Clothing, like food, is political in ways we often don’t notice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Originally shared by Winchell Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Advancing the notion of pockets as distinctly masculine, one 1895 designer of women\u2019s 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 \u2018bones\u2019 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.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictured is a “chatelaine”, sort of a feminine Victorian version of Batman’s utility belt.<\/p>\n\n\n https:\/\/www.racked.com\/2016\/9\/19\/12865560\/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clothing, like food, is political in ways we often don’t notice.
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