Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I have nothing against pockets in women's formalwear, but I don't think either of them look better resting with their hands in their pockets than they would with them out.
Drawing attention to the pockets is nifty, but once I know they're there, they don't need to have hands jammed away.
totally disagree.
I also don't see jaunty as a women's formal thing. Sassy sure (welcome to the semantic hairlines of my brain), but jaunty? No, that's for another occasion. And for guys it's borderline.
George Clooney is more than welcome to stick his hands in the pockets of his suit, but I don't think it jaunty in the least. And it's certainly not a photo op pose. It's for when he's in the stairwell.
I'm with JZ, I like 'em.
Formal gowns should not have pockets.
All clothing should have pockets. Pockets with Kleenex in them. They should also have some sort of alarm that goes off when I start to wash them with the Kleenex still inside.
Don't get me wrong; I looooove pockets in skirts. Just not formal dresses/skirts. Because....they're *formal.*
Teppy and ita -- so beautiful, so brilliant, yet so completely wrong in the lack of pocket love.
so completely wrong in the lack of pocket love
Condemn me if you must, but accuracy requires you to cite my lack of pocket love.
I must admit to liking the pockets for the jaunty and the sassy (my brain does not share ita's semantic hairlines). It gives a different feel to the formal that I really like.
Okay, yes, I stand corrected. You don't not love the pocket, you merely wish to deny women in formalwear their God-given right to look jaunty and insouciant.
It is entirely my intent to flame this into a Buffista battle to stand alongside prescriptivist/descriptionist, Atkins, and the composition of chili.