Willow ,'Beneath You'
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 am however wearing a dress today, which seems to be confusing a lot of people.
The one dress I wear to work is maroon velvet with no place for pockets. The insouciance must come from the footwear. Or the fact that I'm almost head-to-toe in velvet, I suppose.
I rather like the pockets, and I imagine it would be nice to have a place to tuck some necessities without having to carry a purse. I think they just have to be careful with the placement and how they end up sticking their hands in them.
I also remember reading - years and years ago - something by, I believe, Samuel R. Delaney in which a woman complained that in having her rank (royal to commoner?) reduced meant she could no longer have pockets in her clothes.
Just survived the weird focus group/outside review/ whatever meeting.
I think all the issues brought up can be summed tidily as the Management is the problem
Alternatively, Bureaucracy is teh SUCK.
Oh, with a side of Everyone hates the CIO.
It was interesting.
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.
I love the pocket! In non-formal wear, in kangaroos, Hot Pockets, Lean Pockets, pocket doors -- the pocket is a beautiful and convenient thing!
But formalwear! It's....*formal*!
It is entirely my intent to flame this into a Buffista battle to stand alongside prescriptivist/descriptionist, Atkins, and the composition of chili.
Bring it, pocket hoor!!!
It's not fair to have the kerfuffle without erinaceous.
in what crazy world does formal exclude pockets?
oh right, noodles in chili.
Pockets? What are these pocket things you people are speaking of?
... okay, even though my wardrobe is almost completely devoid of pockets, I think pockets built into the side seams of full skirts (or dresses with full skirts) is a Good Idea. Far more elegant than sticking your lipstick & ID down the front of your corset.
Far more elegant than sticking your lipstick & ID down the front of your corset.
Or affixing it to a headband.
oh right, noodles in chili.
Noodles UNDER chili. The difference is subtle, yet important. Like pockets in formal gowns.
it's subtley wrong.