Pockets in dresses. Sorry, but I really don't see what all the hype is about

[ActuallyMummy]

Everyone on instagram seems to be obsessed with any garment that has pockets. I've tried to see the benefit, I really have. I've even started to post about dresses I own that have pockets, and wax lyrical about how much I love them, but I'm just not feeling it. I'd much rather carry a bag. What is the big deal with pockets??

You don't have to like them, wear them or post anything on social media about them. Problem solved!

I imagine they're a 'thing' because they're unusual, and women's clothes - including trousers - more frequently than not don't have pockets, or have useless ones for aesthetic purposes only. I don't personally post - or see - anything about clothes on my social channels so haven't seen it myself (but will occasionally have a conversation with my work colleague who buys dresses and will comment when she finds one with pockets).

Are you crazy?

I am currently wearing a Cos dress with massive pockets. I currently have: chewing gum, my phone, a pair of garden secateurs, and a pencil on me. These have been useful about 50 million times already today.

Pockets are the BEST. One day I plan to get two kittens so I can put them in and carry them about all day.

One of the winning factors of my wedding dress was it having lovely deep hidden pockets. I didn't need to carry a bag and have to keep passing it to bms or putting it down for photos. Also why do baby and toddler clothes have pockets and most nursing clothes don't?

I have several beautiful dresses with deep pockets.. I love them ..
so convenient

@Kokeshi123 exactly. The amount of crap that ends up in my washing machine is justification in itself

I don't like pockets at all, and really hope they don't become a thing. The exception is a winter coat, I like those to have secure pockets, with at least one that zips, but I've never had any difficulty finding coats like that.

I like pockets even though I carry a bag. I get frustrated when I don't have them for temporary usage, eg when I pick up a parcel it's handy to put my car keys in my pocket, I need to have my phone in one hand and operate the keypad with the other but I don't want to put my keys away in my bag because I'll be getting straight back in the car again, or if I've used a tissue and need to throw it in the next available bin.

I think it spoils the line of the dress to have lumpy pockets stuffed with keys/phone/wallet etc! And not very secure unless they have zips. More sensible to wear jeans if you don't want to take a bag?

Some of my dresses have pockets but I only ever keep a tissue in them, anything else weighs it down and creates strange bulges!

. But then that's because DH doesn't want keys in his pockets. And neither would I! It looks awful does dh carry a bag?

@snarfblatt No it just winds me up when I see everyone swooning over them and I can't join in. Makes me wonder if everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because it's a thing. Clearly not though if the majority here love them too

I didn't know Lily out of Peter Rabbit had started a Thing.

@Cranky17 Nope. Uses mine

I love a pocket and am totally behind the theme of pockets. It's true that some clothes can look a bit bulky and weird once you fill the pockets, but most of what I wear could easily incorporate a pocket and I hate it when they don't. Esopecially for short trips like the school run where I just want to be carrying my phone and maybe a bank card stares aggressively at my banks who don't facilitate Samsung or Google Pay and have to carry poo bags for the dogs.

@sweepsweep I can see the point of them in a wedding dress - lots of fabric to hide bulges and no one wants to carry a bag with a wedding dress

I loathe pockets. They've ruined the line of many a potentially good dress. I could easily do without them in trousers and jeans too.

Maybe my problem is I'm always freezing so I always have a coat!

I have a dress with side pockets that I can fit a smartphone into on one side, keys on the other, and you cannot tell the difference between empty and full pockets.

Sometimes you just need better designed pockets.

I love pockets on skirts and dresses. When I wore suits to work I would only unpick one jacket pocket to keep my security pass in it - any more and the line of the jacket would be messed up.

Now I tend to wear skirts and dresses and a pocket is very useful as I tend to need to carry pen/pad/phone/camera with me and can't really lug a handbag around. Some designer are very smart about how and where they add them so I don't look like a heffalump.

But people must swoon over loads of things you can't always join in with @ActuallyMummy? Ugly babies, pygmy hedgehogs, designer handbags, Jude Law... I think you have a mild case of FOMO

I like posters but only if they are proper man pockets and not stupid girly sized ones.

I used to go out with DD in the carrier and a bottle of milk, a clean nappy, a bag of wipes, keys, phone, spare babygro, cash, and some sort of baby toy in my pockets. No bag to get tangled up in the carrier. Was super.

Pocketless clothing is all about silhouette, so puts showing off the figure over the practical need of the wearer. Pockets are therefore a feminist accessory.

That is the argument - decide for yourself what you think.

Pockets. Not sodding posters FFS.

I liked pockets for work. Although it was a desk based job, we had members of the public in our office so it wasn't advisable to leave money/phones/keys in our desk drawers so I liked pockets to put them in.

I love pockets, I am very happy if Meghan and the others bring them back in fashion. Many dresses look better with them I think.