Women's Pockets Weren't Always a Complete Disgrace | A Brief History: England, 15th c - 21st c

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SOURCES:
--Braun, Melanie; Costigliolo, Luca; North, Susan; Thornton, Claire; Tiramani, Jenny. '17th Century Men's Dress Patterns: 1600-1630'. 2016. Thames & Hudson, London. Print.
--Burman, Barbara and Fennetaux, Ariane. "The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives." 2019, Yale University Press. Print.
--Maître du cardinal de Bourbon. "Vie et miracles de monseigneur saint Louis ou Livre des faits de monseigneur saint Louis". 1480 - 1488. BnF Gallica, gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv... Le Livre.shift
--Tiramani, Jenny; Costigliolo, Luca; Passot, Sébastien; Lucas, Armelle; Pietsch, Johannes. "Patterns of Fashion 5: The content, cut, construction and context of bodies, stays, hoops and rumps c. 1595 - 1795". London, 2018. Print.
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0:00 Introduction
1:10 The (very very slow) Development of Pockets
3:16 The Infinite Styles and Shapes of the Tie-On Pocket
4:49 A Deduction Exercise: How Pockets Reveal People
6:44 The Golden Age of Pocketry: 18th Century Pocket Hoops
8:43 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (Regency Edition)
10:17 Sewn-in Pockets and the Rise of Pocket Inequality
13:47 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (21st Century Edition).
16:17 A Very Special Giveaway From Yale University Press :)

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@TheNerdyArcher 3 года назад

To the historical ladies carrying live chickens in their pockets: majestic.True icons.

@ms_it_is 3 года назад

Feeling cute, might carry sum chicken in my skirt later

@karenrowell2180 3 года назад

One wonders why one had to carry your chicken around.

@elfieblue3175 3 года назад

@@karenrowell2180 If you lived in a congregate setting, your chicken could be stolen and eaten. Of course you kept your friends close and your chickens closer.

@ms_it_is 3 года назад

@@karenrowell2180 if I wanna carry a chicken in my lower body garments, I'm gonna carry a chicken in my lower body garments. The fact that I actually own several chickens should concern my surroundings

@evasenergymastery5552 3 года назад

@@ms_it_is Yaas, carry sum chicken for the rest of us! :D

@EmpressCosplay 3 года назад

I'll never forget my friend in a Rococo dress pulling out an entire bottle of wine out of their pocket hoops.

@ruthanneparkes1464 3 года назад

The imagery of this is majestic

@EmpressCosplay 3 года назад

@@ruthanneparkes1464 it was at a pirate event and gosh. Beautiful.

@jojannekevisscher9923 3 года назад

This made me shed a tear. Beautiful.

@commodorezelda 3 года назад

Once at a renaissance festival, while in line for the privies a woman pulled a box of wine out from under her dress and offered some to my friend.

@stephaniecowans3646 3 года назад

I'd much rather carry a bottle of wine than a live chicken.

@mrspaigebaldwin 3 года назад

Sitting in a wedding ceremony a little over a year ago I will never forget the collective gasp that coursed through the women in the audience when the bride reached in a pocket IN HER WEDDING GOWN to pull out items such as a quill pen and box with the groom's ring. We all wanted a do-over for our own gowns.

@esteraglopina7858 Год назад

im gonna write the idea down cuz pockets in a wedding gown? thats a need.

@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 3 месяца назад

EPIC

@banjoele4562 2 года назад

My three year old daughter has become very insistent on pockets these days. She experienced her first fake pocket. The betrayel was palpable.

@lindabeauchamp4596 Год назад

🤣

@r-pupz7032 Год назад

Oh my gosh I feel her pain, betrayal is the right word... Maybe this will drive her to sew her own clothes one day 🥰

@storytellingwithesther2520 Год назад

I can remember my first run-in with a fake pocket. I liked to collect rocks as a child, and upon discovering I had nowhere to keep them, I certainly felt betrayed (among other things).

@Tailzy26 Год назад

oh god they're going after the kids clothes now!? What in the absolute fuck!

@storytellingwithesther2520 Год назад

@@Tailzy26 That was over a decade ago. We must do something to stop this madness.

@alenemarie1726 3 года назад

The fact that that women were so passionate about pockets throughout history brings me immense joy.

@k_a_y_l_e_e 3 года назад

a generational rage i'm proud to continue to fight for.

@ImaginaryMdA 3 года назад

What does the knowledge that the battle was ultimately lost do for you?

@changeshifter4852 3 года назад

@@k_a_y_l_e_e Mom was a seamstress and added pockets to clothes. She taught me when I was about 12. I have 3 nieces and will pass the skill on :)

@k_a_y_l_e_e 3 года назад

@@changeshifter4852 i appreciate this energy

@claireaudientttttt 3 года назад

Moi aussi! 🙏

@teresas.3979 3 года назад

My daughter complained her clothes don't have pockets at age four. This was after she put a rock in her ear, because she didn't have any pockets, to save for later. We made sure she had pockets after that. Even in her cosplay.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

When one's clothes don't even have pockets large enough to fit a pebble that would fit in a four-year-old's ear, that is indeed a problem.

@esm1817 3 года назад

Oh crap! When I was a kid I put beans up my nose, but I am pretty sure that's just because people told me not to and I was curious. The lack of pockets is a much better reason, I guess!

@questgivercyradis8462 3 года назад

As a geologist who likes cosplay.... I love your daughter. May she have many pockets for all the rocks she wants!

@teresas.3979 3 года назад

@@questgivercyradis8462 she was saving it to show me because of my rock collection. I still have it... ssshhh don't tell her.

@fishinwidow35 3 года назад

I have a friend who spends a considerable amount of time in the woods or on a creekbank and she had (eek) a fanny pack to put her precious finds in. I made her an tie on pocket and embroidered a faerie under a mushroom on it. Because? She definitely reminds me of a woods nymph. She uses it which makes me very happy.

@lauralee9992 3 года назад

I saw a picture today of a female celebrity holding a phone, keys, coffee, wallet and probably something else in her hand which was bent to accommodate this amount of stuff with the caption “this is what decades of pocket abuse has done to women, we’ve evolved this level of dexterity”

@jjQlLlLq 3 года назад

I'm simultaneously 😂ing and 😭ing at this imagery Oh how we've evolved as a species

@ussinussinongawd516 2 года назад

nah this is what Starbucks does to you

@CL-je6sv 2 года назад

@@ussinussinongawd516 Starbucks singlehandedly sews women's pockets shut?

@niagrace16 Год назад

Dakota Johnson, yeah.

@lexi_barely_lives Год назад

Yes! Every morning I walk to my car with : My lunch bag looped around my arm, My giant water jug hanging from my hand My coffee cup in palm Phone held by one finger against the coffee cup Keys looped around another finger And sunglasses held by another finger XD This morning I even had a bagel balanced on top of the coffee cup 😬

@Rohansleepover 3 года назад

I will NEVER forget Michael Kors telling a Project Runway contestant off for daring to have pockets in the pants they made and then adding "All the women I know cut off the pockets" It never fails to make me seethe with rage

@NoraDiniro1of7 3 года назад

Who are these strange women he claims to know? I can't imagine anyone actively depriving themselves of pockets...

@katarh 3 года назад

@@NoraDiniro1of7 I met exactly one, once before. She was naturally very petite and liked tight fitting clothing. But that's it. Exactly one, ever, in my entire many decades here on this Earth.

@jeanf6295 2 года назад

@@NoraDiniro1of7 models probably ?

@multitudeofvoices 2 года назад

And this is the same man who criticized a female designer for not putting pockets in men's clothing.

@LH-ro2ot 2 года назад

I want to buy women's clothes designed by women and not by men who design clothes for models that look like teenage boys 😂

@emilyhetchler4510 3 года назад

If I can't fit a pair of sewing shears, a book, a water bottle, a journal, a bag of Doritos, and a live chicken in my pockets then WHAT is the POINT

@bernadettebanner 3 года назад

Essentials 😎

@alexisventura7191 3 года назад

@@bernadettebanner exactly

@thoughtengine 3 года назад

You'll get yourself arrested, loading up like that.

@codename495 3 года назад

Dead chickens do not belong in pockets, it’s messy, leaves an odor and generally causes staining... I’ve heard.

@purpleongray1615 3 года назад

@@codename495 That is why you put them alive.

@stupidblueb3rry 3 года назад

Bernadette: "Do with information what you will" Me: Grabs pitchfork

@11thShadowDragon 3 года назад

I'll get some sewing needle swords to arm our allies with

@laurahill9643 3 года назад

I need to find some good, sturdy hatpins.

@LillibitOfHere 3 года назад

Sew pockets into your pants!

@alexanderohlund7552 3 года назад

Bernadette: history of pockets while making a plae for pockets reformation. Me: agreeing with her.

@CavegirlMelanieHobby 3 года назад

Hahahaha

@gwenc7805 3 года назад

I once went with a friend to her wedding dress fitting. I complemented one of the dresses as being very sleek, and the designer pretty much jumped out from behind her skirt and say: "AND IT HAS POCKETS!" I don't know why a wedding dress need pockets (as I hadn't worn one myself) but I sure love that she added them

@sirmoonslosthismind 2 года назад

presumably the same reason any garment needs pockets. she had a large keyring and a wallet in one, and a cell phone (on silent during the ceremony, of course) in the other.

@westwardsongs 2 года назад

Somewhere to keep the vows. I was maid of honor at my friend's wedding and I had to hold her personalized wedding vows-except there was no holding on my part, as they were tucked into the bosom of my dress...because I didn't have pockets either 🤦‍♀️

@lsamoa 2 года назад

"It has pockets" is by far my favourite sentence in the English language

@RedAgent14 2 года назад

This made me think of that one episode of Doctor Who where Donna has to explain to the Doctor that "No, I don't have my mobile phone, I'm in my wedding dress, *there are no pockets.*"

@martina21953 Год назад

Pockets on (in?) wedding dresses is a popular thing nowadays. I think a lot of people don't know what to do with their hands.

@sonja5058 Год назад

"The pinnacle of insulting blasphemy that is the existence of the fake pocket" is the best sentence I have ever heard 😆🙌🏻

@trinkab 3 года назад

Bernadette: tie-on pockets tied around the waist. My brain: soooo...fanny packs have been around for longer than I thought.

@sushreeshashwata 3 года назад

Yes thats what i was thinking. Those were not ‘pockets’ bags tied to the waistline 😂

@zanet391 3 года назад

@@sushreeshashwata I call them super vintage fanny packs. Already made 4 of them, they're good for using up scraps (which is just another benefit).

@katherinemorelle7115 3 года назад

Requisite giggle from a non American at the term “fanny pack”.

@kerriskb19 3 года назад

@@katherinemorelle7115 an american and i still giggle at the term fanny pack.... and also at how the terms "fanny" and "front bottom" exist in relation to that part of the female anatomy at all lol

@APrimbun 3 года назад

@@kerriskb19 I've never heard "front bottom." Interesting...

@really-quite-exhausted 3 года назад

There's a nursery rhymes that begins "Lucy Locket lost her pocket..." and I never used to understand how on earth someone could lose an entire sewn-in pocket, but when you consider the historical context of tie-on pockets, it makes an awful lot more sense...

@TheSnortler 3 года назад

I know the feeling. A pickpocket is called a "pocket thief" in Danish, which conjures the image of a thief stealing the pocket itself. Now it makes sense!

@rpurdy4821 3 года назад

Exactly, I remember that nursery rhyme and always thought it was ridiculous until I learned in my later adult years that women/girls used to tie their pockets on. It was a regular thing then.

@jobug7507 3 года назад

Also, my confusion with "cutpurse" can be explained similarly. this always made no sense to me, why i don't know

@toast1887 3 года назад

WOW I never thought of that. It does make so much more sense now!

@suzynightingale616 3 года назад

Yes, I used to be confused by that so much! Incidentally, there are darker readings of that poem that suggest the ‘pocket’ was referring to a client that Lucy lost, and which Kitty Fisher (a well known 18th C. Courtesan, for which a marvellous restaurant in London is named - and which you should definitely visit, Bernadette!) had taken on...

@mooncake4371 3 года назад

I’m not sure if it’s a western thing, but having lived in Japan for a few years, I noticed that almost all women’s garments have pockets. Big pockets! All my dresses and skirts have pockets. The inside lining of jackets also have big pockets. Big enough to fit an ipad. The clothing is very functional. I do miss finding modern clothing with pockets now that I’m back in North America.

@kyrab7914 Год назад

📝 buy... Pants... From Japan. Got it!

@joypawz7654 Год назад

@@kyrab7914 I need to note this too

@anastasiiazdorikova Год назад

Btw I recently moved to Germany and discovered that a majority of jackets and coats have an inside pocket on the left side (where the lapelles are). It was the first time in my life of 30 years that I have a luxury of hiding my smartphone there. Oh and I'm from Ukraine, we also rarely have pockets😑

@kyrab7914 Год назад

@@anastasiiazdorikova it's a pocket conspiracy! Thanks for smuggling the big pocket info out to us

@nao_z Год назад

I've thrifted 3 skirts that has tags in Japanese, and ALL of them have pockets. This was why!!!

@CorrinaLightchaser 3 года назад

"Excuse me, are you clucking?" "Oh, no. That's just the chicken in my pocket"

@lindala2602 2 года назад

Is that a chicken in your pocket or are you just happy to see me...

@abigailw7146 Год назад

this reminds me of the time someone brought a baby chicken in their backpack into starbucks chirping very loudly and were like “can i get some water for my.. for me”

@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Год назад

@@abigailw7146 that's actually incredible

@lauramiller8400 3 года назад

Meanwhile my daughter’s baby clothes have pockets. They are teeny tiny but they exist more frequently and in better proportion to the size of the garment than many of my clothes.

@Sthemingway 3 года назад

Has she discovered yet that she can put her hands in them?

@LilSinger097 3 года назад

My sons had huge pockets in their baby/toddler clothes that quite often got filled with upchuck or rocks

@Nesi-Rose 3 года назад

I can only imagine the fun surprises you'll find in her pockets once she starts crawling around!

@kristintindall7585 3 года назад

Exactly! New to this mom thing & the audacity of baby pockets feels as if it is a deliberately sadistic joke!

@lynn2551 3 года назад

@@kristintindall7585 I agree

@pugglebiscuit9600 3 года назад

Living on a ranch, a live chicken is now the only unit of pocket measurement I'll accept 🤣

@neznor 3 года назад

Are we talking bantam or Jersey giant sized pockets?

@the_hearthfire 3 года назад

I’d rather do 4 bantams, 2 Orpingtons, or a Muscovy duck. Then you can carry 8, 4, or 2 birds depending on the size. And how many chicks would that be? And for collect eggs to. I’d literally just sew a basket woven pocket into a skirt so the eggs don’t break like they do in regular pockets 😂

@teagan_p_999 3 года назад

I made my mom an egg-collecting apron with individual pockets a couple years ago

@HumanimalChannel 3 года назад

Cute.

@goldengryphon 3 года назад

@@the_hearthfire I had my spouse pose the question of a potential egg-gathering apron, that would work for the type of egg gathering I do, as a potential labor saving device. I had posited a "work belt" situation for gardening, with either an add on or a separate "belt" for the livestock and egg-gathering. Haven't yet firmed up my plans, but I do have some amazingly outrageous light canvas of which to make it/them.

@ms_ch 3 года назад

When I showed my friends at school i sew a pocket inside my coat and they went NUTS Same thing happened when a random lady said her skirt had pockets and she put her arm almost to the elbow inside and people around started screaming in excitement That's what they took from us: HAPPINESS

@CasualGamerGirl77 11 месяцев назад

Man! The joy I missed out on two years ago. Nice for me now though.

@ms_ch 11 месяцев назад

@@CasualGamerGirl77 it's never too late to hop in the pocket train! 🚆

@skylark7921 2 года назад

I still remember reading Harry Potter for the first time and being extremely puzzled as to how he fit his wand in his pocket. I remember looking at my jeans and being like “I don’t think I could fit a *pencil* in these”. Then a friend of mine pulled a replica wand out of his pocket. I was both amazed and infuriated

@JH-lz4dh 3 года назад

You know what really gets me, is not just the horrible state of women's pockets in clothing, but when I see that there are COATS and JACKETS for women without pockets. It's infuriating!

@athannyx6815 3 года назад

This offends me too. Coats and jackets at the very least should be the reasonable counter. There's also long sweaters with sewn in pockets that are a great counter. But *apparently* those can't be the fashion...

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@athannyx6815 Sweaters aren't ideal for pockets since they're knit rather than woven, but jackets don't typically have that problem.

@athannyx6815 3 года назад

@@ragnkja I know they aren't ideal but it's possible. Also be aware I'm kind of doing general layered garments meant to warm indoors as kind of sweaters. Not just the very poofy knit sweaters that aren't practical. I know there's a few sweater design types that can accommodate pockets. There's also the loose hanging sweaters my mom bought, long sleeved and knitted with an opening in the front, which are designed with pockets and could beautifully be used as a layered way to include pockets. Particular, if they *insist* on the thinner clothes pattern so you have to buy more clothes, it's meant to be between a coat and a lighter shirt. Or overtop a dress or a small shirt/skirt combo.

@lv2draw1 3 года назад

Theres a reason pockets are the no.1 thing i look for in a coat. Any less then 4 I'm just not buying. And woe and behold if they have fake pockets. My current coat only got away with 2 fake pockets bc it already had 5 functional pockets. Never settle for less

@athannyx6815 3 года назад

@@lv2draw1 My current coat has two deep pockets because my Mom is very good at finding coats with good pockets and I don't care if I look like a penguin. But that's a different thing. But I always make sure I have pockets deep enough for a wallet *somewhere* .

@yupekosi413 3 года назад

the fact that i can fit my phone, keys, charger, switch, headphones, weapons, cat, and the state of nebraska in the pockets of my 'men's' jeans but i can barely fit a pack of gum in the pockets of my 'women's' jeans is quite honestly a hate crime

@Laladust 3 года назад

Now I know where my cat got lost to. Give him back!

@Tiger89Lilly 3 года назад

My husband likes to store 2l bottles of pop in each of his pockets as well as keys, phone, wallet, dog lead, snacks, pebbles the toddler collects and christ knows what else I pull out of them when I'm doing laundry

@bryanbrydred5599 3 года назад

My mum: do you wanna get an extra bag for the leftovers Me with two sandwiches in my pocket

@BeastGuardian 3 года назад

@@Tiger89Lilly I initially parsed "pebbles the toddler collects" as "Pebbles the Toddler", like the child from the Flintstones, and pictured pulling an entire toddler from the pocket.

@Tiger89Lilly 3 года назад

@@BeastGuardian now that would be useful when she's throwing a tantrum. Also pebbles is a great name for her. I'll get it changed by deed poll 😂

@MoonRov13r 3 года назад

Bernadette having passive-aggressive rants about historically accurate wardrobes and garments gives me life.

@lauradubosque9269 3 года назад

You know you have gotten deep in a youtube hole when you hear the words "pocket scholars" and you don't even study fashion. Love it.

@NightTimeDay 11 месяцев назад

The book is fantastic, I highly recommend it

@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 3 месяца назад

well, we all wear clothes. so it is in our area of interest

@rainpooper7088 3 года назад

As someone who doesn’t wear jeans, can we just mention that the few linen pants that actually do have enough space to pocket a phone tend to be so loose that you constantly have to fight the weight of your phone trying to pull your pants down?

@LunaLaFae 3 года назад

For real. I have a pair of linen shorts that actually have huge, men's sized pockets (I have to bend down slightly to reach the bottom with my short fingers), but they tend to stretch out a lot, and so weight of my phone tries to pull them down my hips. And I have wide hips!

@Awulle 3 года назад

And not just linen. Also, those that are structured enough to support the weight of something being carried in a pocket seem to be designed to have things of any size fall out with any activity (even/especially simply sitting and standing) even though those objects technically fit.

@jaspersgrimoire 3 года назад

To improve pocket weight, try sewing a little cotton tape from the top of the pocket to your waistband. Puts the weight on the band instead of the side seams.

@skyrcro8E38 3 года назад

I have a pair of linen shorts with belt loops. Also has cargo style pockets!

@Darenim 3 года назад

@@skyrcro8E38 I am jealous

@theladyinthetinymanor 3 года назад

At some point, my life evolved from "I buy fast fashion every week in an attempted to blend in the society" to "I enjoy a video essay about historical pockets while waiting for a made-to-order edwardian linen skirt to arrive". I will never complain about this. Thank you Bernadette for making me dive even deeper into historical fashion !

@samantha.redacted 3 года назад

where are you getting the skirt? I'm real curious for myself

@TsukiKizzu 3 года назад

Yes! Welcome to the "we're sick of fast fashion" club!

@fireline4765 3 года назад

"Made to order "* not "mode to order " not complaining, just thought I'd help you out 😁

@theladyinthetinymanor 3 года назад

@@fireline4765 Haha thanks ! It seems like my french keyboard did its thing again... 😂

@theladyinthetinymanor 3 года назад

@@samantha.redacted The skirt is from a shop on Etsy called BlueLadyCouture ! ☺️

@Parodox306 2 года назад

As a kid I once asked my mother to hold something in her pocket and when she said she didn't have any pockets (despite wearing denim jeans) I was gobsmacked and outraged AND I STILL AM.

@edenwayne8407 2 года назад

What I really don't get about women's pockets is the reasoning, I mean a phone sticking out someone's hip ruins someone's contour more than a flat bulge on their side.

@sirmoonslosthismind 2 года назад

obviously, the intention is not for you to have a phone on you at all. you should look pretty and let your husband take care of you lol.

@MJkatzTheWriter 2 года назад

@@sirmoonslosthismind Lololol!!

@nicoletazuniga884 3 года назад

the way she pulls fancy dagger scissors from the pocket in the back of her skirt like she's about to assassinate an enemy lord htschghbkiyb we stan forever 😭😭😭👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💖💖💖

@k1tkat-kate 3 года назад

A MOOD

@JordannGeorge 3 года назад

honestly! i was like, "we need more of that." the reason for the scissors as well as the dress itself lol

@orchishmamukherjee5250 3 года назад

Why I put my female characters in Victorian Formal Gowns: POCKETS (obviously, it's fiction so I exaggerate a bit while writing but like one of them hides a literal rapier amongst her petticoats and stores literally EVERYTHING in that back pocket lmaooo)

@Traci_Websinger 2 года назад

Murder Mittens by R. J. Blain. Death by sewing shears. Sanctioned even. Lovely series.

@catgirl4972 3 года назад

I remember one of my teachers showing a wedding picture and we liked her dress. She said yeah it even has pockets. Every Single Girl in the room gasped and we were all in aww we thought it was so cool.

@emijunkai 3 года назад

POCKETS!

@carolynworthington8996 3 года назад

One of my favorite things about my Mother of the Groom dress was...pockets!

@randomMysh 3 года назад

I made my wedding dress because I am insane. You can bet I put pockets in it!

@z1LeaF 3 года назад

My dress also had pockets! Deep ones too!

@abbybews3982 3 года назад

When I tell you I g a s p e d

@athoughtfulwillow 3 года назад

This is so cool! I'm Korean, and my ancestors carried these tie-in pockets called beokjumoni, which was thought to bring luck. I love learning about other cultures and watching your videos remind me of my days in Canada as a university student. Thank you for sharing!

@lsamoa 2 года назад

A Korean friend of mine gave me a beokjumoni as a present once. It's so beautiful! I really cherish it.

@ca19ro_32 2 года назад

I officially got so angry over not being able to fit my phone in my jeans that I proceeded to cut up an old blue and white striped T-shirt and used it to make my pockets larger. The method I used (cutting up the existing pockets at the bottom & simply adding rectangle sized pieces of fabric) is a little crude, my stitches are probably not the prettiest or strongest and my fingers hurt for days afterwards, bc of course I don't have a sewing machine, BUT I can put stuff into my jeans & I'm really happy and proud of myself ngl xD

@hotjanuary 2 года назад

You should watch Abby Cox’s thimble video. She teaches how to properly use a thimble so that sewing doesn’t kill your hands for short projects like adding a pocket.

@ionethenb2764 3 года назад

Me listening to the extensive history of tie on pockets: "Wait does that mean the fanny pack is technically a tie on pocket?!?!"

@irisbear9421 2 года назад

yes. yes it is!

@HunterSlingbaum 2 года назад

omg i can’t believe i didn’t put that together 😳 i literally wear my fanny pack almost every day

@Wisewhispers 2 года назад

SAME HAT

@Ganliard 2 года назад

Fanny pack sounds a bit vulgar for a piece of clothing, doesn't it? I always found this name quite... funny in that regard

@DanceswithDustBunnies 2 года назад

@@Ganliard bum pack is more suitable lol

@Hiker_who_Sews 3 года назад

My bff wanted bell bottoms for a 1960s costume. He found a pair in the ladies department that were a perfect fit. At home he was modelling them for me, and put his hands in the pockets. He was angry that he'd paid full price for what was obviously a mistake at the factory... an "irregular" as some would call it. "No," I said to him. "Now you understand my pain,"

@julietsrhino7079 3 года назад

Well, at least he may have gained some valuable insight into the nonsense women have had to deal with seemingly forever. I have been complaining about the lack of inside pockets in jackets and coats since at least the early 90s (when I was a kid). Also, "men's wallets" vs "women's wallets". Aaaargh!

@pinkajou656 3 года назад

Fake pockets make me want to scream, in the middle of Walmart

@tessat338 3 года назад

@@pinkajou656 Exactly! Why even bother putting them on if they are not going to be functional?

@erica_1ynn78 3 года назад

@@julietsrhino7079 UGGHHHH YES THE WALLETS ARE AN OUTRAGE!

@ShinningCrys 2 года назад

@Gabriella Rossi unfortunately 😔 it was absolutely intensional

@wyvern723 3 года назад

I remember complaining about lack of pockets as a teen, and my mother chided me, saying that pockets were ugly and tried to insist I wear clothing with fake pockets. Ugh. As for masculine clothing and pockets, when my son was a toddler, his clothing had better pockets than mine did. He was 18 months!

@RadioActiveCat17 3 года назад

I guess "you dropped your pocket" was a thing that could have actually happened then, rather than a schoolyard taunt.

@rburns8083 3 года назад

I love the sassiness as you defend the honor of historic garments against blasphemous lies and misinformation!

@junecampbell2152 3 года назад

@Dana A-N IKR, RU-vid must be acting up again...

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@junecampbell2152 Patreon early access. We get to watch the video while it's still unlisted.

@TimeQuxxn 3 года назад

I would be disappointed if she didnt

@ioovoo1818 3 года назад

Please she ignores a ton of evidence. I don't know why. It doesn't suit her narrative? She never talks about WWII and order L-85 and deletes any mention of it so who is spreading misinformation? No doubt this will be removed, but you will have it in your history and you will know, if this comment vanishes that it's because L-85 doesn't suit her narrative.

@somebodyelse138 3 года назад

@@ioovoo1818 As Ms Banner's area of expertise is pre-1920s she's not ignoring anything. It's not a conspiracy, it's Ms Banner talking about a specific time frame.

@AssignedCryptid 3 года назад

My first patternmaking class at fashion school a few years back, one of the first things our predominantly feminine class asked the teacher was how to add pockets to literally everything. Upon seeing the multiple pages of various pocket styles and options in the textbook everyone got very excited for the glorious possibilities for pocket supremacy.

@TarunoNafs 3 года назад

Pocket supremacy, great word! lol

@AnneBeamish 3 года назад

You had a great teacher.

@crystalrickett2302 3 года назад

What was the name of the book?

@DonnaEDesign 3 года назад

I put pockets in nearly everything. Must. Have. Pockets.

@lunashhhh5419 3 года назад

This sounds like heavenly

@anastasiafalcon4637 3 года назад

I suffer a lot when I go dancing. You can't dance with a handbag. But you can't just leave your bag somewhere. Even if you don't have much stuff in there, a minimum of house keys, phone and some money/credit card you need to put somewhere.

@americanbookdragon 3 года назад

Fanny packs need to become popular again.

@thewallcreepersnest9035 3 года назад

Yes. YES !!!

@MJkatzTheWriter 2 года назад

@@americanbookdragon No, functional 🌻 POCKETS 🌻 need to come back again. Not another ugly, stiff belt (with breakable plastic clips!) to wear around the waist, sporting a fanny pack that won't hold half of what one or two decent-sized pockets (for men) would. Also, pockets would feel less bulky & "in-the-way" everytime we had to bend over to pick up something, be it 'pen, coin, or kid'! 😏

@Niobesnuppa 3 года назад

This is one thing I love about buying 1950's and 1940's clothing online. I don't know if this is a historical thing, or if the people making these kinds of clothes just know how important it is do have pockets, but every single 1950's dress or 1940's jumpsuit I've bought have had massive pockets, to the point where I can literally fit books in them. it's amazing.

@vfung21 Год назад

Could you share the website that you bought it from? I'm definitely interested in buying dresses that have pockets in them.

@allangibson8494 Год назад

Jumpsuits have pockets because they were originally designed for “jumping” out of aircraft… Cargo pants have pockets on the thighs because pockets on the waist band are utterly inaccessible while wearing a parachute harness (and accessible sandwiches are utterly essential to paratroopers).

@kohlraedirectioner Год назад

@@allangibson8494 the jumpsuits op was referring to are like dresses, but with trousers instead of a skirt... They were certainly not designed for jumping out of planes and have nothing to do with cargo pants.

@allangibson8494 Год назад

@@kohlraedirectioner The origin of “jumpsuit” was literally for parachuting. What it moved on to is a totally different question… The Germans started with smocks for the Fallshirmjager but the British tried them and found longer narrower legs worked better. Flight suits have a similar genesis (and similar pocket layouts).

@kohlraedirectioner Год назад

@@allangibson8494 yes, what it moved on to *is* an entirely different question, which is why its origins are irrelevant to a discussion of said garment.

@haileybalmer9722 3 года назад

I want there to be a scene in a movie where a lady with giant panniers reaches into her pocket and starts removing items and placing them into the other pocket. A ribbon, a fan, a nose gay, a perfume bottle, a tea cup, a small dog, a collapsing parasol, before she finally finds the apple she was looking for.

@NyalaDescoudres 3 года назад

It'll be a Mary Poppins sequel ;) Honestly though I'd love to see this in a movie.

@ArizonaRain220 3 года назад

Okay but this has to be AT LEAST a 45-second montage with the items getting bigger and more obscure as she nears the bottom of the pocket 😂😂

@ragnkja 3 года назад

No live animals, please. As a replacement, how about using a pair of shoes (comfy if the ones she’s wearing are fancy or vice versa)?

@returnoftheromans6726 3 года назад

Yes! Instantly reached the status of a Legend.

@lucaortolani2059 3 года назад

I want her to say "It must be here somewhere, I remember putting it in yesterday with the fine china set"

@nguyenucit 3 года назад

Typical conversion at work, when we used to go into the office: Co-worker: I like your dress. Me: Thank you, it has pockets! [shoves my hands into pockets to demonstrate]

@addikay7097 3 года назад

other women fawning over skirts with pockets is both the most pure and simultaneously infuriating thing because we need pockets, goddammit!

@forestdaydreams9447 3 года назад

This frustrates me because the very fact this is a cultural trend for all women shows that women want pockets , it proves that there’s a market for them, and yet they don’t exist

@havvagokce1441 3 года назад

And a HOOD that actually fits ones head! Once 30 years or so ago, i bought a winter coat, "unisex" obviously!!!🥺😓🤪🤬, that had miraculously two outer deep pockets, one inner pocket, and one pocket near the zippers seam that can't be seen, with s deep proper hood. It was miraculous even back then. Paid four to five coats worth of money to it, because it was my size (I have a height impediment called being tall for a standard woman🤬). Bland black coat. But it was the star of the work that winter. Not because of it's boring cut, neither bland colour, and not non-existing adornments. Because of hood and pockets. I still have it. Worn but still usable. Men's clothing is both sturdier, much easier to pair(more like near impossible to clash if you re not working heavily towards it), much much easier to pay, and easier to use.

@ms_ch 3 года назад

@@havvagokce1441 When i went thrifting (before pandemic etc) i chose only men's pants and coats. They last FOREVER, even the old cheap ones! Also am tall so there's that. My "feminine" pants are dissolving after 5 years and these ancients (90s) are still strong, comfortable and goes perfectly with very girly extravagant sometimes obscene tees and tank tops. Accidental style. I don't like to hide when it's warm so the extremes balance eachother.

@lucimirabella9415 3 года назад

I know when I go place with in a dress with pockets I always have something in there so ppl know that my dress has pockets, even if I have my purse with me I will shove as much as I can into the pocket so it is visible

@raccoonspirit5369 2 года назад

I started watching this video on a Friday night. 75% of the way through, I decided I needed to make a set of pockets for by gypsy costume. I left this current video to search for tutorials on how to make pockets. After realizing that it would be awesome to hand embroider a pocket I handmade, bought everything I needed to start embroidering the next day. By Sunday I had completed my first piece of stitch work. Now, Monday, I am finishing watching the video.

@danieljhalab6775 2 года назад

Productive procrastination?

@voloshanca Год назад

Uhmmm... ethnicity is not a costume. Shouldn't be. Please give up on that "costume".

@TeishaPriest 2 года назад

Watching this has made me wonder whether the reason my great-grandmothers always wore an apron at home was because of the pockets. If they went out, they took their handbag, but whenever they were at home, they wore an apron with nice-sized patch pockets!

@josenavau7136 3 года назад

My Fashion Design teacher used to work for Dior during the Marc Bohan period, and he became friends with Elsa Schiaparelli. She had always worn her own clothing (marketing strategy), but when she retired, this old lady (and amazing designer) asked my teacher to create her new wardrobe, for as long as she lived. This is what she told him: "Manolito, you have total freedom to do what you want, except for two things: buttons that do not fasten, and fake pockets"

@ragnkja 3 года назад

Perfectly reasonable limitations.

@amandajoy8947 3 года назад

Buttons that do not fasten are my bane as a nursing mother! I would like to wear dresses, dresses must then open at the front in some form. And yet more than half the dresses with front buttons are not actually front-buttoning dresses! I bought one once that had a whole placket and everything so they appeared functional, and the loops for the buttons were sewn in place! At least the re-doing was simple enough.

@julietsrhino7079 3 года назад

I loathe both of these and yet, they are SO ubiquitous among all women's clothing since at the very least the late 1990s.

@LadyBirdieBop 3 года назад

When my husband’s jeans wear out, I steal his back pockets and slap them on my own backside. I will not be stopped in this matter.

@yadayada752 3 года назад

Good idea. I find Jean's I like, but they have the flaps with buttons on the back pocket. Can't put a phone or really anything in them.

@-ix-3152 3 года назад

I need to start doing this! You are a genius!

@candaceclayton1043 3 года назад

Reasons why I’m learning to sew 1. Pockets 2. More pockets 3 seriously pockets

@marvellousmrsmoller 3 года назад

Why wait? find some fabric and makes some for every garment you own!

@katherinehumphrey9432 3 года назад

Why wait for him to wear them out..?

@naomibousson 3 года назад

A few years ago my sister's then-boyfriend was staying over for dinner. They were planning to go to the pub and she said she didn't want to take her handbag with her because it's always in her way and there is the risk of losing the d*mn thing. Boyfriend said to just leave the handbag at home to which she said she couldn't because where would she put her keys, phone and wallet? I bet you can already guess his reply... "JuSt PuT iT In YoUr PoCkEtS!". My sis and I both laughed and said that we couldn't because our pockets are too small or nonexistent. He said that we were being difficult and then got up to demonstrate how his wallet fits perfectly in his front pocket. We were like "Yeah good for you, but we can't do that." and kinda continued complaining to each other about our tiny pockets until my sister's boyfriend really got fed up with it and called us drama queens. That's when my sister got up and demanded that he put his hands in the pockets of her jeans. He did and man he was so shocked! It was kinda funny. He asked if all our pants were like this and we were like "Jup!". He did a 180 right then and there and started ranting about how we should protest this and my sister and I were like "Oh really, what a novel idea!". Also... I have this one jeans that I only wear to do dirty work. It doesn't have any pockets and I keep forgetting that. It pisses me off every time I put it on. Even worse when I drop my phone because I tried to put it in the nonexisting pocket. Also also... Inside pockets. So many men's jackets and coats have them and I want those too!

@eclipsedmoon87 2 года назад

If I were going to take over the world and change exactly one thing, I would go up to every single CEO of fashion companies, and ask them about their policies regarding pockets. They will be informed that this interview is life or death, but they will not be informed as to which answer will allow them to live, to promote honesty. If they say that women's clothing doesn't need pockets, and that we can just use bags, they will unceremoniously be shot. Advocates for proper pocket equality will be allowed to live

@Roxor128 Год назад

I would support doing this for many other industries as well. Gaming companies and the subject of lootboxes and microtransactions. Technology companies and privacy. Media companies and copyright. Resource/energy companies and climate change. I doubt more than 5% of the world's CEOs would be left alive after such a process.

@eclipsedmoon87 Год назад

@@Roxor128 we should team up for world domination then

@lindabeauchamp4596 Год назад

🤣

@MissingRaptor Год назад

This would be a beautiful example of social evolution in action 💖

@horsegirltoyou4339 Год назад

@@MissingRaptor Natural selection to. Weed out the stupid and cruel. Maybe distribute there wealth to people who need it as well. Two birds with one stone and all that.

@wandat.7309 3 года назад

Wait, you’re telling me I could have had a pocket to hold a whole LOAF of bread?!

@ragnkja 3 года назад

Six or seven bread rolls, at the very least.

@cherub2918 3 года назад

The real point is what fits a loaf of bread could also fit a bottle of wine ;)

@FantasyGeek24 3 года назад

A pannier for your pain. I told a group of costume students about these and they lost it

@ez8314 3 года назад

Imagine, if you will, pulling an entire bagette out of ones pocket

@BSong-kc3bl 3 года назад

The fact that I cannot pull an entire loaf of bread out of my pocket is a disappointment and a disgrace. Brb imma make a giant pocket to fit bread in.

@mathildasaunders9502 3 года назад

I made my own dress for my graduation ceremony in 2019, and it had a victorian bag pocket that was 12 inches long - the look on peoples faces when I pulled out a glasses case, water bottle, programme and lip balm was spectacular

@emijunkai 3 года назад

😂

@michellerabey6637 3 года назад

I wish I could see such a wonderous creation for myself! 😢

@PreetiSharma_-mz9ep 3 года назад

Who ever you are I love you...

@sourfrog21 3 года назад

Hence, you created a mini Mary Poppins bag.

@MikaylaROL 3 года назад

Can you teach me??? 🤯

@sonjadepiro3143 3 года назад

I was given a dress with pockets and just the thought of having a item of clothing that could actually hold an object made me so exited, I don't think I have ever been more pleased receiving a piece of clothing

@TheVioletMaze 3 года назад

In the early 2000s when "goth"s (me) were wearing extremely oversized pants, my pockets were big enough to hold a 2 litter of soda and a roasted chicken to the movie theaters. I never bought popcorn. 😆

@nope_118 3 года назад

the rage you feel when you try to put something in your pocket only to discover it is only capable of holding three raisins and two coins

@confused2631 3 года назад

two dimes specifically

@therussianprincess7036 3 года назад

Even handbags suffer from the shrinkage. That, coupled with the pocket apocalypse, is why I now have purchased a bag that can carry multiple A4 books, my lunch, a water bottle and a medkit. Fashion can go die.

@kennashey 3 года назад

If that....

@SewlockHolmes 3 года назад

If it exists at all!

@horsecrazycrafter 3 года назад

You guys are fitting 2 coins????

@InstantCrazy1 3 года назад

My significant other was unawares of this torture thrust upon women until he went shopping with me and I repeatedly turned down one pair of jeans after another because I NEED pockets. He has joined our fight.

@PowerToolsnPearls 3 года назад

Huzzah! 🎉it must be celebrated when we find support! More of this please and thank you 🙏🏻

@11thShadowDragon 3 года назад

Tell him that fellow pursuers of good pocketry welcome him!

@7DdlySns713 3 года назад

I have also brought a male over to the side of women's pockets! I need mine as well, and my male friend realized in horror because I refuse purses.

@crunchevo8974 3 года назад

Have you considered making the pockets bigger yourself?

@thecompassrose5808 3 года назад

My husband has too joined, he understands why to make most my clothes now.

@phrase3010 3 года назад

my school uniform skirt/pinafore has one okay-sized pocket on one side and a zipper to undress on the other side, and too many times, as a left-hander, have i nearly undressed myself in the effort of just trying to use my darn pocket.

@zombiemoses 3 года назад

I find the existence of both Pocket Philosophers and Pocket Theorists endlessly entertaining.

@n.m.7930 3 года назад

Women’s pockets are so frustrating. Once I was complaining about women’s pockets and my brother said I was exaggerating and that women’s pockets weren’t that bad, so I said, “out of the two of us who has worn both men’s *and* women’s clothing? Me! Because women’s pockets are so small I’ve resorted to were men’s pants!!”

@sleepykat13 3 года назад

I wore a belt with pockets over my outfit to a concert one time and while in line a girl complimented me on it. I told her I got it cause it was my reaction to clothes without pockets or small ones and instantly there was an outcry about the size of women's pockets on all sides from every women who heard. The guys in front of us were bewildered. Very funny.

@randompotato7391 3 года назад

@@sleepykat13 That sounds great 😂

@doodlefawn4742 3 года назад

Best way to show an example? Put on some women's jeans, have him wear his jeans, and find like, a phone or something and see how far it sticks down in the pocket.

@jennifermoriarty2188 Год назад

Nothing wrong with wearing man pants

@Noel.Chmielowiec 3 года назад

This is video that should be played for any designer, so they won't do this blasphemous thing that is fake pockets. I hate them. Thank you Bernadette for this video essay, it really brighten my day.

@TrappedinSLC 3 года назад

I don’t mind fake pockets in places where you can’t really use it anyway - like some styles call for a breast pocket for the standard ‘look’ of the style, but if you have boobs (Eta: I meant this to say big boobs - smaller boobs depending on the cut of the garment it can work but as they get larger there’s just geometry issues involved) you can’t USE said pockets because as soon as you put something in them it just pokes out weirdly and isn’t functional. But there should be useful pockets in places where they will work with the shape of the body.

@sourcedancer7079 3 года назад

I've found a blazer at some point that looked like it had fake pockets. I was unhappy with that and started investigating the seams to see if I couldn't add some. Turned out there WERE (small) pockets there but they had simply sewn the opening shut, as a design choice. Seriously?!

@bun04y 3 года назад

@@sourcedancer7079 I have a few pair of pants with similar sewn shut pockets on the back side.

@IgorKolar 3 года назад

@@sourcedancer7079 I know next to nothing about these things, but I've been told that the sewing of the pockets is something that's done to keep it pristine until it's used. Most suit jackets I bought were sewn shut and you were expected to cut them open.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@sourcedancer7079 Not as a design choice, just to keep the garment still looking its best by the time it reached you.

@luce3619 3 года назад

Here you talked about western clothing but like it's the same in other parts of the world. I wear shalwar kameez basically Pakistani clothing and have the same problem I have no pockets on my clothes while the shalwar kameez of my brother has 3 pockets.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166 2 года назад

Oh no!! 🥺 I had always hoped that people wearing sari, kimono, hanbok & kameez (with all the lovely fabric draping) had managed to sneak some pockets or tie-in pockets under that extra fabric, but it sounds like pocket supremacy is a truly international issue! ✊🌍

@luce3619 2 года назад

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 It is. Apparently pockets don't good with women's clothes but if men's clothes have 3 of them it is never a problem.

@amandajoy8947 3 года назад

Shall we talk about the delicious irony of those sewing projects that take women's jeans and make them into handbags?

@MeMe-Moi 3 года назад

There was a nursery rhyme that confused me until I learned about tie on pockets. “Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it. Not a penny was there in it, Just ribbon ‘round it.” This makes so much more sense if the pocket wasn’t sewn into a garment.

@CurryBunns 3 года назад

"professional pocket scholars" is something you just said with a straight face

@kittys.hearth 2 года назад

I love how, despite the fact the Bernadette Banner is well versed in the ins and outs of pre-ww1 history and fashion, she still has the whit and humor of gen-z.

@kikib48grid Год назад

Bernadette, YOU are a hoot. I love your restrained outrage. Let us all rise up together in our pocket revolution! PLEASE make a part two, showing how to alter small pockets and how to make fake pockets into real pockets. I know you will do a brilliant job.

@katlawliss9496 3 года назад

Nothing feels better on a rainy day than sipping a cup of tea whilst watching a delightfully educated rant. Thank you for that, Bernadette.

@brindmusicnerd 3 года назад

Well said 😁 🫖

@dianeshim8645 3 года назад

It's sunny over here and I was eating tacos, but same

@YTistooannoying 3 года назад

It isnt that educated. It is cherry picking. Pockets disappeared partly due to wwii and the rationing of fabric.

@jules4742 3 года назад

Exactly my vibe rn 🌧️☕

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@YTistooannoying Then why didn’t masculine pockets suffer the same fate?

@SkySilverFire 3 года назад

My friend made her own cape full of pockets, and we managed to sneak: a half bottle of wine, half a rotisserie chicken and a Caesar salad into a movie theater. It was glorious

@cornoffthecob5295 3 года назад

That is incredible my friend

@alicepeace5101 3 года назад

I have an oversized men's denim jacket that I sew all my patches to. The inside pockets comfortably conceal two bottles of wine and two hip flasks.... priorities ;)

@ChaosCause3000 3 года назад

Your friend might enjoy "the name of the wind" ^^

@caljones 3 года назад

I knitted a small cape (reaches about the end of my fingertips) about a year ago out of yarn scraps and added six pockets. Unfortunately, mine are small, so i wouldn’t be able to put all of that in them.

@tchaney3777 2 года назад

@@alicepeace5101 Exactly. This, aside from comfort, is why we shop the men’s section lol.

@nerolia_gaming8030 3 года назад

THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTE BRILLIANT, DEAR BERNADETTE! The sole fact that women's upper clothes, coats, jackets, etc never have an inner chest pocket while men's clothes ALWAYS have it outrages me to the extent that volcano eruption would seem harmless in comparison with this.

@multitudeofvoices 2 года назад

This video makes me want to create an easy but HUGE pocket pattern to add onto all women's clothing and widely distribute it for free. Also, I'm so loving the hand embroidery she did on her tie-on pockets.

@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Год назад

The embroidery was made by someone else, Bernadette has another video on the making of that pocket.

@aenorist2431 3 года назад

At this point I watch your stuff for the following reasons: 15% interest in historical garments 25% fawning over how amazing you make them look 20% pure subtitle sass 40% memery

@ruthanneparkes1464 3 года назад

Forgot the voice/accent and vocabulary

@skittles8533 3 года назад

My grandson once sewed a tube sock to one of his pockets that had ripped out at the bottom of his jeans and called it a socket. He stored all kinds of things in there...he was 12.

@suemommie 3 года назад

Hilarious! Read a meme a while back where a kid called his pockets ‘snack holes’.

@giirlchan 3 года назад

He's going places

@kerrypoppins5388 3 года назад

A well-executed pun! And so innovative!!

@herlastvoyage 3 года назад

This kid sounds amazing

@nelumvia 3 года назад

Did he go places? XD

@user-rj9mg9yy9g 4 месяца назад

I'm a Historian with a specialty in Women & Gender. I was reading an academic article about pockets, and the author discussed older women in the early Regency period refusing to give up their tie on pockets. She humorusly described the tie on style as being very generous, "capable of holding a bushel of apples, or a litter of kittens... or a small child"

@awkwardsity 3 года назад

Me *carrying a comically large backpack because I refuse to spend money on a purse, but I also live in leggings*: I’m listening

@galaxysprinkles1573 3 года назад

The tone of the editing is giving me life *inserts Chef's Kiss à la Rachel Maksey(TM)* 😏😏

@pinsneedlespaint1512 3 года назад

Yes *shaking memes intensify*

@LupineDawn 3 года назад

Rachel would be all over this she’s always looking for pockets to stash her mic

@lilyfileti7830 3 года назад

yup

@roninelenion4805 3 года назад

I was watching this with my little sister, and at 0:46, we both said in unison, "I want to carry a chicken."

@christinevr7698 3 года назад

omg ...dying !!!!lolol

@roryearl1784 3 года назад

I am currently planning a skirt project to go with the tie on pockets I'm going to make to carry my chickens around in

@nienkedejong2433 3 года назад

Last autumn I made my own (tie-on)pockets, embroidered them prettily so they can be worn under, and also over clothing. and I now wear them almost every day. There are many items that permanently live in those pockets. like bankcards, thimbles, lighters, measuretapes, scissors, keys, cat toys, washi tape, pens and many more. i only need to take my pockets and I am ready to go anywhere. I can recommend making them to anyone. they can also be a great starter project since it does not have complicated turns or gathering.

@skulduggerypleasant6439 2 года назад

A few months ago my school finally added trousers for girls to the uniform. It would have been SO FUCKING EASY to just.....take the same ones that were already there??????? But of course they had to make new ones. Guess who has proper pockets and who doesn't.

@KickyFut Год назад

Sounds like an opportunity to do some fun modifications!😅

@voloshanca Год назад

This is completely outrageous and sexist as hell. No school should have separate uniforms for girls and boys in the first place. Wear boys' uniform to the school and if they dare to say something to you get your parents to sue the school in the court for discrimination. I'm sure the law is on your side. This is absolutely unacceptable.

@victorialeonida3379 3 года назад

Bernadette Banner is "The modern day, American, Professor Minerva McGonagall", and there will be no convincing me otherwise.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

The reason she needs bigger pockets to fit her microphone pack is that undetectable extension charms tend to mess with the delicate electronics.

@neuralmute 3 года назад

Even other cats envy her elegance.

@k1tkat-kate 3 года назад

THIS

@monicatruong1223 3 года назад

@@k1tkat-kate YES

@monicatruong1223 3 года назад

YES

@historiansrevolt4333 3 года назад

Bring back the pockets or we revolt at dawn!

@Thehistorylover101 3 года назад

How are you here at 23 hours when it was posted 29 minutes ago???

@hannahofhorror 3 года назад

@@Thehistorylover101 Probably Patreon

@lucie4185 3 года назад

I am always revolting before 7 am.

@overworkedkitten4399 3 года назад

Can we push the revolt to 3 or 4 pm? I get off work at dawn lol

@historiansrevolt4333 3 года назад

@@overworkedkitten4399 You can continue the revolt when we're all too tired.

@LH-ro2ot 2 года назад

My daughter's weren't sure about their new school blazers until I said "look, loads of pockets" 😁 I buy men's clothes when I can - the lack of pockets in women's clothes drives me nuts!

@Rozdlc 2 года назад

Been learning to sew lately and one of the first things I did was give a pair of jeans I have real pockets. (Fake pockets are seriously a crime) Can't tell you how thrilled I was when I saw how easily my phone fit into them.

@wolfkitteh 3 года назад

A decade or so ago I purchased a ladies coat with 22 pockets. I can still feel the glow from the envy of ladies around me as they watched me delve into them to find everything they had to put in their handbag to carry,

@alisoneccleston8673 3 года назад

I bought a coat that had 6 large pockets, never had to carry a purse while I wore it.

@returnoftheromans6726 3 года назад

Where can I find one?

@LavenderHazelwood 3 года назад

I need to see a picture of this coat!

@MuriKakari 3 года назад

I make use of sleeveless vests, generally bought in the men's department.

@captainfluffypaws7068 3 года назад

What is the brand of that coat???!

@LupineDawn 3 года назад

I’ve gotten so fed up with pockets lacking in my clothing that I modified 90% of my pre-existing clothes to have them using the cabbage I have. Additionally since I started making my own clothing I have total control of my pockets which makes me feel admittedly drunk with power.

@MossyMozart 3 года назад

@Aurora Sutch - The control of pocket-no pocket in women's clothing IS a power dynamic, isn't it?

@somebodyelse138 3 года назад

Me too. I also took a leaf out of Ms Banners book and created a tie on pocket for those skirts that simply won't take the addition of a sewn in pocket.

@susanrobertson984 3 года назад

It is not just pockets that make me drunk with power. It is hemlines. It is waists that are big enough for my non-standard shape. It is shoulders that fit my narrow shoulders and enough size for my big-ass boobs at the same time. It is fabrics that will hold up to wear and tear and in colours of my own choosing. Sewing is an act of rebellion in the modern world full stop.

@ronistitch6510 3 года назад

I alwayse make my pockets spitefully large and i cant wait to get to the end of the summer once we can get together and pull a bottle of wine from each pocket

@warriormaiden9829 3 года назад

@@susanrobertson984 Thy speech dost make this red-headed heart sing! Break out the thread and patterns! We revolt at dawn! XD Lol, I actually just got my sewing machine repaired a week or so ago. My grandma's old 60's Singer, and apparently a tiny little piece underneath had gotten bent just enough to screw with the tensioning when we moved. (The repair guy almost cried when he had to give my machine back. Apparently, few machines of that age pass through his shop in such good condition/repair. According to him, there wasn't a speck of dust on the internals. ...I'm thinking my hubby cleaned my machine for Christmas when I wasn't looking. XD) Plus, my ward kite-making project is done, so I no longer have that looming deadline. *cracks knuckles and cackles* Today, I will be pulling my machine out and giving my friends on Discord an impromptu sewing lesson as I buckle down on piecing together the quilt I've had squirreled away for the last 10 months! 🤣 Gotta get practicing before my son really hits his growing stride. Poor kid got the body dimensions of my side of the family. He's 5, and wears a 3T waist, 8 length in pants, and his shoulders need at least a size 7 shirt. My grandpa was 6'7"...and almost identical in dimensions (36" waist, 54" inseam pants. Was like someone put a pair of pants on a ladder and stuck a bear on top...), and my 17 yr old brother is already outgrowing his size 14 shoes. I dread when my son gets into middle/high school... 😭

@twothreebravo 3 года назад

"purely distilled passive rage" Aaaaaaand I'm subscribed.

@TheMotlias 2 года назад

I love the story about when Levi started making jeans for Women, back then they were made for working in so the men who designed them were practical and assumed the women using them would need big old pockets proportionally sized to the jeans like the men's i.e. fricking huge... but when they started getting popular casualwear and fashionable they brought in actual fashion designers who proceeded to make the pockets basically or actually non existent.

@weeveferrelaine6973 9 месяцев назад

As a man, I'd be offended if my jeans pockets couldn't fit the head, and enough handle of my medium-sized framing hammer in it, for it to stay balanced in. It's super annoying to be doing some casual construction work, and just barely not have enough hands for the work I'm doing.

@candicewaller403 3 года назад

"The pinnacle of insulting blasphemy that is the fake pocket!" - this right here is my favorite! I will quote it often. That is all.

@pinkajou656 3 года назад

The sacred texts

@aislingmurphy1822 2 года назад

Blasphemy is the perfect adjective

@Alpha_Synergy Год назад

Regardless of gender, fake pockets are the most insulting thing any designer can make. I bought a pattern for a "Pirate coat," and though it includes flaps for pockets, it does not include the pattern for a pocket. Why would you include a pocket flap then? This is for a costume; of course I still need pockets!

@candicewaller403 Год назад

@@Alpha_Synergy LOL! I've purchased that same pattern. Completely ridiculous. Luckily, I didn't have trouble adding in pockets under the flap, but damn, why just flaps and not pockets when we're going to the trouble of MAKING IT FROM SCRATCH?!

@angeldude101 Год назад

I would honestly rather have no pockets at all that have fake pockets. What's the point of adding pockets if you're not going to add pockets?

@NoonshadeDawnthief 3 года назад

After seeing your Victorian walking skirt video, I have slowly been adding or increasing the size of pockets to all my garments. I despise handbags because they inevitably become a portal to some dark dimension from which items never return unless you literally upend the thing. I've been able to actually wear clothes I would normally avoid because I've increased the pockets. Thank you for enlightening me to actually sensibly sized pockets!

@TrappedinSLC 3 года назад

I keep meaning to add pockets to my lounge pants.

@katherinemorelle7115 3 года назад

I’ve decided to change all my skirts so that I can have slits from which to access my new tie on pockets. Handbags do not work particularly well with wheelchairs, I have found. There is not enough gravity or room to keep them on one’s shoulder, and far too much to easily keep them on one’s lap. I despise handbags! But unfortunately, regular side seam pockets will also not do, as they are very difficult to access, with the sides of my wheelchair in the way. But thankfully, I have discovered that if I tie my pockets slightly to the front, I can then access them while in my chair. This discovery has changed my life, and I am now on a mission to co very all of my skirts to pocket wearing ability- rather than only wear my 18th century style petticoats. Which are great, but sometimes I want to wear my 1890s tartan walking skirt, you know?

@mariavictoriabonanzalabbao5329 3 года назад

Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES

@sturmykins 3 года назад

I've added a pocket to one of my favorite pocket-less skirts, and have plans to continue the crusade. It's a game changer.

@Wolfepup23 3 года назад

@@katherinemorelle7115 Ohhh....you and Bernadette need to get together to make a super nice walking skirt, modified for modern life, as it were. That would be an AMAZING episode.

@piecesofstarlight 2 года назад

You know what I just realised I need? Tie on pockets for gardening. I will just add it to my never ending list of things I need to sew but apparently unable to climb the wall of motivation and ADHD to do.

@hotjanuary 2 года назад

How about buying a ready made fanny pack? They have some nice ones made with real or fake leather-your choice.

@kata5182 2 года назад

One of my biggest disappointments in life are lack of pockets in women’s clothing!!!! Thank you for addressing this subject!

@helenyoung41 3 года назад

My husband worked for a while doing IT for a company who designed & manufactured the clothes for a large percentage of the UK high St. I begged him to ask them why women’s clothing had no decent pockets and the reply was ‘women still buy the clothes without pockets’. Yeah, my brain nearly exploded too.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

How are we to express a preference for clothes with good pockets when that isn’t among what is offered at all?

@handleless986 3 года назад

only boycott can solve this 😭

@katanah3195 3 года назад

@@handleless986 Go back to making our own clothing! Boycott (Or girlcott, since this boycott would involve only women and girls, lol) the whole bloody fashion industry! (Fashion should never have become an industry anyway, the Industrial Revolution ruined clothing, especially women's clothing.)

@harrybetteridge7532 3 года назад

This anti-pocket theme is creeping into mens clothing as well jackets and shirts that have fake non functioning pockets along with jeans and trousers where the internal section of the side pocket rips apart if used for more then a couple of coins. Sure there is the strange thrill as your loose change & keys slide down your leg into your shoe and the ability to adjust inner garments with ease but I would seriously consider a kilt & sporran if I had the legs for one.

@Emu19 3 года назад

@@harrybetteridge7532 Omg the wording for coins sliding down your legs gave me quote the giggle 😂 Thank you for this smile lol

@blondeviolet 3 года назад

I was on the elevator at work once and the other person with me complimented my dress, to which I naturally responded, "Thanks! It has pockets!" and being a man, he was baffled why this was a point of excitement for me. *facepalm* I don't know if the pocket challenges are getting any better, but even my latest pairs of pajama shorts have decent pockets, which I like mostly because then I have somewhere to put my left hand while brushing my teeth.

@nicolematthewson7253 3 года назад

My husband tells me that if a woman is complemented wearing an outfit with pockets it is your obligation to exclaim "Thanks, it has pockets" and then shove your hands into said pockets to punctuate your point. I think he's been paying attention :D

@JH-lz4dh 3 года назад

🤣

@trinamorrison2570 3 года назад

A family member has decided that if ever he opens a clothing store for women he's going to name it "Thanks it has pockets," and sell only items with pockets. Sadly he is an engineer rather than a fashion store owner.

@esm1817 3 года назад

@@trinamorrison2570 That's a winning business idea, right there!

@kerriskb19 3 года назад

@@trinamorrison2570 that just means he needs to engineer all the awesome garments with pockets - and have a business partner for all those other businessy things :) But this needs to be a thing...Women would flock there....I mean if we dare enter a place called "Dress Barn"- "Thanks, it has pockets" is a sure fire win! :)

@heartofthewild680 2 года назад

Anytime you use the words “purely distilled passive rage,” I immediately know this is gonna be good. And you did not disappoint. I absolutely agree with you and although I prefer sewn-in pockets for their security, I often wonder why they can’t still be as big as the tie-on ones (unless it’s a window pocket like the heart-shaped one in Morgan Donner’s pocket-sewing video, but even then they should still be very roomy) Side note: Are you related to Bertha Banner? Or is the last name just coincidence?

@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken Год назад

I recently made a hip bag (with an option to wear a leg belt with it), and the more I look, the more I realize history does move in cycles. I can fit a standard water bottle in it, along with my phone, wallet, keys, neat rock, ect. I also did figure out a pocket design that can work on light swooshy skirts and dresses, provided there's a good waistband. Mind, I've only worn a skirt once in the last 10 years, and avoid them like the plague

@karolinaahk 3 года назад

This video warms my heart so much! Since I got my first smartphone 5 years ago I managed to buy 1 (ONE) skirt with pockets that can actually carry such a "big" item. I had to learn how to sew to finally be in possesion of another such skirt. I'm going to bookmark this video and watch it every time I want to buy/sew a piece of clothing. Pockets are life!

@kellyvaters1689 3 года назад

*thrusts hand into 2010s jeans pockets only to find them deep enough for my fingers, remembering even tighter jeans in the 1980s and being able to reach halfway up my forearms* Now, I'm pissed.

@aleniksimmer9591 3 года назад

This! My older cousins' jeans despite fitting had huge pockets, in the new ones I can barely fit a lip balm tube :/

@featherquill9476 3 года назад

I was in such a state of disbelief I had to do some research and finding the truth, all I could say was “WhAt.” Over and over. I am appalled. Furious. Not only do most if not all modern reproductions of these jeans REFUSE to add the glorious dream of a forearm pocket despite the vacant need for doing so, but THEY MADE FAKE POCKETS FOR THESE TOO

@emjenkins464 3 года назад

I recently switched to wearing mostly 80s and 70s clothing and nearly all my clothes have pockets at least big enough for a larger phone or pen, lip balm, pill box, and several others.

@featherquill9476 3 года назад

@@emjenkins464 Where do you find them, I must know! (Also thrift store recommendations if you have em?)

@isabelle7830 3 года назад

@@featherquill9476 monki jeans have proper pockets! I can get a phone comfortably into the *front* jean pockets. It's game changing

@snickerbuckle 3 года назад

“Pocket related criminal activity”. A sentence that would normally be considered odd, yet completely within reason in one of your videos. And is totally my new band name.

@therussianprincess7036 3 года назад

...it does sound like a band.

@katanah3195 3 года назад

"Ms. Banner Out Of Context" definitely has good compilation potential. (And yes, I called her "Ms. Banner" b/c she totally sounds like a schoolteacher sometimes.)

@julietsrhino7079 3 года назад

I approve of both this comment and your user name :)

@MJkatzTheWriter 2 года назад

I absolutely LOVE listening to how Bernadette explains fashion history! Even now, I am smiling and chuckling while still acknowledging that I haven't a decent pocket in anything but an old winter coat!

@japai4323 3 года назад

Funny story: I know this shop were there is a lot of cheap clothes and the men/women section are not properly separate. I tried some vest and I was like "oh it have DEEP pocket and another pocket inside" It kind of looked "oversized" style but it was nice and cheap so I bought them ..... It's when I arrived home and showed them to my family that they told me it was men's vest....😅 That's definitely explains the pockets . I love them, really nice, practical, sturdy. I think I will go buy clothes in the man section more often 😆

@weeveferrelaine6973 9 месяцев назад

As a man, I think I'd be a little puzzled at first seeing you selecting clothes for yourself there, but if I heard you say "It's for the pockets" I'd absolutely love it. I love practicality, and that would be such a treat to witness.

@ineedmoresleep3728 3 года назад

It’s also important to note this is also largely a western thing. In parts of Asia even skirts and dresses have pockets. Girls school uniform skirts have pockets big enough to fit cellphones Even in non practical clothing such as Lolita dresses.

@megantee9356 3 года назад

In Asia I have to agree, even if some of them don't have pockets, many of them do, and I usually can stuff my wallet and handphone.

@lizadams7662 3 года назад

That's why I love my rayon pants made in Asia. Huge deep pockets, because they don't assume the wearer carries a purse. The western apology-for-pockets is a conspiracy with bag manufacturers.

@mangogo44 3 года назад

Pockets in lolita dresses? As lolita I disagree. Almost no brand makes dresses with pockets

@heidimichel 3 года назад

All my Angelic Pretty skirt and dresses have pockets. But I know it varies from brand to brand, I have BTSSB skirts that have pockets and some that don't. My IW pieces do not have pockets at all. I think it really depends on brand...

@mydreamjobismother 3 года назад

This suddenly explains why I very much appreciate the clothes gifted to me by an exchange student when she returned to Japan. I thought it was just the look but it seems the pockets also had something to do with it!

@emilyrimer9967 3 года назад

"Hey, What are you doing, are you busy? Wanna hang out?" "Super busy, yea. I'm watching a youtube video about pockets and it's riveting. Go on without me. i'm done for the day"

@rebeccahamm2349 3 года назад

A family member of my cousins was giving her some clothes and we were allowed to try on the clothes that didn't fit her. There was a skirt that fit so, I took it and BY GOD THE THING HAS REAL POCKETS!!

@NDAMusicRoom Год назад

Thank you profoundly for this eloquent presentation on pockets. I found this video in my 12 year old daughter’s feed and you are precisely the example of intelligent and educated women I hope she emulates.