Well, Kraft has saved dinner.

Casper is at a birthday party, and mr. flea was talking to the parents, and they moved here last July from Colorado so he could take a job as a VP at a major communications company. And then 2 months ago the company got bought out and the entire executive team was laid off. Man, I would be so pissed off. (They seem to be doing okay, since, you know, VP salary, but move a family across the country to get laid off 9 months later? GRRR!)

Cashmere: the whole Victorian vibrator thing was much less common than the movie (and the play) lead us to believe. [link]

It is impossible to say with any definiteness that something never occurred, but it is possible to argue that this particular treatment for 'hysteria' was rare and fell outside mainstream accepted medical practice in Victorian England. Things may have been different in North America.

ita, I am not Jillian, but I am a pocket crusader. There are so many dresses and skirts where pockets would be so easy, and yet they aren't added. Probably because it costs more. And we are addicted to cheap clothes, and if there isn't a demand, makers will go for profit over functionality. Sad, but one of the reasons I took the sewing class!

Flea, btdt and it was epically annoying.

Sad, but one of the reasons I took the sewing class!

I really need to spend a weekend and just add pockets to all my skirts. It's not like I don't have the capability, I'm just lazy. And I have "more exciting" sewing projects to do. But, pockets!

ita, I am not Jillian, but I am a pocket crusader.

I love that the polka-dotted eShakti dress I bought has pockets. Big ones, too!

Part of the reason I am really getting into wearing riding-style jackets (British hunt -style ones) is that they have POCKETS.

But since I'm committed to carrying a purse anyway, I might as well lug it along?

I guess it's different for me, since, yeah I do want either or both of my Nook and my tablet. I'd rather have my chequebook than not.

Very few of my clothes (and I wear nowhere as much in the way of full skirts as you do) have anywhere to put a pocket big enough to any purse I've seen my mother carry, for instance.

I consider the bag I carry to be 75% of the time superior than any pocket option I've seen my father wear, for instance. I'm not going to use breast pockets on any shirt or blouse, and some breast pockets of jackets might be big enough, but I don't want a big flat thing in them, or a heavily weighted number of things. Keys, phone, money clip--front pocket folds over when I sit--no good for phone, keys jab me, coins bounce my leg when I walk.

I have maybe 15-20 percent of clothes that I could add a useful pocket to, and for that incidence, I don't care, because there's no point switching the bag out for that when I can just have everything in one place for most outfits. Most of the time my bag is my more convenient option.

I mean, seriously, where does the stuff I moisturise my hands with go? And my lips? MANDATORY.

Sports injuries. There was some study years ago based on Armed Forces that tried to total up the extra costs from female soldiers and found that volleyball injuries were among the highest categories of expenses.

There's a Top Gun joke in there somewhere, I just can't find it. Talk to me, Goose.

flea something like that happened at my Dad's old company.

They spent a year (I think) recruiting, hiring, and training several employees who moved across country for the job.

Then they laid them all off. Dad said he tried to warn them that the work would pick up again rather quickly, but they laid off the employees.

About a year later - work picks up again, and they go looking to rehire for the same positions they had laid off.