No Pockets! Why? How to Add Pockets outfit 638

 Possible Pockets To Add

I want to add pockets. I like pockets. I sometimes search for items with pockets, two pockets, or with multiple pockets, or secure pockets, or hidden pockets.

Hide Valuable Items In Pockets

Pockets can hide items. When travelling, your handbag might be stolen, or left behind. It could fall off a left down a clifside or into a waterfall. It's handy to have a pocket for important items, valuables such as credit cards.

Pockets Keep Items Handy

Things you want handy, such as bus passes, identity cards, passports. train tickets. 

Substitute For Pockets - Lanyards

Yes you can put an identify card in a lanyard. But that spoils the look of your outfit, especially if you have wording or a picture on the front of your tee shirt or top. Even a bow or collar can be caught up in the ribbons of a lanyard.

Indigo Moon Without Pockets

Neither the skirt nor the jacket, nor the tee-shirt, of my Indigo Moon outfits have pockets.Why? 

I googled 'why no pockets in Indigo Moon clothes?' I found nothing about Indigo Moon. But I found lots of entries about women's clothes not having pockets and why.

Saving The Cost Of Pockets

My first thoughts were: To save fabric? A side seam pocket needs two pieces of fabric. An outside, on top pocket needs only one piece.  The sort you get on the front of shirts. I hate the lopsided look. I prefer two pockets, one each side on the outside.

Modern cut price clothes are made n a piece work basis. Instead of empolying staff in a large factory shop, paying them all a standard wage, and rearding those who produce more, maybe staff work from home and are paid each time they hand in a garment. Therefore, a garment with fewer extras such as pockets and sleeves is made quicker and cheaper, and by novices who expect lower pay.

On the other hand pockets can be a selling point of a garment, a line, or the entire set or ranges from a manufacturer or department store. I expected clothes from Marks and Spancer to have pockets. You expect Levi jeans to have pockets.

Also certain styles. A ski jacket must have inside pockets to proect items from getting lost in snow or dropped off ski lifts into snow drifts. Also outside pockets do you can reach for things quickly without opening the front of your entire zip to expose yourself to cold weather or rain. And to produce your pass without holding up the whole queue (Americans say line up).

Although I prefer a pocket hanging inside from a slit. That would be in need of two pieces. Altogether stronger. 

Handbags Versus Pockets

Answers I found online were To support the handbag industry?

Nonsense. I would still buy handbags to carry big items like lunch boxes and bulky make up bags. 

What is the point of small pockets?

Small pockets can take a hanky.  You are likely to want a hankie in a hurry if you feel a sneeze coming on.

But the real reason I want pockets, which I leave empty, is to put my hands in them. I remember reading that pockets were sewn up in the free uniforms supplied in the early 1900s at the large Jewish Free School in the East End of London. The reason was to stop the children slouching. So why were pockets provided. Maybe after children got used to standing smartly, the pockets could later be undone in the cold winter to keep your hands warm when sitting immobile in cold classrooms. 

My late father, born 1912, said he would take a hot potato to school for his lunch, and keep his hands warm on the potato. Was the potato in his pocket? It had to be a large enough pocket to take a potato.

Before the era of credit cards, pockets would hold coins. When people stand up to speak at a meeting, it is very annoying when they clink coins and keys in their pockets, a nervous habit.Maybe that is the origin of the word pocket money. Small coins to go in your pocket for small purchases of snack food or reviving drinks.

Saving Pockets

If a garment is old, torn, stained, so that you are throwing it away, or cutting it up. look for pocket.

Pocket Patterns

You can buy pockets to insert from the nations sections of fabric shops and department stores. Or online. Then you don't need a pattern. Just the correct size of slit cut in the seam of your garment.

DIY Pockets

Starting from scratch, you could make a paper or newspaper pattern, slightly larger than you need to allow for seaming and sewing into the garment. You could take a garment which has pockets the right size. Use those pockets for your new pockets, adding the seam allowance. 

Another way is to take a glove, and allow extra room for manouvre, like a mutten. If you bunch your hands into a fist, the room needed is greater.