| Contents |
Introduction -- Pocket origins : "carried close and secret" -- Pocket proliferation : housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen" -- Pocket attitudes : "but what do your hands do in your pocket?" -- Pocket sexism : "why we oppose pockets for women" -- Pocket inventories : "not a penny was there in it" -- Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value" -- Pocket utopias : dreaming of a pocketless world. |
| Abstract |
"A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? Why are the pockets on women's clothes too small to be practical-- if they open at all? Carlson examines issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power and privilege-- all tucked inside our pockets. This takes a look at the social- and design-history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today. Will we still want pockets in the future when our clothes contain "smart" textiles that incorporate our IDs and credit cards? -- Adapted from jacket |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-283) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Carlson, Hannah (Historian). Pockets. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2023] 9781643755489 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023006501 |
| ISBN | 9781643751542 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1643751549 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (Ebook) |
