The Hindustan Times: As we find ourselves in the midst of the fourth wave of feminism, here’s hoping that bringing pockets to everyday women’s clothing will become a glorious moment of victory for this movement.
It’s ridiculous, really. Here we are, 18 years after the turn of the century, talking about the viability of terraforming on Mars, and we still haven’t fixed one of the most fundamental problems right here on earth. Women’s clothing still has a glaring lack of pockets. Even Hillary Clinton’s famous white pantsuit (that was seen as a hat tip to the suffragette movement) at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 had no pockets. It was pants and a blazer, like any man, except with no pockets. She has been called a “power dresser” and credited with having “looked presidential” in her signature pantsuits. But they have no pockets.
This is not just a question of sartorial aesthetics. Where would she keep her phone? Or her notes?
When the iPhone finally embraced a larger screen size, women wrote hopefully about a shift in fashion design, hoping that the ridiculously small, decorative, horribly irritating pockets in women’s jeans would finally have to adapt to the changing design of the iPhone.
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