Nevermind that the Women of America continue to permit clothing makers to size trousers in goofy ways that have nada to do with the variety of actual body shapes we come in.
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Nevermind that the WOA continue to meekly herd up, baaaaaaaaa, to force their magnificent feet into weird inverted V’s and cripple their heels on 4-inch steel rods.
Nevermind that the WOA fail to use their consumer might to bring style – and sanity – to the business of clothing and shoeing us.
Nevermind all that.
It’s the no-pockets thing that really push me over the edge.
Come on WOA – let’s get real. Who among us doesn’t long for a pocket for lunch money?
Tissue during allergy season? Someplace to put our hands?
We all know that a well-cut pair of trousers can include on-seam pockets without adding bulk in the wrong places.
Instead, WOA like me have to scour and search for the one pair of pants in 100,000 that both fit and have pockets.
And for all the rest of the trousers we buy?
We have to search and search for that special tailor, who, for a reasonable sum, will add well-crafted pockets to the pairs of pants we have been able to find that are priced right and fit.
As a Woman of Certain Age who grew up in the days when WOA were granted the cultural right to wear trousers (it was wartime and WOA were replacing men on the factory floors), I can recall that our trousers came with well-tailored pockets too.
Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t that clothing makers were doing us any favors. That was simply the way trousers had been made for men.
How do we assert the right to have trousers that fit – and have pockets?
Can you imagine the Men of America putting up with this?
Donna Rohrer