Give women proper pockets

I want pockets too!

I have a few items with good pockets and they get worn more than anything else. Because of the pockets. I hate bags if I can manage without one I will.

As for 'spoiling the line' - with my figure, that is the very least of my worries.

The pockets of patriarchy

I either want proper pockets or none. The tiny ones or pretend line is so annoying.

Mainly though I want choice. A range of clothes. some women prefer high heels or clothes without pockets so don't get rid of them, but also design stylish flat foot shaped shoes and a coat with pockets that actually hold stuff.

I bought some dresses from H&M with decent pockets- £12.99 a pop. They’re good for summer.

Yeah fake drawstring- what is with that?
I also love proper pockets. I remember a while back there was a thread on this very subject and someone called the useless womens ones ' The pockets of patriarchy!'

I’m a journalist. A proper old school, notebook and shorthand, hack.

Imagine my joy when I found a dress which fits a spiral bound pad and my phone in the front pocket.

So what if it spoils the line.

I agree. I dress to please myself.

Or if walking fancy bum bags: decathlon (sporty) Tiger - looks like a watermelon slice (!!!!!!!!)

Uniqlo!!!!! Proper pockets ! Some, get this, with hidden ZIPS (faints).

Lands end also.

All saints jackets. M
Also if you are tiny, H&M boys clothes, life changing pockets.

Yes to pockets!! We went out for a walk today, and I didn’t want to take a bag, strolling through fields. But couldn’t fit my phone in my pockets, so had to give it to DP, who fit it in one of the SIX decent sized pockets in his cargo shorts.

Bags are so bad for backs & shoulders too.

I will join a campaign for pockets for women. Loudly & vocally.

oh yes, and jacket pockets please! So what if it spoils the line. I would like to have the option of putting my phone and keys in a pocket. I have small cross body bags that can only hold purse, phone and keys, that I use for times I don't really need to carry much and want my hands free. Would be nice to carry nothing and shove the important stuff in pockets like DH does.

I agree. I want pockets in my clothing.

yep, I love a dress with pockets!

DD was asking for clothes with pockets for her treasures the other day, she's 4. Realised that the only shorts she had with pockets were actually designed for boys. Shorts designed for little girls don't have pockets, shorts for boys do.

I've managed to find a couple of school summer dresses with pockets for her, so far not found any winter school dresses with pockets. I've decided I'm going to try to only buy her clothes with pockets if at all possible. Girls should have pockets to put interesting stone/shell/leaf in as well as boys.

Makes me cross that I can barely get a bank card into my jeans pockets and DH saunters off with huge set of keys, wallet, phone, pens...

In the dim past in the mid to late 70s when I wore jeans I bought Levi's men's jeans. "Women's jeans" weren't really a thing (or if they were they were horribly uncool things that mums wore). A man's waist 26 was the equivalent of a size 8. I couldn't get anything much in the pockets beyond my student ID card. I do recall carrying a cheque card in the back pocket and it snapped.

Oh yes pockets are a real feminist issue.

I have a couple of dresses from Toast with fabulous deep pockets but they tend to be oversize styled items and not to everyone's taste. And pricey (I only buy in sales or eBay)

Makes me cross that I can barely get a bank card into my jeans pockets and DH saunters off with huge set of keys, wallet, phone, pens...

Sign me up too. I've recently taken to putting my stuff in my partner's pockets, with an instruction for him to complain to women's clothes manufacturers if he doesn't like it.

Branleuse

I hate pockets in trousers and dresses. Completely ruins the line of them, and accentuates my already ample hips.

I like pockets but only for putting things like a tissue or my reading glasses in. I agree they spoil the line. I have several coats with quite deep pockets but try to avoid using them for anything more than gloves. I never carry phone, keys or money in them.

I prefer a bag me too. It makes me wince seeing people obviously carrying phones or wallets in jeans pockets. From the point of security I think bags like the cross- body Radley pocket-bags are far more secure.

Bags are also harder to carry over a heavy coat, so again, pockets in coats!

The only coat I have with inside pockets is from Lands End. If you have pockets, you can go out without a bag, which is very liberating.

I hear ya.

And yes to the inside pockets.

We have two dogs and I do a lot of dog walking and, yes, my winter coat (a parka) has deep pockets so fine for poo bags, treats, phone, tissues, leads, everything.

In summer I prefer a sleeveless jacket but the pockets you could maybe get a handkerchief in. That's it. I am currently wearing my mum's old bodywarmer from the 80s that she was finally throwing out. It has a rip on the back because I caught it on some barbed wire. DH calls it my 'market trader fallen on hard times' look. Fecker.

But I dare not throw it out because, insubstantial though the pockets are, it is better than anything else that I've seen in the shops.

Any recommendations for a sleeveless jacket with decent pockets? Budget maybe 100 quid or so and I honestly couldn't care less what it looks like.

Yes! I want proper pockets!

Sadly the fake drawstring is also used in men's clothes (or at least boys) I've lost track of the number of fake drawstring trousers I've got for my skinny boys. I check every tine now.

Another yes to inside pockets in jackets!

I have "borrowed" (i.e. he is never getting it back) DH's denim jacket. It has such an incredible array of pockets. It can fit a full set of keys, phone and purse easily with tons of room to spare. I can't believe how we get fobbed off with pockets - my jacket has 2 shallow pockets (can fit keys but phone is precarious as it easily slips out and definitely not a purse) and 2 more that aren't really pockets, they are some kind of bizarre and useless decoration that really winds me up.

On the sleeveless dresses issue, not only do women mostly want sleeves, M&S are designing primarily for the UK. How often in the British climate is sleeveless really the best option from a practical perspective?

Sleeves, clothes are meant to have them!