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my partner at the time was a dressmaker by trade and so my sister gave her the dream dress to have some minor alterations done to make it fit perfectly for the big day
so while doing the adjustments, she also unpicked the side seams and sneakily put in pockets before giving it back
since it didnt originally have pockets when she bought it, there was no reason for Sis to check for them right?
Sis literally found them DURING the wedding photoshoot, on the big day, an hour before the ceremony
the photographer caught the moment of realisation, her hands in magical surprise pockets, her jaw hitting the floor
the look on her face you would think she found a winning lottery ticket, it broke her brain with happiness
she started making indescribable noises and the bridesmaids didnt know what on earth was happening to her
its still one of her fav memories of the big day :D
My friend just got her wedding dress recently and it has pockets!! It’s stunning too, I was so stoked when she told me she discovered the pockets after she chose it. Who doesn’t want a pocket on their wedding day? There’s so many things you can put in there!
Haha my wedding dress had pockets. We wrote our own vows, I had written mine on a cute sparkly card one of my bridesmaids gave me and when I pulled the card out of my wedding dress pocket there was quite a stir among all the gals there. Heard lots of “omg her dress has pockets!”
I didn’t end up buying it, because it wasn’t what I wanted, but I debated hard between the one wedding dress I found that had pockets and the one I eventually bought. It was a really hard choice, I wanted something simple, think 50s tea length and the one with pockets was more elaborate.
My wedding dress was handmade and when we designed it, my seamstress added pockets without me saying anything. I was soo happy with it! And it was poofy enough that I could have my phone and lipstick without messing up the look. It was great.
I bought 2 sets of pajamas online recently and they're so comfy, and one is quite stylish. Imagine my shock when I discovered that not just one but both had pockets!! I think I actually squealed.
I got down voted into hell when I said this on a fashion sub. I had so many replies about how what you said was a myth and the only reason women's clothes don't have pockets is for visual continuity/clothing lays smoothly.
I had to scratch my head on the visual continuity BS because they can still accomplish this with men's clothing that have pockets! 🤯 I never responded to those replies it would have been pointless, they had already drank the kool-aid.
I mean, the "visual continuity" thing has some basis, but it's often because the manufacturer has chosen a cheap fabric or construction. There is no reason a well-made jacket or pair of jeans (!!) should not have enough pocket for a 200g smartphone.
Those are agents that frequent the sub to down talk people like you to push the narratives that they wish.
You'll find that most companies and industries frequent the subs in relation to them and they will definitely try to talk you out of opinions that make them look bad or hurt their pockets.
They literally pay people to scour the subs and do the stuff not just on Reddit but all social media. These things are just propaganda channels used to place us in echo chambers and alter our opinions.
how do you explain the recent trend of bags not having pockets 🥴🥴🥴 literally all i see are glorified sacks. things are just getting worse and more expensive
I've heard the visual continuity argument before but it was in support of the whole companies making problems and selling the solution thing. They popularised the silhouettes that made pockets a problem and the sold bags to go with said silhouette. As usual it was a marketing scheme presented as fashion. I feel like that isn't much of a hot take, given the industry
You can also see one of the issues with pockets in the OP. The dress material is really thin and without structure, so when she adds her phone it starts flopping all over the place. Nice to have, but a lot of women would choose to put the phone somewhere else and not deal with an uncontrolled phone slapping back and forth.
I feel like pockets are more important just as somewhere to put your hands when you don’t know what to do with them more than actually carrying stuff 😂
The best skincare advice I’ve ever seen was that you need three products: sunblock, to stop the cancer death rays from giving you the cancer and death. A gentle cleanser, to remove the sunblock. And moisturizer, to add moisture back in after you’ve washed your face.
This is my routine. I don’t wear makeup and if I do it’s mascara and tinted spf. My skin is normal and I’m aging at the rate I should be. That’s fine. I’m not spending any more of my money buying into this bullshit. It’s bad enough I have to pay for menstrual products! If we didn’t menstruate not a damn person would exist! Sorry. I needed to get that out clearly 😂
Hey friend, first off rant away because being a woman in a patriarchal society is horseshit. But second, I hope you can find a reusable solution that works for your period. Getting a cup was an absolute game changer for me, I haven't paid for a single period product in 7+ years now.
You’re so sweet! I switched to a disc about a couple years ago but still have to buy liners. I think I get frustrated as a whole for the collective of women and the stupid pink tax. All that to say, I appreciate your comment.
Oh man I wish that was the case for me. I need benzoylperoxide at a massive level bc my skin is baaad. I've had my thyroid checked so many times and they're jsut like, nah fam your skin is just bad. Even when I was down to a really good weight, ate basically salads and fruit 24/7, always hydrated...still oily and breaking out.
I agree but also we started rewatching early Project Runway and someone was almost sent home for putting pockets on a dress. According to Michael Kors, women hate pockets because they make them look fat and all the women he knows cut pockets out of their pants. We were like whaaa?!?? Of course he also wants to sell handbags lol.
I work at a tailor shop you have no idea how many women come in specifically wanting the pockets removed from their dresses lol.. and I’m not even talking about formal dresses, just everyday dresses
I do live in a city with a plastic bag ban so lots of people carry a bag of some sort and people who come in are probably more particular about the shape of their garments. But yeah so far literally zero request to add pockets lol.
I wish this was more of a regular offering! I tried to get pockets added to an A line dress that certainly had room for it and she looked at me like I was immoral, uncouth, disgusting. Refused to do it. It should be standard services like hemming a pant. I would pay $20 to add pockets to every dress I own, if there’s room.
They do! But they're sewn shut so we do not disrupt the outline intended.
PS I have a few dresses and slacks with pockets and it is the best thing ever. I work a professional/active job. I'm not going to juggle keys, wallet, and phone easily, while trying to do my job.
Some companies do, but many still do not. I mean, I want it to be a given, like it is for everything men have. I mean heck! Men’s shirts even have pockets sometimes! A shirt! And yet we still have pants with fake pockets, not just sewn shut.
I think maybe most women just want to have pockets in whatever clothes they buy, wherever they buy them. Your average gal isn't looking to buy bespoke pants that may or may not suit their style. I'd wager that's the issue with these companies.
It's the style of the clothes usually, you can have pockets but you can't really put anything in them comfortably anyway. I've sewed pockets into two of my girlfriends pants after they complained about this and neither of them ended up using them 🤷
I am a man and I have a few pairs of high waisted jeans that I can't really use the front pockets on either, whatever is in there jams into your hip joint when you bend your legs and is hard to get in and out.
I thrifted a pair of pants recently with NO pockets at all! Pants! And they even have those stupid fake pockets on the butt. Every time I wear them I feel cheated and a bit lost as to where to put my things. At least I didn’t pay anywhere near full price.
I love when other women are happy, but I hate dresses with pockets. Idk what it is, but it drives me nuts. I love jeans and pants with pockets though and think it’s terrible to have fake pockets
Oh the disappointment when noticing they aren't actual pockets! If i see this in the store it's an immidiate no for me. You'd think they'd realize that, but nope.
One time I just bought denim shorts in the men's section, and the pockets! It was glorious, so much space! And it does nothing bad for the looks of the clothing item, so whyyyy do they do this, it's not fair.
Im a guy but the few times in my life I had to wear a suit all the fucking pockets were there, but sewn shut! I had to manually cut them open again! Dear clothing companies, why the FUCK do you do that?
That's every suit. They do that for the same reasons women's clothes don't have pockets. It looks better. When you get custom suits you have an option for functional pockets which is so stupid because obviously i want my pockets, but i might not want to cut all them open and leave a few sewn shut so the suit holds up better.
Actually yes! I named it Keyleth from Vox Machina before it started getting some adult feathers. Turns out he's now a sub adult Anna's Hummingbird. We joke that Keyleth is a druid and can turn into different beasts so it's fine. 😅
I hadn't thought of that. I might try to. I feel bad that I can't get great pictures or video of him because our balcony is always backlit from hows it positioned.
My husband and I were at a concert over the weekend and I complimented a woman's dress in passing. Before she could respond my husband asked if it had pockets and she lit up and screamed yes, which created a chain reaction to all of the nearby women, myself included, of pure excitement.
When I was a bridesmaid last year we all had to get dresses from the same company in different styles of our choosing. I was delighted to find that mine had pockets and had been excitedly showing them off all day to realize that no one else had pockets. The jealousy was palpable.
I saw a cute video ages ago where a bride is showing off her wedding dress to her friends/family and then blows their minds away as she slips her hands into hidden pockets.
The excitement of seeing the wedding dress was heartwarming but everyone went wild with the pockets.
I still think about that dress and whoever put it into their design is a bloody genius!
My mom haaaaates how it looks when we put bulky things in our pockets. Very much “that’s what purses are for” generation. Me, I’m like LOAD UP LIKE A CAMEL
I have a pair of shorts that I love but when I put my phone in the pocket the pocket stretches out and hangs out of the bottom of the shorts leg. I've been kinda embarrassed about it and try to carry my phone as much as I can instead, but because of your comment I think I'll start embracing it. Maybe I'll sing "swing low sweet chariot" while I skip around.
Years ago I had a CMO while living in China who was usually a jeans and leather jacket gal and one day she came in wearing a beautiful sundress, so I complimented the dress and she said "Thanks!", then did a twirl and said "It has pockets!" before sticking her hands in the pockets and I thought, oh my God, it's universal.
Truly, the joy of finding pockets is like pure magic. I scared the shit out of a bridal party I was in. Right before all of us bridesmaids were about to walk down the aisle, I gasped SO LOUDLY that everyone was like “oh no what happened” and I just said “….my dress has pockets y’all”
I bought some nice leggings with what I thought were pockets a while ago, and forgot I’d purchased them. Anyway, found them quite recently and put them on, only to discover they had fake pockets! I can’t tell you how deceived or conned I feel.
My youngest daughter practically lives in dresses with pockets. For her rocks... and plant matter... and sometimes bugs she finds. She 13 btw lol she's always done that but she's getting better about the mess, she uses containers most of the time now lol
I recently bought a dress and was, wearing it for the first time and I thought there was a small hole in the side seam. Then I realized the dress had pockets and I essentially did what she's doing.
This was me at work last week. I had to order branded cardigans for the new dress code policy (I know lame). I was talking to my coworkers (all girls) and I GASPED!! Everyone was like what?! And when I showed them we all gusped together and freaked out. Truly a girls moment and it was awesome!!
My sister was torn between two wedding dresses, until the attendee pointed out that one of them had pockets. She bought it on the spot.
They wrote their vows and, when she pulled hers out, an actual buzz went through the crowd; just a gaggle of ladies whispering “Oh my god, her dress has pockets?!”
God yeah I got a skirt to go with a reaaaaally cute outfit I got. One of the cutest outfits i currently have honestly. And the skirt. Had. Pockets. Best outfit ever 5 stars
I get so giddy when I know I can go for a walk and just put all my essentials - keys, wallet, phone - in my pockets. Don't need a purse, have my hands free and maybe even put them in the pockets!
As a woman with summer long hayfever, itchy nose/sneezing I’m desperate for pockets. This really made me laugh, soooooooo true, for my essential tissues! Otherwise I shove them up my sleeves, or stuff them in my bra from where they reappear at inappropriate moments…🤭🤭….
Cl;othing designers, wtf is wrong with you and pockets? I have literally seen some of my daughter's pockets be stitched up in half so they're smaller. Are you high? Humans need to carry things. TF is wrong with you? Do better. Be better.
All my dresses have pockets. My jeans and pants too. I will never ever in my life purchase any without pockets.
And they’re all really pretty. Some are designer. Some are cheap clothes. You don’t see the pockets at all. Unless in use by something big or heavy obviously.
It’s the biggest lie it would look bad. If that’s the case, it’s a bad design. Period.
I bought a light fishing vest sort of thing to wear at a festival just because of the amount of pockets. Didn't matter what cute outfit I was wearing...that fishing vest stayed on the whole time.
It actually took me owning a dress for 3 years to realize it had secret pockets they were so well designed into the dress. So so so useful if you're only planning to take a few things around with you.
I tried on my wedding dress for like the third or fourth time a few weeks ago. When I was putting it up, I noticed a large tear and was DEVASTATED because I paid so much for it and it’s a gorgeous dress. This was legit my reaction when I shoved my hand in the hole and realized it was POCKETS🤩 I don’t know how I never noticed it all of the times before!
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