I seriously couldn’t live without cargo pants. At any given time, I’ll have at least 4 pockets filled with random stuff. But no pockets? How do you even survive?
I know a lot of seamstresses, from quilters to knitters to stitchers.
Without fail, if they make their own clothes, they add pockets.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of clothes, must be in want of pockets.
Double dipping with purses, executives often being men, and clothes looking svelter without pockets.
Same kinda logic as people who complain about ads saying that they’d rather pay for the service, instead of ads. The reality is only about 1% ever do pay. I assume it’s similar for clothing, where most people naturally gravitate towards the clothes that look ‘best’, even if they don’t have pockets.
Reading these comments, I’m starting the think I’ve been doing the whole “dating profile” thing wrong. Clearly I need to mention I have some experience making and altering clothes, which includes enlarging or adding pockets to anything.
Everything else on there fluff compared to the ability to give a woman functional pockets.
“Anyone get get you coffee, but I can give those pants you love pockets” would honestly draw my attention. Funny in a non-crude way, expressing a creative hobby (conversation topic!) that solves a problem that women actually complain about (versus what is said they want)? Not a bad intro!
Just made myself a new skirt, even the sewing pattern came without pockets. I put massive ones in anyway.
Is it feasible and somewhat worth it to make your own clothes? It sounds like mass-produced ones would be much cheaper, I’m wondering how much it costs to make including manhours
Kinda depends. I’m still relatively beginner so I make a lot of stuff from thrifted fabrics, for example I just made a matching top and skirt from a bedding set that cost me 50p. Obviously it does take time but I enjoy it so don’t begrudge time spent, plus I’m getting much faster with more practise!
But it’s also the fact that you’re learning to make things that actually fit you, and that work for you. So they’re not wearing through on parts that are too tight, or being forgotten in the bottom of the wardrobe because you don’t feel comfy in them. And if anything does start to fall apart, you’ve got the skills to repair.
I know a lot of sewists who make themselves very expensive items, but they know what they’re doing and are making much better quality clothes than you’d get in a shop so they’ll last basically forever.
Fabric can be really expensive, so making stuff from scratch can add up. It’s very thrifty to repair and alter your own clothes, however. Replacing lost buttons or broken zippers, making too-large items fit better, etc.
For really nice stuff, it’s cheaper than buying at the store. I made my wedding dress from scratch and spent maybe $300 and it took maybe 10 days to come together. Most simple garments might take 10-20 hours.
It’s like starting from scratch with every hobby: if you run out and buy the best of the best for every occasion without dipping a toe in, first, you’re going to be deep in the red for a while, if not until you run out of steam.
You can get a T shirt for $5-15 easily, but aside from bigger sizes/mens and womens, there’s not much deliberate variation you’ll see in mass produced stuff, so if you want clothes to really fit you, it helps to learn how to either alter them or make them yourself.
There are plenty of kits you can buy that have sewing patterns ready made. Here is an example. You follow the instructions and the patterns have some leeway in terms of customization. Play around with those and you start to figure out how the changes you make affect the clothing and how it fits.
Purses. Yes it sucks.
More and more I’ve been seeing backpacks (small & some regular sized) or occasionally sling bags (single strap backpacks with less storage that sling across back). Honestly those make more sense, even if they’re not as “fashionable”.
i would forget the bag everywhere i cant remember shit like that. i bump my pockets to make sure everything is there every 30 seconds. i feel like I’m gonna lose something at all times without a zipper pocket
I believe that the most heroic thing about Kim Possible is that she wears cargo pants.
But you know when you finally have to wash your pants because the spaghetti sauce is getting noticable from afar and you go to pull all the stuff out and it takes up your whole desk then you put on some other pants and only put half the stuff back in because you didn’t need half that crap anyways? What we all need is detachable pockets. Make a bag, slap some Velcro on the back, maybe a shoulder strap, a zipper, a pattern with some letters signaling the pedigree of the item. It would be revolutionary! You could make big ones with straps for your back, small ones for your waist with a classic pastel swoosh, idk. For real though those modular cargo pants that turn into shorts, I would most definitely buy three pairs of those with zip off pockets just so I don’t have to do the stuff shuffle all the time. Plus you could actually make specialized pockets. Insulated food pocket, anti static electronics pocket, mesh pocket for … Idk the beach or something? Vacuum sealed pocket, hamster pocket, tater tots pocket… The possibilities are endlesS :P
They’re called belt pouches and were the shit in medieval times. They came in all shapes and sizes, some very specific designs, some more general, for all kinds of ourposes. There were even belt-books and coin purses. I mean, the T-shirt brought back the tunic, so why not let’s all switch back to long but airy robes and a belt with two pouches?
Adding to this, for a very long time in history, women’s pockets were a seperate garment and all long skirts and dresses would simply have slits so you could access them, you basically wore two bags left and right on a seperate belt under your clothes.
What are you, a kangaroo?
