Vent: I always thought pockets in women's clothes were just a style choice...
I was reading a book about clothes from the 1800s and it said something that really got me. It said that for a long time, women's dresses didn't have pockets at all. They used these little bags tied around their waist under their skirts instead. The book said it was partly because showing a pocket bulge was seen as not proper. I found this at the library in a book called 'The Hidden History of Everyday Things'. It made me realize pockets weren't just left out to make a line look better... it was an old rule about what women should look like. Now when I sketch a dress, I think about that. I'm putting pockets in everything now, even fancy stuff. It feels like fixing an old mistake. Has anyone else run into a historical fact that changed how they design?