# What Is It With Women And Back Pocket Cellphone Storage Lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090 "2017-10-16T22:54:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/141 "2019-11-04T03:55:10Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Believe me, women lament the lack of usable pockets in our clothes more than men wonder why we put up with it. We can’t BUY clothes with decent pockets to vote with our wallets if clothing manufacturers refuse to OFFER those items for sale. Sure, but it is such an obvious market vacuum that you have to wonder why no one is taking advantage of it. At the very least, you’d expect it as a Shark Tank contestant or GoFundMe project. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/142 "2019-11-04T16:00:41Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Women’s clothes are made with inadequate pockets. I guess it’s supposed to be slimming, or show off your figure. But it’s effectively impossible for a person with female-shaped hips to buy pants that both fit and have front pockets that hold today’s cell phones. With my curves, I’d need thigh pockets for that, a la cargo pants. Or jeans whose waist went all the way up to right below the boobs, I guess. I’ve had to start carrying purses so I can carry the phone somewhere else than inside my waistband. Back in the '80s and '90s I was actually able to buy trousers which fit properly and had decent pockets, but they still wouldn’t have been able to hold a wallet or a cellphone. If they were jeans my ID went into one front pocket, carefully pushed down so it would be fully below the joint line; loose money into the other front pocket. For non-denim trousers I only ever had one pair whose pockets were deep enough that stuff didn’t fall off easily (damn vertical openings) and I got those Moschinos copied time and again for twenty years. Getting trousers that fit me modified with pockets that can hold stuff, or alternatively buying trousers that don’t fit and modifying them to fit me, means I end up paying the seamstress two or three times as much as I paid for the trousers. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/143 "2019-11-04T16:22:09Z")
“pockets” isn’t a standard item at my tailor, and I pay a different amount every time i have pants modified. I’ve paid between $15 and $40 for two front pockets deepened. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/144 "2019-11-04T16:40:48Z")
If a woman has a back pocket she’s lucky. I’m a dude but I put my cell in my back pocket all the time while standing/walking because it’s the cleanest and most convenient place. Front pockets don’t work nearly as well because of my leg bending. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/145 "2019-11-04T20:33:02Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Please shut up. I’m not a pig. I confessed to wording the OP in a way that upon further review could be considered offensive. > > I have NEVER cat-called or rudely remarked to a woman in any situation. FFS, I don’t even leer when I check them out. It’s fucking normal male behavior to look at women from every angle. And I NEVER said it was about ME!!! > :rolleyes: > > This is a true statement. And I never ogle, I cast sideways glances for the sake of politeness and propriety. > > Jeez, some of you are just a bunch of fucking prudes. Yes some of us prudes are into fucking, but you don’t think that do you? You made a dumbass ignorant statement thinking you were being cheeky and cute and got put out because some of the prudes didn’t smile or get your joke so the prudes have no sense of humor and should lighten up. No it’s not fucking normal to run your gaze over any woman you choose at every angle whenever you like. FFS your being a creep. Guess I might see your fucking face in the toilet when I drop trou and lose my phone in the drink right, jsut normal male behavior, fucking frotterer ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/146 "2019-11-04T21:46:22Z")
Another prude (who’s been known to fuck) chiming in… I keep an iPhone SE in my back pocket. That thing is svelte… the size of an old iPhone 3 or 4. One more reason I wouldn’t go with the maxi-phones they’re trying to sell me. Since this got bumped from 2years ago, what’s bothering me these days is women carrying their phone in their bra. Their. Bra. I saw two last weekend. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/147 "2019-11-04T22:21:33Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Is it a modern phenomenon? Cell phones in general are, and phones thin enough to back pocket are, but putting bulky things in the back pocket? > > I clearly remember from a very young age being completely confused by the great number of people I saw with back pocket wallets. Even ignoring the theft potential, how do you sit? Male here (and vaguely disgusted by the idea that everything women do MUST be for the purpose of arousing me). For several years I carried an inch-thick wallet in my back pocket. I accomplished this via wearing non-painted-on pants, and sitting on them isn’t a problem - seated butts have a bottom part and a back part and the pockets end up on the back and thus not the part you’re sitting on. Thus it wasn’t at all uncomfortable, and the only reason I stopped carrying my wallet there was because of pickpocket potential. Nowadays I carry it in my front pocket, which (being jeans) floats loosely and ends up on the side of my leg while sitting. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/148 "2019-11-05T01:59:29Z")
> [@digs](#): > > …, what’s bothering me these days is women carrying their phone in their bra. > > Their. Bra. I saw two last weekend. I sometimes do that at home. When I go out I wear pockets, but I don’t always have pockets just lazing around the house. It works pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090/149 "2019-11-05T15:08:07Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > T but…men don’t do this, I mean, at ALL. I do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-women-and-back-pocket-cellphone-storage-lately/799090.md?page=7)