Lets Talk Pockets!

Aya's haiku of the week:

 

How many kittens

fit in the Adelia?

Perhaps three kittens! 

 

 

Let’s talk pockets.

The magical pouches of fabric that allow us to carry personal belongings on our body.

I love pockets, and so does everyone here at Folly! We jokingly measure our clothes with deep pockets by asking how many kittens we think could fit inside. Pockets are great: having a place to put my phone and other small items is both helpful and convenient, simple as that. So why is it so rare to find dresses and skirts with pockets? And why are pockets in men's clothing so much deeper than women's pockets if there are any at all?

I cant count the times I've been shopping with friends and when they notice the dress they're trying on has pockets, they'll announce with surprise "it even has POCKETS!" And I can bet that you, the reader, have heard another woman say this too. Its a well known observation amongst women or anyone shopping for women's clothes to notice the lack of pockets.

Today I asked Sarah if she knows why pockets on women’s clothes are notoriously small compared to pockets on men’s clothes. She said “I have a book on that!” So here I am writing this, with a book next to me called “POCKETS, An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close."

There's a long history to pockets and a long answer to the question of why women's clothes do not have them. The long answer short is (you guessed it) misogyny.
 

We don't like misogyny here at Folly, and we don't put it into our clothes. We make clothes for all different body types and different people. Who are we to limit what other people want to wear on their bodies? Doing so wouldn't be very #follygirl of us.

We wanted dresses with pockets, so we made dresses with pockets.

For any other pocket lovers out there, come on down to Folly on Fremont St. We have dresses (and pants and jackets too) with pockets with your name on them! Well, not literally your name on them, but they will have their name on them...right now we have in stock the Midge, Daisy, Tate, and Tina dresses.

 

 

 

Wishing you a weekend full of folly,
Aya