Clothing, like food, is political in ways we often don’t notice.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
Advancing the notion of pockets as distinctly masculine, one 1895 designer of women’s bicycle “costumes” even included pockets for pistols. “Not all of them want to carry a revolver,” says the anonymous tailor quoted by the New York Times, “but a large percentage do and make no ‘bones’ about saying so. Even when they do not tell me why they want the pocket, they often betray their purpose by asking to have it lined with duck or leather.”
Pictured is a “chatelaine”, sort of a feminine Victorian version of Batman’s utility belt.
https://www.racked.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women
I have spent some time contemplating this question
“what was the first need of a pocket?”
Many would answer “money”.
I think perhaps gatherings of nuts and seeds
Is a pocket only a permanently attached purse?
Holds tools – similar to a flint mapper.
I think the first “human tool” was a toothpick. . . or maybe it was a fork?
Forks appeared surprisingly late. Renaissance, I think.