Pocket Proposal
A personal proposal to pants purveyors. *
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A personal proposal to pants purveyors. *
And thanks to our Patreon patrons, this isn’t even the last ChaosLife of the week! Thanks everyone and stay tuned!
I couldn’t agree more with this! We definitely need bigger pockets.
Yeah. Then you look at male pants and you could practically fit 1/2 a woman’s purse supplies in some of them. Especially if they’re “cargo pants”. lol
Have you ever noticed that most companies that make women’s pants also make purses? Most men won’t buy bags, and will go elsewhere for pants that actually have big pockets, so the company keeps their male customers by providing “purse-substitute” sized pockets
As a teen I wore these cargo pants with pockets deep and wide enough you could quite literally get two forearms stuffed in there. A girl I was friends with thought it was hilarious, if we were walking side by side, to pretend she was going for that thing of having each person walk with their hand in the other’s opposite pocket, then ‘fall’ into the pocket as though she was being sucked in by it.
Her pockets? Couldn’t get a hand in there if you tried.
No kidding! I have to put everything in my butt pockets because that’s the only place anything will fit! Then you have to take everything out just to sit down.
Ants don’t use sleeping bags. When they go ‘camping’, it’s just a euphemism for orgies in the woods.
That’s just extreme. ‘In tents,’ even.
Why did people think those tiny pockets were a good idea in the first place!? Fake pockets are even worse!
I tell everyone that the best part about transitioning FTM is you get pockets, finally.
Are pocket’s REALLY the thing you were waiting for though?
If you’re referring to dicks, most ftms don’t bother.
My parents are extremely religious and pro rigid gender standards, so before I openly transitioned and got kicked out, I convinced them to let me wear men’s pants by saying it was just because the women’s jeans pockets were too small. Of course, this was after my and my sister’s prolonged war against mid-calf-or-longer skirts was eventually won…
I fully agree. Jeans with fake or tiny pockets, and so low-cut that you can’t sit down without mooning the person behind you…. >.<
Luckily, it's okay for a girl to wear guy jeans.
It’s all a conspiracy cooked up by handbag manufactures to create an artificial need for additional mobile storage capacity accessories
End the madness – Pocket equality now!
.. ok .. just me then .. I’ll .. I’ll just be over here turning down the crazy then
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, I kind of like being a walking pharmacy. Need ibuprofen? Got it. Antacid? Here ya go. Hand sanitizer? Right here. Ten bucks in loose change? Lemme rifle around a bit. A book? Don’t move the bookmark.
My theory as to why (or rather, How it came to be) that women carry purses is:
back in the day only men had pants. Pants have pockets so they can carry stuff. Women had to wear dresses but needed to carry stuff so purses became popular.
Then women could suddenly wear pants so they had generic sized pockets.
Bonus: But women kept the purses. Since they don’t need pockets that much I guess they shrunk the pockets to make them skinnier? I don’t get it, but as long as people keep buying them they will grow smaller and smaller.
I guess I am weird. I like the tiny pants. Gives me an excuse to carry my purse…
This is simply because women’s clothing is so sexualized. If it is in the “attractive body type” ranges, the clothing is made so tight and close-fitting, that you might just as well be naked, with denim-colored paint on.
One advantage of being “big” is they don’t bother. My jeans come with pockets – BIG ones 😀
Well, in the olden days of voluminous dresses , pockets still weren’t a part of feminine clothes. Or even male. There were fabric pockets you put on your belt, leather pouches, utility aprons, all sorts of doodlyhickies you just carried in your hands or precariously hung from your belt(s).. It’s silly to have a pocket in something like pants you want to last for a few years, since they go trough a lot more wear than the rest of the garment.
There is a certain intention hidden behind it. They make the pockets so small ON PURPOSE, so the women HAVE to buy HANDBAGS to carry their stuff.
They are after your money.
The solution: a swarm of actual pet bats! Think about it. One for the Keys, one for the cellphone (handsfree!), one for the change and one for the pure epicness of having pet bats and no actual need for any pockets! Or pants. Suckit clothing manufacturers!
It also shouldn’t be as ridiculously hard to find 36 inch leg jeans (especially with <=34 inch waist), size 13+ shoes, or long sleeve shirts that would fit a particularly long-armed individual without also assuming he's fat as the third circle of hell, but hey…
Which is why I end up taking guy jeans, (cheap holy ones from the goodwill) and cutting off the pockets (with the waistband) and with a quick sew around, walla! instant pockets I can put over any of the ridiculous pants that don’t have them.
*Voila, not walla. It’s a french word.
but then they cant sell you the purse
All I want for Christmas is the ability to fit my whole hand into my pockets…
My daughter is already railing against this. I quite agree!
Tangentially related: Cool wallet you got there.
Not just the pockets, where did the quality denim go? And since when is “high waisted” about the height of a normal waist from ten years ago? And why is it so impossible to find something that fits at the waist and the hips? Aaargrgblrgh, rage of not having found a proper pair of jeans in over ten years…
That’s why I only own one pair of women’s jeans.
They’re actually small on purpose, to discourage women from putting things in the pockets, and “ruining the line of the hip” with unsightly bulges. Even so, it’s irritating.
You would say this phenomenon is as frustrating as having ants in your pants.
NY&co has really comfy jeans with actual usable pockets! Also have curvy, reg, and slim fit in sizes 2-18 I think. All come in petite, average, or tall lengths as well. They are seriously the company with the widest range of pants sizes I could find. Plus, POCKETS! I can almost forgive them their excessively airbrushed models… S
I have been saying this for years. I think if a company started making women’s pants and advertised them as having pockets as large as the ones in men’s jeans, they’d sell crazy well.
my god I couldn’t agree more there’s a reason I use my braw for storing things because clothing manufactures hardly even make pockets any more heck most pants come without now days and it drives me nuts! makes me want to cut holes in there fake pocket of there’s and make them into real pockets.
Love the comics. Speaking as a web developer, I get the “OCD” compulsion to point out that your previous comic button is showing part of the second image on the sprite sheet. I think you could fix it by resizing it so that it matched your next button (180px wide). I think it just needs more transparent padding. Keep up the great work!
There’s a section in the ‘About’ page about this. See: “Your “Back” Button! The Arrow Is Weird and Squiggly! I HATE IT!!!”
I go for dickies brand pants/jeans. They are meant to be work pants, so they hold up a bit better, and they have decent pockets.
Also, sometimes “fake pockets” are actually just sewn shut in the store. You can go at them w/ a seam ripper and then you have a real pocket. Check first, though, because sometimes they really are fake, and you’ll just have a pocket hole with no pocket if you do that.
yes! I always struggle with this problem
I wear “men’s” pants exclusively, but when I wore women’s clothes I hated this with a passion. I never fixed my pockets but I think I would try this now:
http://www.rootsimple.com/2013/05/why-are-the-pockets-on-womens-clothing-so-lame/
I think it’s just a matter of practicality. Woman’s jeans are so tight that if they had pockets big enough for a phone, you wouldn’t be able to sit down with the phone in them.
they do that so you’ll buy handbags!
As a short man (who is wanting to transition mtf) I can forgive the loss of pockets.. for pants that will actually be in my size. For some.. odd reason.. 28 inch inseams have ceased to exist. and29 inch with a 30 inch waistband are only found in a few cuts. I asked an employee for help.. once.. she literally told me to go look in the “little boys” section. I think it was the tone of it mostly.. but it felt both embarrassing and insulting. Thankfully.. I have found womens jeans that at least fit correctly… just you know… the whole closet thing.. -_-;
I actually buy my jeans on Amazon because finding men’s jeans in an odd numbered waist size is annoying if not impossible. I wear a 33Wx32L right now. Ideally I need a 31L pant, but that’s just impossible so I don’t even try. 😛
I wish I could do that XD But I went factory direct.. and they just don’t produce 28 inch inseams anymore. Oddly.. I have found 32 inch waists in most sizes/styles with the 29 inch legs.. but no 30x29s except in certain cuts… though with odd numbers.. I’m guessing custom cuts? or tailored?
I feel the same way about the current crop of waistcoats (vests) that have come on the market ever since they became a hipster thing. No more real pockets. The pockets of a waistcoat are supposed to deep enough to at least be able to handle a good sized pocket watch.
This is why I’ve been wearing men’s pants since I was in middle school. In elementary school, I had girl’s cargo pants that actually had pockets but then, suddenly, all the “cargo” pants had these little tiny things that I couldn’t put anything in.
To the men complaining about having trouble finding the right length: Consider yourselves lucky that there is even a length in your clothing. Most women’s clothes have none. If we’re lucky there’s a petite, regular, tall. We don’t get numbers for length.
MTF here, and I how you feel. Large pockets are one of those things you don’t appreciate enough until you realize they’re gone.
Yup, most annoying about being Trans*. I just ripped my only pair of nice girl jeans with real pockets, I almost cried.
That’s what bras are for. 😀
I actually broke my phone’s screen by sticking it in my pocket for about 2 seconds to stir dinner. They were not even that tight! Then about a week later a garbage truck ran over my phone and did LESS damage to it.
Finally got a new phone when it stopped charging…
Half the reason I changed to trekking pants. So comfy, and gallons of pocket space. I can fit a small tablet into three out of five pockets (maybe all of them, but I’d lose on mobility) if it’s out of it’s cover, and only lose one with the cover. My brother could do that in his formal wear. I wonder what their priorities look like!
Second is that I went to every store that sold jeans anywhere near me and they only had skinny jeans. Who looks good in those? Just give me some options, so I can get a pair that looks good on me that I feel comfortable in.
Actually the pockets are that big so men can adjust and or scratch their balls without getting a whole lot of attention.I learned this from all my guy friends who seem to constantly have to adjust in public, especially when doing activities. As a trans guy I’m very happy about those large pockets because I always have to constantly adjust my packer which I guess is similar to what a lot of cis guys do in general. I think the bag thing could also be an explanation, but it definitely isn’t what a lot of guys use it for. None of cis male friends put anything in the pocket, maybe a cellphone, but usually the have some sort of back pack or over the shoulder bag that they keep everything in when our women friends aren’t around(we keep everything in their purse, shit is like Mary Poppins).
This is why I buy jeans in the boys section, yet I cringe every time someone calls them “boyfriend” jeans