have i nearly undressed myself in the effort of just trying to use my darn pocket.
THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTE BRILLIANT, DEAR BERNADETTE!
The sole fact that women's upper clothes, coats, jackets, etc never have an inner chest pocket while men's clothes ALWAYS have it outrages me to the extent that volcano eruption would seem harmless in comparison with this.
A decade or so ago I purchased a ladies coat with 22 pockets. I can still feel the glow from the envy of ladies around me as they watched me delve into them to find everything they had to put in their handbag to carry,
I bought a coat that had 6 large pockets, never had to carry a purse while I wore it.
Where can I find one?
I need to see a picture of this coat!
I make use of sleeveless vests, generally bought in the men's department.
What is the brand of that coat???!
My friend made her own cape full of pockets, and we managed to sneak:
a half bottle of wine,
half a rotisserie chicken
and a Caesar salad into a movie theater.
It was glorious
That is incredible my friend
I have an oversized men's denim jacket that I sew all my patches to. The inside pockets comfortably conceal two bottles of wine and two hip flasks.... priorities ;)
Your friend might enjoy "the name of the wind" ^^
I knitted a small cape (reaches about the end of my fingertips) about a year ago out of yarn scraps and added six pockets. Unfortunately, mine are small, so i wouldn’t be able to put all of that in them.
@@alicepeace5101 Exactly. This, aside from comfort, is why we shop the men’s section lol.
I love how, despite the fact the Bernadette Banner is well versed in the ins and outs of pre-ww1 history and fashion, she still has the whit and humor of gen-z.
Shall we talk about the delicious irony of those sewing projects that take women's jeans and make them into handbags?
My grandson once sewed a tube sock to one of his pockets that had ripped out at the bottom of his jeans and called it a socket. He stored all kinds of things in there...he was 12.
Hilarious! Read a meme a while back where a kid called his pockets ‘snack holes’.
He's going places
A well-executed pun! And so innovative!!
This kid sounds amazing
Did he go places? XD
This is video that should be played for any designer, so they won't do this blasphemous thing that is fake pockets. I hate them. Thank you Bernadette for this video essay, it really brighten my day.
I don’t mind fake pockets in places where you can’t really use it anyway - like some styles call for a breast pocket for the standard ‘look’ of the style, but if you have boobs (Eta: I meant this to say big boobs - smaller boobs depending on the cut of the garment it can work but as they get larger there’s just geometry issues involved) you can’t USE said pockets because as soon as you put something in them it just pokes out weirdly and isn’t functional. But there should be useful pockets in places where they will work with the shape of the body.
I've found a blazer at some point that looked like it had fake pockets. I was unhappy with that and started investigating the seams to see if I couldn't add some. Turned out there WERE (small) pockets there but they had simply sewn the opening shut, as a design choice. Seriously?!
@@sourcedancer7079 I have a few pair of pants with similar sewn shut pockets on the back side.
@@sourcedancer7079 I know next to nothing about these things, but I've been told that the sewing of the pockets is something that's done to keep it pristine until it's used. Most suit jackets I bought were sewn shut and you were expected to cut them open.
@@sourcedancer7079
Not as a design choice, just to keep the garment still looking its best by the time it reached you.
This video makes me want to create an easy but HUGE pocket pattern to add onto all women's clothing and widely distribute it for free.
Also, I'm so loving the hand embroidery she did on her tie-on pockets.
The embroidery was made by someone else, Bernadette has another video on the making of that pocket.
Bernadette, YOU are a hoot. I love your restrained outrage.
Let us all rise up together in our pocket revolution!
PLEASE make a part two, showing how to alter small pockets and how to make fake pockets into real pockets. I know you will do a brilliant job.
At this point I watch your stuff for the following reasons:
15% interest in historical garments
25% fawning over how amazing you make them look
20% pure subtitle sass
40% memery
Forgot the voice/accent and vocabulary
Bernadette Banner is "The modern day, American, Professor Minerva McGonagall", and there will be no convincing me otherwise.
The reason she needs bigger pockets to fit her microphone pack is that undetectable extension charms tend to mess with the delicate electronics.
Even other cats envy her elegance.
THIS
@@k1tkat-kate YES
YES
Last autumn I made my own (tie-on)pockets, embroidered them prettily so they can be worn under, and also over clothing. and I now wear them almost every day. There are many items that permanently live in those pockets. like bankcards, thimbles, lighters, measuretapes, scissors, keys, cat toys, washi tape, pens and many more. i only need to take my pockets and I am ready to go anywhere. I can recommend making them to anyone. they can also be a great starter project since it does not have complicated turns or gathering.
Me *carrying a comically large backpack because I refuse to spend money on a purse, but I also live in leggings*: I’m listening
I was watching this with my little sister, and at 0:46, we both said in unison, "I want to carry a chicken."
omg ...dying !!!!lolol
I am currently planning a skirt project to go with the tie on pockets I'm going to make to carry my chickens around in
Bring back the pockets or we revolt at dawn!
How are you here at 23 hours when it was posted 29 minutes ago???
@@Thehistorylover101 Probably Patreon
I am always revolting before 7 am.
Can we push the revolt to 3 or 4 pm? I get off work at dawn lol
@@overworkedkitten4399 You can continue the revolt when we're all too tired.
Been learning to sew lately and one of the first things I did was give a pair of jeans I have real pockets. (Fake pockets are seriously a crime) Can't tell you how thrilled I was when I saw how easily my phone fit into them.
"purely distilled passive rage"
Aaaaaaand I'm subscribed.
"professional pocket scholars" is something you just said with a straight face
The tone of the editing is giving me life *inserts Chef's Kiss à la Rachel Maksey(TM)* 😏😏
Yes *shaking memes intensify*
Rachel would be all over this she’s always looking for pockets to stash her mic
yup
A few months ago my school finally added trousers for girls to the uniform. It would have been SO FUCKING EASY to just.....take the same ones that were already there???????
But of course they had to make new ones.
Guess who has proper pockets and who doesn't.
Sounds like an opportunity to do some fun modifications!😅
This is completely outrageous and sexist as hell. No school should have separate uniforms for girls and boys in the first place. Wear boys' uniform to the school and if they dare to say something to you get your parents to sue the school in the court for discrimination. I'm sure the law is on your side. This is absolutely unacceptable.
This video warms my heart so much! Since I got my first smartphone 5 years ago I managed to buy 1 (ONE) skirt with pockets that can actually carry such a "big" item. I had to learn how to sew to finally be in possesion of another such skirt. I'm going to bookmark this video and watch it every time I want to buy/sew a piece of clothing. Pockets are life!
Nothing feels better on a rainy day than sipping a cup of tea whilst watching a delightfully educated rant. Thank you for that, Bernadette.
Well said 😁 🫖
It's sunny over here and I was eating tacos, but same
It isnt that educated. It is cherry picking. Pockets disappeared partly due to wwii and the rationing of fabric.
Exactly my vibe rn 🌧️☕
@@YTistooannoying
Then why didn’t masculine pockets suffer the same fate?
I’ve gotten so fed up with pockets lacking in my clothing that I modified 90% of my pre-existing clothes to have them using the cabbage I have. Additionally since I started making my own clothing I have total control of my pockets which makes me feel admittedly drunk with power.
@Aurora Sutch - The control of pocket-no pocket in women's clothing IS a power dynamic, isn't it?
Me too. I also took a leaf out of Ms Banners book and created a tie on pocket for those skirts that simply won't take the addition of a sewn in pocket.
It is not just pockets that make me drunk with power. It is hemlines. It is waists that are big enough for my non-standard shape. It is shoulders that fit my narrow shoulders and enough size for my big-ass boobs at the same time. It is fabrics that will hold up to wear and tear and in colours of my own choosing. Sewing is an act of rebellion in the modern world full stop.
I alwayse make my pockets spitefully large and i cant wait to get to the end of the summer once we can get together and pull a bottle of wine from each pocket
@@susanrobertson984 Thy speech dost make this red-headed heart sing! Break out the thread and patterns! We revolt at dawn! XD
Lol, I actually just got my sewing machine repaired a week or so ago. My grandma's old 60's Singer, and apparently a tiny little piece underneath had gotten bent just enough to screw with the tensioning when we moved. (The repair guy almost cried when he had to give my machine back. Apparently, few machines of that age pass through his shop in such good condition/repair. According to him, there wasn't a speck of dust on the internals. ...I'm thinking my hubby cleaned my machine for Christmas when I wasn't looking. XD) Plus, my ward kite-making project is done, so I no longer have that looming deadline. *cracks knuckles and cackles* Today, I will be pulling my machine out and giving my friends on Discord an impromptu sewing lesson as I buckle down on piecing together the quilt I've had squirreled away for the last 10 months! 🤣 Gotta get practicing before my son really hits his growing stride. Poor kid got the body dimensions of my side of the family. He's 5, and wears a 3T waist, 8 length in pants, and his shoulders need at least a size 7 shirt. My grandpa was 6'7"...and almost identical in dimensions (36" waist, 54" inseam pants. Was like someone put a pair of pants on a ladder and stuck a bear on top...), and my 17 yr old brother is already outgrowing his size 14 shoes. I dread when my son gets into middle/high school... 😭
I love the story about when Levi started making jeans for Women, back then they were made for working in so the men who designed them were practical and assumed the women using them would need big old pockets proportionally sized to the jeans like the men's i.e. fricking huge... but when they started getting popular casualwear and fashionable they brought in actual fashion designers who proceeded to make the pockets basically or actually non existent.
As a man, I'd be offended if my jeans pockets couldn't fit the head, and enough handle of my medium-sized framing hammer in it, for it to stay balanced in. It's super annoying to be doing some casual construction work, and just barely not have enough hands for the work I'm doing.
My daughter's weren't sure about their new school blazers until I said "look, loads of pockets" 😁 I buy men's clothes when I can - the lack of pockets in women's clothes drives me nuts!
I was on the elevator at work once and the other person with me complimented my dress, to which I naturally responded, "Thanks! It has pockets!" and being a man, he was baffled why this was a point of excitement for me. *facepalm* I don't know if the pocket challenges are getting any better, but even my latest pairs of pajama shorts have decent pockets, which I like mostly because then I have somewhere to put my left hand while brushing my teeth.
My husband tells me that if a woman is complemented wearing an outfit with pockets it is your obligation to exclaim "Thanks, it has pockets" and then shove your hands into said pockets to punctuate your point. I think he's been paying attention :D
🤣
A family member has decided that if ever he opens a clothing store for women he's going to name it "Thanks it has pockets," and sell only items with pockets. Sadly he is an engineer rather than a fashion store owner.
@@trinamorrison2570 That's a winning business idea, right there!
@@trinamorrison2570 that just means he needs to engineer all the awesome garments with pockets - and have a business partner for all those other businessy things :) But this needs to be a thing...Women would flock there....I mean if we dare enter a place called "Dress Barn"- "Thanks, it has pockets" is a sure fire win! :)
As someone who sincerely LOVES handbags and purses, I still very much need large pockets. Am I going to carry my purse around my home, just because it has my phone? No.
Exactly! I can put up with carrying a handbag in some contexts, but at home? Forget it!
Yes, thank you! Sometimes I don't want to have to carry my purse while I'm walking around in public on the street. I fear that I'll be seen as an easy target and get robbed. Because my valuables are not on my person.
I love how informative is this video, but it has infuriated me even more about the BLATANT LACK OF POCKETS.
Now that I had taken that our of my chest, I hope you keep doing amazing content, and that you find yourself in good health during such harsh times as the ones we find ourselves nowadays :)
One of my biggest disappointments in life are lack of pockets in women’s clothing!!!! Thank you for addressing this subject!
My husband worked for a while doing IT for a company who designed & manufactured the clothes for a large percentage of the UK high St. I begged him to ask them why women’s clothing had no decent pockets and the reply was ‘women still buy the clothes without pockets’.
Yeah, my brain nearly exploded too.
How are we to express a preference for clothes with good pockets when that isn’t among what is offered at all?
only boycott can solve this 😭
@@handleless986 Go back to making our own clothing! Boycott (Or girlcott, since this boycott would involve only women and girls, lol) the whole bloody fashion industry! (Fashion should never have become an industry anyway, the Industrial Revolution ruined clothing, especially women's clothing.)
This anti-pocket theme is creeping into mens clothing as well jackets and shirts that have fake non functioning pockets along with jeans and trousers where the internal section of the side pocket rips apart if used for more then a couple of coins. Sure there is the strange thrill as your loose change & keys slide down your leg into your shoe and the ability to adjust inner garments with ease but I would seriously consider a kilt & sporran if I had the legs for one.
@@harrybetteridge7532 Omg the wording for coins sliding down your legs gave me quote the giggle 😂 Thank you for this smile lol
*thrusts hand into 2010s jeans pockets only to find them deep enough for my fingers, remembering even tighter jeans in the 1980s and being able to reach halfway up my forearms*
Now, I'm pissed.
This! My older cousins' jeans despite fitting had huge pockets, in the new ones I can barely fit a lip balm tube :/
I was in such a state of disbelief I had to do some research and finding the truth, all I could say was “WhAt.” Over and over. I am appalled. Furious. Not only do most if not all modern reproductions of these jeans REFUSE to add the glorious dream of a forearm pocket despite the vacant need for doing so, but THEY MADE FAKE POCKETS FOR THESE TOO
I recently switched to wearing mostly 80s and 70s clothing and nearly all my clothes have pockets at least big enough for a larger phone or pen, lip balm, pill box, and several others.
@@emjenkins464 Where do you find them, I must know! (Also thrift store recommendations if you have em?)
@@featherquill9476 monki jeans have proper pockets! I can get a phone comfortably into the *front* jean pockets. It's game changing
I absolutely LOVE listening to how Bernadette explains fashion history!
Even now, I am smiling and chuckling while still acknowledging that I haven't a decent pocket in anything but an old winter coat!
Thank you profoundly for this eloquent presentation on pockets. I found this video in my 12 year old daughter’s feed and you are precisely the example of intelligent and educated women I hope she emulates.
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry women.
It is the music of the people
Who will always have pockets again!
Le miserable pockets: the musical.
Yes, YEs, YES!
When we've no space for our things
Neither in front nor on our bums
We'll reclaim spacial liberty
🚩When tomorrow comes🚩
YES
Oh, my happy, little heart. :')
As a geology education major, I can tell you that I only wear men's cargo pants when going out into the field because only then will I be assured that I have enough pockets to keep snacks, rocks, and the occasional med kit supply item. I absolutely loved this video because it put all the sass and salt into one perfect video, complete with references!!!
Have you tried blackhawk brand women's cargos? My friend who's a security guard did her research to find the best functional ladies' clothes for her job (since her employer didn't see fit to provide any whatsoever) and they are wonderfully pocketed and... They look and feel great! If the guys' pants work for you, though, that's great ☺️
Men's cargo pants are amazing leg purses. 😁
ALL my coats have REDICULOUSLY roomie pockets that I adore. I also store all my rock and fossil samples in them! %D
I'm a man and I always use a tool belt in the field because of the lack of pockets in most pants
@@CattyTomfoolery That is 150% me in high school. I'd safety pin the cargo pockets from worn out pairs onto the legs of pairs that didn't have cargos.
I'm a Historian with a specialty in Women & Gender. I was reading an academic article about pockets, and the author discussed older women in the early Regency period refusing to give up their tie on pockets. She humorusly described the tie on style as being very generous, "capable of holding a bushel of apples, or a litter of kittens... or a small child"
Anytime you use the words “purely distilled passive rage,” I immediately know this is gonna be good. And you did not disappoint. I absolutely agree with you and although I prefer sewn-in pockets for their security, I often wonder why they can’t still be as big as the tie-on ones (unless it’s a window pocket like the heart-shaped one in Morgan Donner’s pocket-sewing video, but even then they should still be very roomy)
Side note: Are you related to Bertha Banner? Or is the last name just coincidence?
I recently made a hip bag (with an option to wear a leg belt with it), and the more I look, the more I realize history does move in cycles. I can fit a standard water bottle in it, along with my phone, wallet, keys, neat rock, ect. I also did figure out a pocket design that can work on light swooshy skirts and dresses, provided there's a good waistband. Mind, I've only worn a skirt once in the last 10 years, and avoid them like the plague
My mom used to sew existing pockets in my good clothes shut, so I wouldn‘t mess up my outfit by carrying things around in them. We had very heated discussions on the subject.
I do hope, pray even, that your mother stopped with this horror movie level of a trauma inducing action-
@@-ix-3152 She learned the error of her strategy once I discovered that the „funny tool“ in the sewing box is called a seam ripper. 😌 Seam rippers and embroidery scissors quickly became dear friends.
@Alexandra Adamczyk Dare I say it? She actually does that to herself if she has large pockets in a fancy outfit, lest she succumbs to temptation and wrinkles her outfit by actually using the pockets. 😅 (And yes, she loves handbags.)
My mom sews her own pockets shut and tries to forbid both me and my dad from using pockets for aesthetics reasons. Then she's mad at me for carrying around massive backpacks all the time. She's also a pro covert bigotry in every way type of person tho so it does make a lot of sense
@@miglek9613 man that sucks. Heres an internet cookie 🍪 and a virtual hug! Wish you the best
"Hey, What are you doing, are you busy? Wanna hang out?"
"Super busy, yea. I'm watching a youtube video about pockets and it's riveting. Go on without me. i'm done for the day"
Funny story: I know this shop were there is a lot of cheap clothes and the men/women section are not properly separate. I tried some vest and I was like "oh it have DEEP pocket and another pocket inside" It kind of looked "oversized" style but it was nice and cheap so I bought them .....
It's when I arrived home and showed them to my family that they told me it was men's vest....😅
That's definitely explains the pockets .
I love them, really nice, practical, sturdy. I think I will go buy clothes in the man section more often 😆
As a man, I think I'd be a little puzzled at first seeing you selecting clothes for yourself there, but if I heard you say "It's for the pockets" I'd absolutely love it. I love practicality, and that would be such a treat to witness.
A family member of my cousins was giving her some clothes and we were allowed to try on the clothes that didn't fit her. There was a skirt that fit so, I took it and BY GOD THE THING HAS REAL POCKETS!!