# 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](https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2016/10/colonial-pockets-and-haversacks-by.html)**
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> How did women and men carry money, keys, and other personal items in the 18th century? It's a question that came to me recently as I shoppe...

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