A brief rant:

[bacony]

I should very much like to punish whichever idiot in the fashion industry decided that my ladies' summer shorts would have no functioning pockets in them whatever, while my 8 month old daughter's summer shorts would have four. I can't carry so much as a folded banknote or a back-door key out with me without toting an accursed handbag (or more

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[sarahlascelles]

The lack of pockets in your clothes doesnt entirely surprise me, women's clothes often share that lack. Why Fran gets pockets is a mystery to me.

[bacony]

I know! All she keeps in there are earwigs and pieces of half-chewed breadstick! It also annoys me how many dungarees for babies feature a large pocket right at the front where the milk-dribble is. Almost as though they were designed by someone who had never picked up a baby and noticed that they leak at the front.

[sarahlascelles]

Well fashion designers probably dont pick babies up, precisely because they do leak :-)

[sheyna]

Hear hear! For Eleanor I can understand, she now uses her own tissues and wants toys in pockets, but all Ben does is drool and hide food in them...

And I hate clothes without pockets. I made my own larp trousers so I could have them, I rarely wear skirts, and even some hipsters are out as their pockets barely hold a finger, let alone something you want to stay *in* the pocket...

I find Ben's Black Bag of Doom has nice pouches for wallet and stuff if I'm lacking pockets for whatever reason, and most people baulk from sticking stealing fingers in a baby's nappy bag...

[foul_temptress]

My sister had this conversation with me a few weeks ago when she saw her 6 month old had three pockets!! Could you add pockets to existing dresses? Customisation is very big

[phyrbyrd]

Oh, but we wouldn't want the pockets to spoil the line of the clothing, would we? Then women might show (horror of horrors) imperfections in their outlines, and we can't have that.
This form over function thing has been depressing me for years, although in my case it's had more to do with my total inability to find a pair of summer shoes that doesn't chafe, rub or press uncomfortably somewhere on my foot.

[bacony]

I swear by the comfy old birkenstock. It does make you look like an angry feminist, but I am an angry feminist, so that's fine :)