Pockets in dresses?

[Tel12]

Pockets in dresses - why? They tend to be made into the seams directly in line with the hips, accentuating unnecessarily. What are people putting in there anyway? A tissue? Loose change?

I don't know anyone who wears pockets and stuffs them with things.

I mainly put my hands in them. I don't know what to do with my hands when i don't have pockets

I often have to use crutches to walk. Even cross body bags are difficult because they clang against the crutch as I move.

The seditious pamphlets just a way to make myself feel better about a practical solution to disability. Handbags are inconvenient.

I will only buy (and wear) dresses with pockets. I have small children and I do not always want to be lugging a bag around. Need to be able to put e.g. phone away super fast in case a child needs help/about to do something stupid. Keys in one pocket, phone in to other. Drives me made that you cant search for dresses with pockets online as a standard filter!

I make my own dresses so they don’t have pockets. I’ve been known to take them out of bought dresses, along with linings.

Don’t get me started on companies that put polyester linings in cotton dresses….

I’m for pockets - I love putting my hands in them and swishing around. Being able to put in a phone/key/tissue in when you’re just popping out for a quick trip is very freeing.

Although I did buy a lovely white stuff dress last week where the pockets really added bulk and looked crap. I returned it.

I have a front door that shuts you out if you're not careful. Only once did DP put out the bin in his boxers.

I have the key on me at all times and I am not carrying a bag if I'm just popping stuff in the wheely bin.

I walk around my work building a lot so pockets are definitely needed. I put my phone, ear buds, hairbands/clips etc in my pockets. Nobody carries bags around at my workplace unless they are arriving at work or leaving. I don't care about adding bulk to my hips as they are narrow compared to my waist (apple shaped), it actually is more flattering having pockets.

I bloody love a pocket. No idea why 🤷🏻‍♀️

Who the fuck wants to trundle about with a bag all the time? I can't think of anything more annoying. I've a couple of things that don't have pockets, and end up having to stick my car keys down my bra for somewhere to keep them which is a pain in the neck.

I am a fan of pockets, especially those that are of a good size (i.e. hold more than a tissue). If they can hold my phone, then that's even better! I am not too bothered about what I look like, and I have wide "childbearing hips", so accentuating them doesn't worry me!

Worse than no pockets are false pockets. Useless and bulky.

Shallow pockets - ones that mean things fall out if you sit down - are also a bugbear.

Inhaler, tissue, sometimes a key
What's not to like?

I agree! I hate pockets !

The pocket threads are always the same. Why start a new one?
Can you imagine men debating if their clothes should have pockets?

Team pockets!
I mean I have hips I don’t really care if they look a little bit wider than they actually are if it gives me the freedom to have my keys or a phone or my hands in my pockets!

I have been known to add pockets to some dresses. I even have a template I made for the ideal size I need.
I can’t envisage the making hips look wider issue some PPs mentioned.
I will say though that pockets of the size I like only work with dresses that have a lot of fabric do the overall drape and shape of the dress is maintained and the pockets are concealed.

i keep my eye drops for my dry eyes in my pockets.
pockets in dresses and the fashion of wearing trainers with dresses have revolutionised my wardrobe!

I don’t get it either, @Tel12 🤷🏼‍♀️

I love a dress with pockets but don't understand the statement about them being "directly in line with your hips" or "accentuating the hips".

Apart from the type of dress where they are on the front of the dress, all pockets I've had (that are in the seams) are quite a lot lower than my hips. They are always at the top of my legs - I guess you'd say on the outside of my thighs. Several inches from my hips.

And saying to each other they don't like the bulk and that they prefer hoiking bags around.

Pockets are great, I don't like clothes without them, as travel light.

I love dresses and skirts with pockets! I don't put anything in them except for my hands (very occasionally my car key) but I love being able to swish around, hands in pockets, hair a-flying in the wind.

I buy clothes with pockets whenever possible.

Here to talk about not being a feminist rather than pockets.
Oh dear.