{"id":1870,"date":"2016-05-01T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:28:58","slug":"dresses-without-pockets-women-sexism-fashion-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Do With Dresses Without Pockets?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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ungover and drunk on the naive optimism that usually engulfs everyone on the first day of every new year, my roommate and I decided to kickstart <\/span>2018<\/span><\/a> by going for a lavish Monday buffet. <\/span>\n\nAccompanied by a couple more friends, and a newfound vigour for daytime overdressing, we arrived at the restaurant with exuberant stomachs. Minutes became hours as we dug in with an urgency best reserved for people forced to subscribe to the keto way of life. Conversation went from <\/span>new year resolutions<\/span><\/a> to new phones and then to a piece of startling advice: \u201cDon\u2019t buy any phone that you won\u2019t be able to fit in your pocket.\u201d<\/span>\n\nPockets! When was the last time you wore something with real, functional pockets? Not the pretend pockets Forever21 and H&M seem to peddle, designed to make you believe that you can actually just drop in your keys and step out for the night? You know, like an average dude? <\/span>\n\n\u201cDresses with pockets\u201d is a massive millennial concern – although older generations should get behind this cause too. It drove the woman-led mass <\/span>iPhone 6 Plus<\/span><\/a> boycott on social media two years ago. After the launch of the phone, women were up in arms advising their peers to not buy the iPhone 6 Plus, because at 5.5 inches, the phone was simply \u201cunpocketable\u201d. In a <\/span>Bustle<\/span><\/a> piece, Abby Johnson succinctly posited two solutions that could favour women: \u201c<\/span>Bigger pockets for jeans. Or smaller phones. What\u2019ll it be, world?\u201d<\/span>\n\n

When was the last time you wore something with real, functional pockets?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nA quick search of the <\/span>#WeWantPockets <\/span><\/a>hashtag on Twitter will lay bare the unanimous desire of women across the world to wear anything with the added comfort of a pocket; a place to house our keys, lip gloss, or just snugly fit in when we have no idea what do with our hands. <\/span>\n\nWhy, then, haven\u2019t designers, clothing stores and runways taken stock of this grave situation yet? Why are our clothes still unpocketable?<\/span>\n\nIt might seem like a wholly trivial issue to go after, especially as we continue to deal with things like <\/span>workplace sexual harassment<\/span><\/a> and wage-gap issues, but I will have you know that historically, women being deprived of pockets is rooted in <\/span>abject sexism<\/span><\/a>. While pockets for men started appearing in the late 1600s, women had to depend on <\/span>makeshift purses <\/span><\/a>to carry their belongings, severely limiting their access to money and property. <\/span>\n\n

Depriving us of pockets is akin to denying us the simple pleasure of just having a fuss-free evening out.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nToday, years later, men still get to waltz around life with comfortable, fuss-free clothing, without a thought about whole #WeWantPockets fuss. At the buffet table, a male friend first seemed perplexed, and then scoffed at our labelling the absence of pockets as a fashion conspiracy. According to him, it was a trivial issue. Besides, he asked while his hands rested comfortably inside the large pockets of his trousers, \u201cCouldn\u2019t women just carry purses?\u201d<\/span>\n\nWe do, but why do we need to? Depriving us of pockets is akin to denying us the simple pleasure of just having a fuss-free evening out. It means a lifetime of opening doors awkwardly. But most importantly, the absence of pockets means that all that a dress needs to win us over is pockets. At this point, we\u2019re willing to settle for gunny sacks so long as they have a small compartment. <\/span>\n\nIf that isn\u2019t a giant fashion conspiracy, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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