Gender pocketics

Not giving women handy pockets, implies her being is more about style than substance

I have a bone to pick with people who design clothes for women. They don’t seem to believe that, like men, women, too, need pockets in which something can actually fit. I would understand if they occasionally did away with this essential element in, say, skirts and dresses, but what explains the absence of usable pockets in everyday-wear jeans for women? Why do even my comfy-fit, boot-cut jeans not have pockets worth being called so?

And this has been my gripe for a while now. Back in the 1980s, the decade of abominable fashion, we made do with the ungainly baggy