Pocket origins: "carried close & secret" -- Pocket proliferation: housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen" -- Pocket attitudes: "but what do your hands do in your pocket?" -- Pocket sexism: "why we oppose pockets for women" -- Pocket inventories: "not a penny was there in it" -- Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value" -- Pocket utopias: dreaming of a pocketless world.
Summary:
"A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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