Women's Pockets Weren't Always a Complete Disgrace | A Brief History: England, 15th c - 21st c

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SOURCES:
--Braun, Melanie; Costigliolo, Luca; North, Susan; Thornton, Claire; Tiramani, Jenny. '17th Century Men's Dress Patterns: 1600-1630'. 2016. Thames & Hudson, London. Print.
--Burman, Barbara and Fennetaux, Ariane. "The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives." 2019, Yale University Press. Print.
--Maître du cardinal de Bourbon. "Vie et miracles de monseigneur saint Louis ou Livre des faits de monseigneur saint Louis". 1480 - 1488. BnF Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000784s/f1.double.r= Le Livre.shift
--Tiramani, Jenny; Costigliolo, Luca; Passot, Sébastien; Lucas, Armelle; Pietsch, Johannes. "Patterns of Fashion 5: The content, cut, construction and context of bodies, stays, hoops and rumps c. 1595 - 1795". London, 2018. Print.
---The Old Bailey Proceedings https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/forms/formMain.jsp (see citations for individual cases referenced)

Special thanks to Melissa P for sharing her extant pocket database with me; to @Abby Cox for peer review and supplemental extant pocket footage; to @Pinsent Tailoring for supplemental waistcoat pocket footage.

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0:00 Introduction
1:10 The (very very slow) Development of Pockets
3:16 The Infinite Styles and Shapes of the Tie-On Pocket
4:49 A Deduction Exercise: How Pockets Reveal People
6:44 The Golden Age of Pocketry: 18th Century Pocket Hoops
8:43 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (Regency Edition)
10:17 Sewn-in Pockets and the Rise of Pocket Inequality
13:47 No, Pockets Were Not Displaced by Handbags (21st Century Edition).
16:17 A Very Special Giveaway From Yale University Press :)

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