It turns out that the pants pocket – something that seems to have little use value has such a long history.
What are your pants pockets for? It’s too simple, holds almost the whole world: phone, wallet, keys, “raincoat” , food… But that’s just the answer of the boys, what about the girls? It is nothing or very little, because their pockets are mostly small, difficult to fit anything.
Even sometimes it’s just a bag… a fake has absolutely no use value other than to be beautiful. Why is there such a big difference?
Flipping through the nearly… 400-year history of the women’s pocket, let’s see if we can find the answer.
The first men’s bag appeared in the 1600s. It took almost a hundred years for the women’s bag to appear, which is not really a bag anymore.
While men’s pockets were sewn on the inside of clothes until now, women’s bags are just a loose bag that is wrapped around the waist and tucked under a petticoat.
The pocket is sewn on the inside of the dress.
If you’ve ever seen movies about the Middle Ages, you’ll see that European women wear a lot of frills and layers. The petticoat mentioned above rests on a layer of panties and long petticoats, under the outer skirt layer. So wearing a bag right underneath has almost no use.
You almost have to be “naked” if you want to get the contents of the bag.
You almost had to be “naked” (in that sense) if you wanted to get to the contents of the bag. That’s also why this bag is like a sexy symbol when only a girl’s husband or lover knows what’s inside her bag.
Through the 1700s, women’s inner bags gradually became more beautiful and intricate with decorative hand embroidery in vogue.
Women’s bags gradually become more beautiful.
A very important improvement is the slits on the dress. Thanks to these slits, the ancient women were able to use the bag properly without having to remove any layers of their body.
A very important improvement is the slits on the dress.
The size of the bag is also extremely diverse, able to fit anything from keys to large cakes.
Men’s pockets, meanwhile, remained unchanged, extremely useful from the start.
Women’s dresses at this time gradually changed according to fashion trends, simple, hugging, thinner and no longer suitable for an inner sewn pocket.
Moreover, as the bags become more and more beautifully decorated and sophisticated, why not bring them out?
By the 19th century, inner bags were no longer popular, so hand bags were born.
Thus the hand bag was born. They gradually became an indispensable thing in the hands of women at that time when going out. Their size is also gradually smaller, not diverse. Simply because you can’t always carry a bag as big as a rice bag around, what’s “trendy” anymore.
Because the size of the bags was very small, could not hold too much money, so women in those days tended to leave all the money when going out to their men.
It is also a mirror reflecting the role of women at that time when they were very limited in their right to manage large assets such as money and land. They are supposed to stay at home to sew, sew, and drink tea.
The late 1800s was a time when women rose up strongly, fought and demanded equality for themselves.
They show it from the dress when new dresses always have to be asked for extra pockets to prove themselves as an independent woman.
At the beginning of the 20th century, women’s dresses and clothes were always required to have extra pockets.
Further, in the early 1900s, the big question often asked was “Do women wear pants like men?”.
Two world wars occurred that dragged almost all men to the battlefield, that’s when women asserted their place. They started going to work, wearing work clothes – of course, bags that did their job.
The war ended, the status of nations changed, and so did the position of women. Although the men have returned, women have also had a bit of a voice of their own in many areas.
At the end of the 20th century, pants pockets were gradually phased out.
However, a paradox occurs, the pants are still loved, only they are increasingly hugging the woman’s body with the trend started by Hollywood stars. They are supposed to enhance a woman’s beauty and curves from the hips down, and the most radical way to do this is… get rid of the pockets.
In addition, the explosion in the field of fashion design at this time comes with an extremely diverse range of accessories. One of them is expensive handbags. Using them to keep things (keep) has become a trend among women.
“Men have pockets to keep their things, women have pockets just for decoration” – Christian Dior, 1954
Although we have gone part of the 21st century, we still do not have a definitive answer as to whether women’s pants are really necessary and how much is enough. Women want the appearance of a handy bag on jeans, on dresses, on shirts and even coats?
Bags, of course, have appeared more often, instead of fake bags that are only decorative.
Bags, of course, have appeared more often, instead of fake bags that are only decorative, but they still seem to have not kept up with the times, when women have more and more big things. need to carry with you (not in your bag), such as… iPhone. iPhone is often difficult, let alone iPhone plus…
Looking back at the whole history of the bag, we can somehow see that what women ask for is sometimes not just a bag, but also fairness to men and convenience.
However, it seems that fashion designers do not have the same view, or maybe, they have not yet found a way to reconcile the beauty of women with convenience.
In another development, men’s pants pockets have barely changed in 400 years…