Post to r/memes by u/McTavishSoap, only text in message reads “Legend of Zelda”. Image below it contains two image, first image reads “Girl’s pockets” with a picture of a pocket small enough to fit an index finger in next to it. Second image reads “Boy’s pockets” with an inventory screen from Legend of Zelda right next to it.
Inb4 some people say ‘women voted with their wallets’, no we did not get to vote.
If you think we get to choose what size of pockets we get for pants that fit us without being uncomfortable, you have not shopped for women’s clothing as a woman, ever.
When women buy pants, it’s like bringing a random metric screw to an imperial hardware store hoping to buy a nut that fits and also all the labels are written in some alien language. The words ‘size 8’ never mean the same thing on any two pairs of pants.
Here are some common issues we encounter. It’s not as simple as ‘oh women are just vain and want pants that are a tight fit’. Women don’t get the nice 33"x34" measurements that men get in spite of needing standardization more than ever, partly because it’s nigh impossible to standardize the wide variety of hip and waist sizes women have and how it changes throughout the month. It’s always ‘these pants are perfect except’:
My hips are to big to pull these pants up
My hips are too small and now I have to wear a belt with 2 inches of fabric uncomfortably bunching up in the back
My legs are too long and my ankles are cold
My legs are too short and the pants are touching the floor
My waist is too big so the pants are choking me when I sit down
My waist is too small and now the same belt problem happens
There are no belt loops for jeans
I have PCOS belly and belts hurt to wear
I have sensory issues and I cannot stand belts of the feeling of bunched up fabric
The cut is too low and my bum is showing
The cut is too high and my abdomen is choking
My thighs are too fat and so I can’t sit down in these jeans without discomfort
These jeans are too inflexible or small to accommodate days when I am bloating
There are no pockets
There are tiny pockets
There are fake pockets
So please, I beg of you, don’t commit bullshit about how ‘women chose this’. We did not.
Unpopular opinion but to me it’s a blessing that female pants don’t have pockets. It fits way better and I never forget to remove stuff when washing. And it’s uncomfortable to have stuff in those pockets. My purse has way more space any way.
If you have to ask that i think you should be proud of the size of yours, because mine is certainly not impressive enough to cause issues with tight pants and i’m smack dab average.
Women’s clothing is more form fitting, so pockets are reduced in order to avoid deforming the figure with pocket lumps + women wear ginormous purses anyway. If you want clothing with deep pockets, sporting goods store feature women’s cargo pants.
(I know it’s a joke, it’s just I’m tired of seeing it).
The downside of women's cargo pants, is that you're no longer able to complain about the lack of pockets caused by your choice to buy more form fitting clothes.
To this day, I have no idea why there isn’t a local service to mod deeper pockets in women’s clothing. If I was a proper tailor, I’d probably start such service myself, but every time I openly mention that such service would probably be profitable, everybody goes “Yeah, I’d be using that service”, but never anyone who can actually do the job, rises to the ocasion and starts a bussines.
So if you’re reading this, and can handle your needle and thread, here’s a bussiness idea: take a small fee to cut open, and expand pockets in clothes there have fake pockets.
Yeah, they do, but theu’re not as readily available as one would think. They also don’t advertise this possibility, if they even take such jobs (Many don’t like to take on your standard wallmart jeans etc. for one reason or another). On top of that, I’d imagine that they’d take surprisingly large sums from such “extraordinarily custom modifications”.
What I’m proposing is specializing your sidehustle to this “one trick pony”, that is basically just making people realize that fake pokets can be turned in to a real pocket. This would provide a seamsperson quick small jobs as long as fake pockets are being made. And judging by the fashion industry, it will be a long time before they realize that those pockets don’t need to be fake.
This is more of “call to arms” to “fight the power”.
Any tailor that does alterations already provide such a service. You just need to request it. They don’t specifically advertise that they can make bigger pockets
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