Shoutout to the guy who told me 'pockets ruin the line' of a dress

I was at a local design meetup in Portland last week, and a guy spent ten minutes explaining why functional pockets in women's wear are a design flaw. He said they 'compromise the silhouette'. My crew and I work with actual function every day, and that logic is like saying a pipe shouldn't have threads because it looks cleaner. A good design solves both. Has anyone else had to argue for basic utility like this?

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lily_schmidt536mo ago

I used to think that way about pockets too, but seeing how Claire McCardell did it really changed my mind. She proved you can have both.

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jason7526mo ago

Check out how she even put pockets in evening gowns, which is pretty wild for the 1930s.

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sarahc536mo ago

That guy's take is so tired. Just tell him to look up Claire McCardell's work, she solved that problem like 80 years ago.

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