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Pockets in dresses?

156 replies

Tel12 · 02/06/2026 18:19

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?

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Ihearthunderinthedistance · 05/06/2026 03:27

Pockets forever! I bloody love them.
Although tbf I haven’t worn a dress for about 15 years, but I may wear a tunic type top and I love dungarees with an unholy passion. I like flat patch front pockets, and would agree that ones sewn into the side seams are not particularly flattering to my bounteous hips which is why I avoid them. I dislike carrying a handbag as it fills up with crap and generally just cart my phone and a lip balm around.
#pocketsforever

TheJuicyLucy · 05/06/2026 03:45

I wouldn't want a dress or skirt without any pockets, but then, I hardly ever wear skirts.And life is really too short to worry about the appearance of my hips, at which nobody is likely to be looking anyway.

ShowOfHands · 05/06/2026 03:54

If people don't like seditious pamphlets as an argument, how about emergency sanitary protection/drugs? As a teacher who floods debilitatingly and needs to sidle out the room right now, pockets save my life and my dignity. Don't much care if people can see I have hips tbh.

Fiddlesticks1 · 05/06/2026 06:59

Love dresses with pockets.

Ibi · 05/06/2026 07:23

I’ve not noticed any issue with pockets looking unflattering at the hip - maybe you just need to size up so they don’t pull.

I find them invaluable when I’m at work. I don't want to take a bag when popping out for lunch. It’s awkward enough carrying my laptop and coffee to a meeting room without trying to balance my phone on top too.

Great for going to the shops. Great for a day out (my husband tends to take a rucksack for the kid’s stuff, but I like to have my phone handy for the tube and means I don’t have to take a bag just to put my phone in).

neilisbangingoutthetunes · 05/06/2026 07:47

I find pockets useful for all the reasons mentioned upthread. However, I agree that sometimes they can - to me - ruin the line of a dress. I know the prevailing view on S&B is that wanting to feel like your clothes flatter your body/figure rather than just be viewed as objets d'art themselves is deeply unsophisticated and vulgar, but I have wide hips already - if I find a dress with pockets that make them look even more bulky, I'm going to look like a weeble.

I also find the 'I can haz pockets? XD' discourse around them very annoying. It's a pocket. That's all.

Bjorkdidit · 05/06/2026 07:54

BobbieTables · 04/06/2026 23:25

I won't buy a dress without pockets. Are you really carrying a bag around with you everywhere? Even in the house? Where does your phone go? What about if you eat something and have a wrapper to put in the bin later? Where do your hands go?
I can't fathom not wanting pockets. My favourite item of clothing is a coat with pockets big enough for a novel one side and over ear headphones on the other.

Don't be daft. Why do you need to carry a bag round the house? You leave your phone wherever. You put the wrapper in the bin.

Pockets are useful when at work, or out and about although unless you're buying more expensive clothes than standard high street, excluding useful pockets would mean you'd never buy anything at all.

Coats often do have better pockets, but that's because my two main coats are a winter and a summer hiking waterproof and the winter version (Didriksons) is pockets galore, meaning I can take a map, water bottle, keys, phone and still have somewhere to put a hat and gloves if I take them off and my hands if I so wish.

But I don't necessarily find pockets more convenient. Every time I watch DP go in and out of the house, loading and unloading his pockets with all his bits and pieces, I think who CBA with all that? I just pick my bag up and put it down again.

Plus I'm here sitting at a desk and even if my trousers did have useful pockets, I couldn't put my phone in it because it would dig into my hip or feel like it was straining the phone at the back. I've seen the state of DPs passport because he carries it around in his pocket when travelling, he's lucky if it will last until it expires before it's refused due to being all bent and creased.

Kinfluencer · 05/06/2026 08:35

Undecidedcontact · 02/06/2026 18:29

This accurately sums up how I feel/react when I realise my dress has pockets....

https://youtube.com/shorts/J4ouv9YVXOo?si=xjJk2K9f6GTHgs3V

Omg Yes!!!!
Love a pocket!

All this waaa waaa my hips blah blah
Who gives a fuck!?
Who do you think is staring at your hips?
Hips are great, Ive got a cracking set
Arent we over conforming our perfectly normal healthy bodies to made up standards as too big or too small 🙄
I dont buy things without pockets, my hands to down to find them and they arent there Sad

StarlightLady · 05/06/2026 09:04

Most pockets in summer dresses are too flimsy to contain anything more than a tissue or a lipstick.

PhaedraTwo · 05/06/2026 09:04

although unless you're buying more expensive clothes than standard high street, excluding useful pockets would mean you'd never buy anything at all.

Not sure I follow this. Are you saying more expensive non standard high street likely won't have pockets? The vast majority of my dresses are not standard high street and almost all have pockets.

Bjorkdidit · 05/06/2026 09:10

The vast majority of my dresses are not standard high street and almost all have pockets

This is what I'm saying. Lots of people are saying 'I won't buy it if it doesn't have pockets'. But if you shop in normal high street shops, eg M&S, Next, the clothes do not have pockets, or they're too small. So you'd never buy anything.

People are linking to expensive clothes that are only available online and most people don't buy due to cost, eg Boden.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/06/2026 09:14

I love pockets. I most often put my glasses in mine. But a tissue or my AirPod case is often in there too.

I wish women’s coats and jackets would have an inside pocket like men’s do. So handy for a a phone / ticket.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/06/2026 09:21

Bjorkdidit · 05/06/2026 09:10

The vast majority of my dresses are not standard high street and almost all have pockets

This is what I'm saying. Lots of people are saying 'I won't buy it if it doesn't have pockets'. But if you shop in normal high street shops, eg M&S, Next, the clothes do not have pockets, or they're too small. So you'd never buy anything.

People are linking to expensive clothes that are only available online and most people don't buy due to cost, eg Boden.

I’ve just got some dresses I like a lot for £19.99 from Mountain Warehouse which have pockets.

tengreencats · 05/06/2026 13:22

I can't believe the actual amount of stuff people claim to put in pockets !

AsparagusSeason · 05/06/2026 13:25

I live a dress with pockets, they look good when posing 😂 They are not for storage, imo.

Conversely, a pocket on a t-shirt or a shirt will stop me from buying.

HenriettaHenhouse · 05/06/2026 13:55

OhThePotential · 04/06/2026 23:19

Trying to police how someone contributes to an internet forum.

Oh dear.

Not policing, just observing.
Obviously non feminists don't know the difference.

CoffeeAndHobnobs · 06/06/2026 14:43

AsparagusSeason · 05/06/2026 13:25

I live a dress with pockets, they look good when posing 😂 They are not for storage, imo.

Conversely, a pocket on a t-shirt or a shirt will stop me from buying.

I quite like a t shirt with a decorative pocket/s, plain ones I'm not so keen on for some reason, might looks better on others.

Darklane · 06/06/2026 16:05

I love pockets in dresses or skirts.
They don’t bulge the hips on me. Being 4’10” they tend to sit halfway down my thigh which can cause a bit of stooping if you want to put your hands in them though 😂

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 06/06/2026 16:32

FourForksSake · 02/06/2026 18:35

Even better are deep pockets that actually fit a phone or whatever without fear of the item falling out.

Pockets WITH ZIPS!

I hate the feeling of handbags, I hate having a hand or arm occupied or having a cross-body thing swinging around in front of me whenever I bend over.

More good, useable, deep pockets, with zips. Dammit.

Spargaszezon · 06/06/2026 16:42

A handbag is such an inconvenience, I want pockets on dresses/pjs, gym shorts/leggings etc.

BobbieTables · 07/06/2026 17:16

Bjorkdidit · 05/06/2026 07:54

Don't be daft. Why do you need to carry a bag round the house? You leave your phone wherever. You put the wrapper in the bin.

Pockets are useful when at work, or out and about although unless you're buying more expensive clothes than standard high street, excluding useful pockets would mean you'd never buy anything at all.

Coats often do have better pockets, but that's because my two main coats are a winter and a summer hiking waterproof and the winter version (Didriksons) is pockets galore, meaning I can take a map, water bottle, keys, phone and still have somewhere to put a hat and gloves if I take them off and my hands if I so wish.

But I don't necessarily find pockets more convenient. Every time I watch DP go in and out of the house, loading and unloading his pockets with all his bits and pieces, I think who CBA with all that? I just pick my bag up and put it down again.

Plus I'm here sitting at a desk and even if my trousers did have useful pockets, I couldn't put my phone in it because it would dig into my hip or feel like it was straining the phone at the back. I've seen the state of DPs passport because he carries it around in his pocket when travelling, he's lucky if it will last until it expires before it's refused due to being all bent and creased.

I'll be as daft as I like, thank you!
I'd loose my phone if I left it wherever around the house and I'm always needing it for the bloody two factor authentication and other such bollocks.
What did Bjork do?

bumptybum · 08/06/2026 19:33

Ohthatsabitshit · 02/06/2026 18:26

Some of us are less worried about “looking like we have something in our pockets” than others? I mean honestly if you can’t imagine why someone would need to be able to move around without a handbag I suspect you live in a bizarrely niche world of the limply feminine.

But I can move way better with a bag across me than my dresses swinging weirdly with weighted pockets. And worrying that things will fall out.

if I was wearing something like a relatively rigid denim dress, maybe I could put things in my pockets but I wouldn’t wear a weirdly thick denim dress. If I’m wearing any kind of dress with any kind of drape or flow, then things in the pockets as heavy as phones and power banks are just going to swing out and fall out
maybe you move more delicately than I do.

Bjorkdidit · 09/06/2026 04:37

tengreencats · 05/06/2026 13:22

I can't believe the actual amount of stuff people claim to put in pockets !

I know, there's a dress linked upthread where you'd look like a human version of the tray game if you had all the things like phone, keys, tissues, lipstick etc etc in the pockets while wearing it.

Bjorkdidit · 09/06/2026 04:37

tengreencats · 05/06/2026 13:22

I can't believe the actual amount of stuff people claim to put in pockets !

I know, there's a dress linked upthread where you'd look like a human version of the tray game if you had all the things like phone, keys, tissues, lipstick etc etc in the pockets while wearing it.

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