Women’s clothing is no longer out of pocket. While men can usually carry their keys, wallet and phone around inside their clothing, ladies have been forced to buy handbags to hold their essential items while running errands or out on the town. But that is changing.
Both women’s workwear brands and high-fashion houses are creating clothing for the fairer sex which features deep pockets. Sali Christeson, a corporate banker in Chicago, founded Argent , a brand that keeps functional office attire at the forefront of its mission. The white collar worker created the company after being angered by the “maddening lack” of pockets in women’s clothing, forcing them to sprint back to their desks to fetch their purses before lunch breaks, “Pockets have become the hidden superpower in our collection,” she told the Wall Street Journal , as more women realize that what a girl wants — and needs — is more stashing space in clothes.
“Pockets inequality is a centuries-old form of gender bias,” Aditi Sinha, the co-founder of Seattle-based women’s workwear label Point of View , told Seattle Refined . “Only 5% of women’s pockets can fit a smartphone, compared to 85% of men’s pockets. On average, women’s pockets are 48% shorter and 6.
5% narrower than men’s pockets.” The Pacific Northwest brand is also tackling the pervasiveness of pocketless clothing by reimagining office attire for modern women, who, Sinha added, deserve to benefit from the ease and convenience .
