Children’s clothes is no longer out of bag.
Women have been forced to purchase handbags to store their important items while running errands or out on the city, whereas men you typically carry their keys, budget, and phone inside their clothing.
But that is changing.
Both high-fashion companies and children’s workwear companies are creating clothes for the fairer sex that has profound hands.
Sali Christeson, a corporate lender in Chicago, founded Argent, a company that keeps practical business dress at the vanguard of its objective.
The white collar worker founded the business after becoming enraged by the “maddening have” of pants in women’s clothing, which made them have to run up to their tables to retrieve their purses before lunch breaks.
” Hands have become the hidden power in our series”, she told the Wall Street Journal, as more women realize that what a woman wants — and needs — is more accumulating place in clothes.
” Pants inequality is a centuries- ancient form of gender bias”, Aditi Sinha, the inc- chairman of Seattle- based women’s workwear brand Point of View, told Seattle Refined.
” Only 5 % of women’s pockets can fit a smartphone, compared to 85 % of men’s pockets. On average, women’s pockets are 48 % shorter and 6.5 % narrower than men’s pockets”.
The Pacific Northwest model is also working to address the prevalence of pocketless clothes by reinventing office attire for modern ladies, who Sinha said deserve to be free of “unnecessary back and back pain” that comes with big handbags.
Los Angeles designer and magazine publisher Laurel Pantin said,” It’s an notion that people would prefer to have a simplified appearance over something useful and practical,” calling pocketless clothing” only cruel.”
With the proliferation of” corpcore” pieces with deeper pockets that are presented on runways, it seems that the high fashion sector is starting to play catch up.
Although some names continue to make pants with faux hands (arguably the most agonizing discovery when trying on a pair of jeans ) and back pockets that can hardly meet the growing smartphones these days.
At the Cannes Film Festival last month, Hunter Scafer posed for the red carpet photographers while wearing a periwinkle Armani Privé gown with pockets in the skirt, and Blake Lively was shocked to discover her Chanel floral two-piece suit had pockets. She then promptly dumped her purse in response.
According to Celenie Seidel, senior editor at Farfetch,” European fashion houses, like Dries Van Noten and Miu Miu, are not designers that rob a woman of functionality.” Saint Laurent also presented women’s workwear on both the brand’s fall/winter and spring 2024 runways, highlighting the prominence of pockets in the garments.
Meanwhile, Courrèges debuted a new collection with pockets at the forefront. The pockets on the front of the pants were a cheeky addition to the line’s eccentric design, and they were made in more than one way for women’s enjoyment.
However, the demand for pockets does not only exist for storage.
” When you’re in a new or uncomfortable situation”, M. M. LaFleur’s Shelby Goldfaden told the Journal, “having a place to put your hands can be grounding”.
The battle for pocket real estate dates back generations, according to Hannah Carlson, the author of” Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close”. Menswear has long been made with practicality in mind, but women’s daily responsibilities, which were assumed to be women’s responsibility to care for their homes and children, were negated by the need for clothing storage.
In 1899, reports the Journal, activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton lamented the lack of pockets in womenswear, penning an essay in favor of fashion equality. A Pittsburgh Post- Gazette column,” A Plea for Pockets”, was published mere years later, which likened men to kangaroos because to their pocket- containing clothing.
” Woman”, it read, per the Journal, “has not so much as a little pocket in which to bestow her kerchief”.
Even in the 20th century, Carlson, a Rhode Island School of Design professor, told the outlet,” there was this expectation that women’s clothes are n’t made for pockets”.
Each digit can precariously balance or grip a necessary item due to the lack of pockets that forced women to develop superhuman finger strength.
One woman carries her keys from a finger while juggling a smartphone and a book in the same hand, while another carries two bottles by the neck with ease in one hand and, in the other, totes bagged lettuce, a box of basil, a jar of pesto, and fresh mozzarella. This is demonstrated by the many ways that women produce such an exceptionally agile power.
” Would n’t we really like to see more inside breast pockets in a jacket though”? Carlson succinctly described the desire of every woman, per The Guardian. ” Would n’t it make life easier”?