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 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.

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.

Oh god, looked like it didn't post and clearly it did

Some of my vintage dresses have pockets. An Oliver Bonas dress of mine and 2 &otherstories dresses of mine have them. If I’m at work it’s tissue, phone, glasses in pockets. But I don’t need to have them in dresses.

The seditious pamphlets is a reference to this poem:

Dangerous Coats by Sharon Owens
Someone clever once said
Women were not allowed pockets
In case they carried leaflets
To spread sedition
Which means unrest
To you & me
A grandiose word
For commonsense
Fairness
Kindness
Equality
So ladies, start sewing
Dangerous coats
Made of pockets & sedition

For the feminists among us:

And here's a satirical poem from 1915:

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
Alice Duer Miller
1874 –1942

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.

1. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.

1. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

1. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burden of pockets.

1. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.

1. Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward woman, if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.

1. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.

1. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.