To be consumed with jealousy?

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Sorting laundry, I have just discovered that, not only do dh's trousers have large, deep pockets made of strong fabric with strong seams, but they also have a change pocket at the bottom of the main pocket! A proper, little, well-made pocket so your change won't rattle around or get pulled out and flung across the room when you take your phone out of your pocket!

And, to add insult to injury, when I mentioned this to dh he didn't know anything about it!

Good design is wasted on men

Even my four years old PJ's have pockets! He uses them to store blueberries in. I only discovered this after I washed the damned things.

I bought a pair of black trousers for work specifically because they had pockets only to find they were fake pockets... Fucking fake pockets!!!

I used to wear a denim jacket which had millions of pockets. I never used a bag or purse. It wore out.

I used to have a really nice pouchy-thing, just big enough for a mobile, which hung round my neck. That wore out too. I haven't been able to find another. They're all too big and garish.

I hate the lack of pocket in women's clothes, but also many of the fabrics used for women are unsuitable for pockets.

I too have a dress with pockets - quite good ones even! - from Coastline.

Have you ever tried using it for change? There's enough room for your bus fare, house keys in the bigger part, debit card in back pocket, phone in t'other back pocket, Bobs your uncle.

Nursery put tissues in the pockets of DS’s shorts and trousers that I didn’t know about until they were washed

There were a lot of bitty trousers the following week at nursery!

DP has gone the opposite way. When he first joined me in my dog walking business six years ago he had everything stuffed into pockets - client's keys, vehicle keys, our house keys, poo bags, treats, as well as wallet, phone - we never leave anything worth nicking in our dog vans as we're as vulnerable to car crime in lonely rural car parks as anyone else. Obviously this was way beyond the capacity of anything except possibly PigletJohn's super-trousers, so a lot of it went into the pockets of his fleece or jacket. All very well and good until you get hot weather. So that first summer I suggested he get a dog bag like mine, which is basically a cross body handbag in waterproof nylon and with waterproof inner lining. Point blank refusal. He proceeded to half kill himself with heatstroke by continuing to walk on warm days in a winter weight fleece just because it had pockets.

Then this spring he said - as though I'd never suggested it - that he could really do with a bag like mine and could I keep my eye open for one in my regular charity shop trawls.

I found him one in black. He adores it. He takes it everywhere, even when he's not dog-walking and even this weekend when he was wearing a coat. He raves about the brilliance of 'his idea' to all his mates. Their wives meanwhile all know the true story of course .

I’m sure I was told the tiny pocket in jeans was for gold nuggets. Really fiddly to get coins out. I love my skirts with pockets and feel so short changed when they skimp on inside jacket pockets. Even my DDs are lusting over inside jacket pockets, especially the six year old.

I think one of my greatest achievements in life was finding and purchasing a wedding dress with pockets smug

I’m sure I was told the tiny pocket in jeans was for gold nuggets That's going to be called my nugget pocket from now on

YANBU.

Good design is wasted on men

Two of the dresses I bought for holiday have fabulous pockets, I was so excited but kept it a secret from my husband as he would have wanted me to stuff them with crap to save him stuffing his multiple pocket shorts. They were perfect for my phone and sunglasses.

I love this poem.

my stupid ex refused to use his pockets for anything functional and would regularly pass me his stupid crap to put in my bag. Even if I didn't want to take it, he would ask me to just so he could load it with his stupid crap. He now carries a bag. Not even a proper rucksack, but a fucking cross-body bag, which isn't even as good as Joey's bag in that friends man-bag episode, but a useless small piece of stupid shit.

Pockets is why I started buying clothes from Toast, I have a safari style jacket with four useful pockets, sadly no inside pockets though.

My mum always goes on about needing pockets.

Annoyingly, my DS's beach shorts have pockets...which either balloon up to the surface full of air, or extremely irritatingly, fill with sand in the waves.

I have to force myself at work to occasionally wear something other than (smart, non denim coloured) jeans because it's so convenient to go to the cantine with just my phone and my work badge (which has money on it to pay for food). When I'm in skirts or smart trousers I have to lug my handbag with me which I hate

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I didn’t have a pattern . I just drew round a pair that I bought ( that had NO pockets ) to get the shape then fiddled around .
Then I took the first pair back ...because they had NO pockets !

The joy of realising that you have pockets that have been stitched up. I had a jacket for 3 months before noticing it had a small hole in the seam. Unpicking the thread was marvellous

My daughter’s boyfriend is nicknamed Pockets because we all went to a wedding - she was a bridesmaid - and the pockets in his suit were very useful for her phone, inhaler, lipstick etc. He even made room for my car keys. Lovely chap.

My wedding dress had pockets

Also I’d like to point out that men’s tops/tshirts/whatever don’t have those fucking ludicrous drive me up the sodding wall little ribbons on the inside. I cut the little fuckers off the minute I get them home.

Thanks. Will think up many pocketed pants. I did think that a handbag bra might be an idea. Like a bumbag but a bra with utility pockets.

A cargo bra. Not that mine doesn't have enough cargo already.

It has pockets is the correct response.

A small recommendation for ski jackets in the winter. They are fashionable and have lots of pockets. Including a special inside pocket for phone/music player device with a hole for the earphone lead. Some have a zip in the armpits in case it's a bit warm and you need a breeze.

@sexnotgender I'm with you on those, if you mean the ones which are in a loop sewn into the shoulder but which I sometimes manage to put my arm through by accident? supposedly they're something to do with hanging things up but honestly WHO hangs up all their t-shirts?