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Have you ever tried to use the pockets in a pair of women's pants? If it isn't secretly a fake pocket, then it probably can't carry a phone. Why? In this video, Sabrina dives into the history of pockets to fact check the famous conspiracy that women's pockets are just small to sell more purses. Along the way, she figures out why women never got proper pockets but finds an answer that works for her.
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Sabrina
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Melissa
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Taha
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CREDITS
Produced by Sabrina Cruz
Video Editing by Joe Trickey
Sound Design by Joe Trickey
Special Thanks to Glory Allan and Ria Kapoor
MUSIC
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RECOMMENDED READING
Women's Pockets are Inferior By Jan Diehm & Amber Thomas
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives by Barbara Burman & Ariane Fennetaux
TUTORIALS I USED
Medieval Pouch: https://dungeondesigns20.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/how-to-make-a-leather-drawstring-pouch-with-free-pdf-pattern/
Tie-on Pockets: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/make-your-own-pockets
Reticule / Purse: https://redshoesredwine.com/sewing-regency-reticules/
Suffragette-style Pants: https://www.moodfabrics.com/blog/mdf144-the-aster-pants/
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 a women's pocket-sized rant
00:32 my prefrontal cortex has robbed me of whimsical conspiracies
01:34 fact-checking myself
01:55 i was right (probably)
02:26 loitering at the thrift store
02:51 paying the bills
03:47 putting my $900 Adobe subscription to good use
04:26 i was right (now statistically significant)
05:22 taha discovers sexism
06:23 taha leans into his discovery
08:13 is there a women's pocket conspiracy?
08:36 are women's pockets just an unfortunate case of evolution?
08:55 let's find out
09:14 what do good pockets actually look like?
09:40 why can't I have this incredibly achievable goal?
10:00 let's go to the library
10:31 and then the fabric store because we're making pockets
10:52 the origin of pockets
12:18 the problem with the original pocket
12:28 when men's and women's pockets diverged
14:12 wait these are amazing... so why did they vanish
14:47 oH NO, IT WAS BRIDGERTON?!
16:08 the irony of the purse conspiracy
16:26 a brief aside to acknowledge nuance
16:49 the fight for women's rights (to pockets)
18:51 those suffragettes were onto something
19:30 how industrialization killed the evolution of women's pockets
20:44 accepting defeat
20:57 sike! this is answer in progress
21:08 maybe the real Big They were the jeans we altered along the way
21:29 how to steal men's pants' pockets
23:10 everypocket everywhere all at once
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