It’s just a handy place to put my phone down for a second. Or stash a pen or a credit card.
I highly recommend everyone read Invisible Women. It’s full of interesting anecdotes like you’ve just identified.
https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/
Modern smartphones are too big for women’s pockets and too big for their average hand size so as a result women are far more likely to drop phones and incur unnecessary expense of replacing them. Our world is simply designed around a male default and apparently we just accept that.
Working in the service industry, I have refused boob-money before. It’s very gross to keep something there that you intend to hand other people.
Agreed! I don’t put bills there for that reason. I used to be the finance director for a large community event, very cash dependant. And we definitely got nasty sweaty boob money, money soaked in beer, you name it. The cash counting machines had trouble with it, so a lot had to be hand counted. Handling so much cash with mystery wetness was one of the less pleasant aspects of the job.
Women, buy cargo pants if you need pockets. Tell the haters to buy you whatever they’d rather see you in or fuck off
It’s funny, my wife and 4 year old daughter both have the same giddy reaction to seeing pockets on a super cute dress hahaha
This is funny to me. I’m a guy, but I’ve known this since I was in highschool and I noticed my lady friends doing it.
The worst was once I saw someone drop change coins down there lol
Ew don’t put your credit card there if you hand it to people
PLEASE don’t put your phone in your bra. It’s odd, I found articles talking about no increased chance, but also remembered hearing about it in the news years ago, and saw these:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7605549/ “Excessive smartphone use significantly increased the risk of breast cancer, particularly for participants with smartphone addiction, a close distance between the breasts and smartphone, and the habit of smartphone use before bedtime.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3789302/ “All [4] patients regularly carried their smartphones directly against their breasts in their brassieres for up to 10 hours a day, for several years, and developed tumors in areas of their breasts immediately underlying the phones.”
Really? I was taught to because if someone mugs me for money it becomes a felony instead of misdemeanor pickpocketing. I was pickpocketed once from a purse and never again, goes in the bra every time.
Now think how flat chested women feel, even the bra is non functional as pocket
Holy. Shit.
Ok, product idea: a bra that’s a size or more too large, containing a actual pockets. The pocket would be in the padding, to disguise that there’s something other than breast in there.
A-cups would be envied for their ability to carry man-pocket levels of stuff.
Tell me someone’s already done this. It’s so elegantly beautiful a concept.
Do you mean the PocketBra®
Dang. Yes. It’s such a good idea it’d have been a shock of someone hadn’t already done it.
Over 10 years ago I remember watching this fashion series on TV, a kind of reality TV type thing you’d watch if there was nothing better to do. There was this… very old French woman as part of the main host. Apparently she was some sort of fashion design bigwig in Paris. But she said something like:
“Women should never have pockets. Clothes should accentuate the most powerful thing we have, which is the feminine form. Pockets ruin this. To be womanly is to carry a handbag.”
I remember thinking to myself what a load of pretentious bullshit fashion must be.
Not to mention that she’s also meaning that all women should only care about looking beautiful and attractive, fuck practicality
Also ridiculous to think no one can come up with pockets that are flattering. Get creative old French lady
One of my school friends made some extra money during 6th form by offering to sew new, bigger pockets in various girls clothing. On average she did about 5 pairs of jeans a week at about £15 per pair. She went on to do fashion design at uni and now runs her own small business and despite branching out to do so much more stuff one of the services she kept doing was pocket replacements and extensions.
Many women found an alternative solution in carrying a small bag with them everywhere.
How did you just realise this? I would’ve thought lack of pockets would be the sole reason you would use your bra.
You won’t realise a lack of something easily when you’ve never lived in abundance.
I thought breast support was the reason they use a bra.
Lack of pockets would be the sole reason if I used a bra.
That’s one of the reasons they use a bra in general (the other one is nipple masking, that’s why even women with small breasts that don’t need any support wear them). Lack of pockets is the reason they “carry things in their bra”.
It’s always just been obvious to me. I’ve heard many people say this, too.
Some types of woman clothing can’t be made with pockets, mini/micro skirts and leggings for example, so using another available storage space is only logical.
Leggings can be made with flat pockets on the outer side of hips. I personally have a couple of minis with pockets. Those are just hard to find gems.
I actually have some leggings that have bigger pockets then most male jeans (able to fully contain 2 16floz cans per pocket)
Oh cool, I was not aware of that. Thank you for informing and correcting me!
It’s to hide weapons to fight against the patriarchy
