It’s just a handy place to put my phone down for a second. Or stash a pen or a credit card.

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    Working in the service industry, I have refused boob-money before. It’s very gross to keep something there that you intend to hand other people.

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      Agreed! I don’t put bills there for that reason. I used to be the finance director for a large community event, very cash dependant. And we definitely got nasty sweaty boob money, money soaked in beer, you name it. The cash counting machines had trouble with it, so a lot had to be hand counted. Handling so much cash with mystery wetness was one of the less pleasant aspects of the job.

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    Over 10 years ago I remember watching this fashion series on TV, a kind of reality TV type thing you’d watch if there was nothing better to do. There was this… very old French woman as part of the main host. Apparently she was some sort of fashion design bigwig in Paris. But she said something like:

    “Women should never have pockets. Clothes should accentuate the most powerful thing we have, which is the feminine form. Pockets ruin this. To be womanly is to carry a handbag.”

    I remember thinking to myself what a load of pretentious bullshit fashion must be.

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      Also ridiculous to think no one can come up with pockets that are flattering. Get creative old French lady

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      Not to mention that she’s also meaning that all women should only care about looking beautiful and attractive, fuck practicality

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    One of my school friends made some extra money during 6th form by offering to sew new, bigger pockets in various girls clothing. On average she did about 5 pairs of jeans a week at about £15 per pair. She went on to do fashion design at uni and now runs her own small business and despite branching out to do so much more stuff one of the services she kept doing was pocket replacements and extensions.

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    Women, buy cargo pants if you need pockets. Tell the haters to buy you whatever they’d rather see you in or fuck off

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    It’s funny, my wife and 4 year old daughter both have the same giddy reaction to seeing pockets on a super cute dress hahaha

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    My wife and I have a theory that the patriarchy removed useful pockets so women need to buy an external pocket in the form of purses.

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      That doesn’t require the patriarchy, just the fashion industry in general trying to sell as much as possible. Adding an entirely different and otherwise unnecessary article of clothing is a brilliant idea honestly.

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        My wife routinely makes me remove car keys or other bulkier things from my pocket because they “make me look bigger”.

        I love my wife dearly I really do. But she deserved having to put things in her bra. Maybe I should start putting my car keys in the front of my underwear. As a fashion statement.

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      There used to be pockets on women’s clothes - or more accurately, you tied them on yourself as they came separately from the clothes - but they fell out of fashion as handbags became the fashion statement that said: look - I’m not poor enough to have to have pockets.

      Very dumb, but it is what it is.

      What baffles me now is that pockets on women’s clothes haven’t made a comeback yet. How asleep at the wheel are fashion designers?

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        I suspect that the problem is that while people want big pockets, small pocket clothes look better. If there was a real demand for big pockets, there would be money to make in selling those, and big pocket brands would dominate.

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          If there was a real demand for big pockets, there would be money to make in selling those, and big pocket brands would dominate.

          I think you might be giving a bit too much credit to the industry here.

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    How did you just realise this? I would’ve thought lack of pockets would be the sole reason you would use your bra.

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      I thought breast support was the reason they use a bra.

      Lack of pockets would be the sole reason if I used a bra.

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        That’s one of the reasons they use a bra in general (the other one is nipple masking, that’s why even women with small breasts that don’t need any support wear them). Lack of pockets is the reason they “carry things in their bra”.

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    Really? I was taught to because if someone mugs me for money it becomes a felony instead of misdemeanor pickpocketing. I was pickpocketed once from a purse and never again, goes in the bra every time.

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    Now think how flat chested women feel, even the bra is non functional as pocket

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    This is funny to me. I’m a guy, but I’ve known this since I was in highschool and I noticed my lady friends doing it.

    The worst was once I saw someone drop change coins down there lol