Women like pockets, but fashionable dresses, etc, don't have them, why?

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I believe in one of the Star Trek novels, Scotty complains that their uniforms don’t have pockets.

During the search for the following, I received a LARGE number of hits “how to add pockets to a dress”:

Colonial Pockets and Haversacks by Cynthia Howerter