[Interactive Website] Comparison: Women's Pockets Vs Men's Pockets

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Link: Comparison: Women's Pockets Vs Men's Pockets

 

There are few things more frustrating than collecting your belongings only to realize that the pockets in your pants are too small to hold them. Or worse, the fabric designed to look like a pocket is merely for decoration and doesn’t open at all.

 

For wearers of women’s clothes, this struggle is so real. You don’t have to look far to find Twitter-rants, articles, and videos in which people are either complaining about not having pockets or rejoicing over that rare gem that is the “dress with pockets”. And sure, we could all carry handbags, which is likely what the 8 billion dollar purse industry hopes we’ll do, but not everyone wants to carry a bag. Afterall, men’s pants pockets are basically the pockets of our dreams.

 

But, like so many things on the internet, we could find complaints and anecdotes galore but little data illustrating just how inferior women’s pockets really are to men’s. So, we went there.

 

We measured the pockets in both men’s and women’s pants in 20 of the US’ most popular blue jeans brands. Take a look at what we found...

[elsiegee40]

My first reaction was “what pockets?” We women don’t even get them half the time

[mikeprice]

Most men that I know wouldn't buy trousers with no pockets - or very small pockets - we have grown up expecting to have usable pockets and our life depends on them (well - not really but without a handbag we need them so socially we are forced to have useful ones)

 

It just seems like this has become a standard thing that men expect whereas women's clothes designers have been able to get away without thinking about them - which helps because they can then make the lines smoother - hence the trousers look better

[mavhc]

I think it's to force women to learn how to sew, a conspiracy to keep them in traditional jobs. Surely someone can just make some with pockets, and make a fortune advertising that fact