# Women like pockets, but fashionable dresses, etc, don't have them, why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-like-pockets-but-fashionable-dresses-etc-dont-have-them-why/968277 "2022-07-20T19:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-like-pockets-but-fashionable-dresses-etc-dont-have-them-why/968277/2 "2022-07-20T20:08:04Z")
As part of the tangent in the earlier thread, @BippityBoppityBoo said: > [@Police response during mass shooting event {Not Gun Control, 2nd Amendment or Politics}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-response-during-mass-shooting-event-not-gun-control-2nd-amendment-or-politics/965165/836): > > I do because there isn’t choice usually. Side by side, with pockets would win every time. Women are not offered functional pockets all that often. That’s a major reason why scrubs for nurses dominates the uniform world, we suddenly had pockets. Cargo scrub pants just made the deal even sweeter. If women only ever chose functional clothes with pockets regardless of style preference, all women’s clothes would have pockets. That’s not what women choose to do. I’m not disparaging women’s choices. Women in society are rewarded for looking stylish so they want stylish clothes. Baggy pocketed clothes aren’t stylish and would be less stylish with key and cell phone lumps. So women don’t generally choose them and designers don’t generally make them. Designers could offer clothes both with and without pockets but then they would be making twice as many variants for the same number of sales. They know they are better off making two differently styled garments neither offering pockets to attract more attention and sales. Worse yet (from the designers’ perspective) if the pocketed versions became popular with unfashionable people, they would be attracting the buyers they least want - those focused on practicality who probably aren’t willing to pay the most and turning off buyers who are fashionably inclined and more influential on their peers… Designers understandably want their clothes to look good and attract attention first. The no-pockets versions will do that better so that’s what they offer. No one buys scrubs for style and I’m glad if practicality has won out there. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-like-pockets-but-fashionable-dresses-etc-dont-have-them-why/968277)._