3. Pockets
Articles of Interest
Avery Trufelman
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Womenswear is littered with fake pockets that don’t open, or shallow pockets that can hardly hold more than a paperclip. If women’s clothes have pockets at all, they are often smaller and just fit less than men’s pockets do. And when we talk about pockets, we are talking about who has access to the tools they need. Who can walk through the world comfortably and securely?
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear, created by Avery Trufelman; a six-part series within* 99% Invisible*, looking at clothing.
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| 0:50.4 | I had never worn a dress before. I'm sure it was like slightly graceless as like all the things I did at the time seem to have been |
| 0:57.3 | I met peers on our very first week in college. It must have been day |
| 1:02.7 | One or two. It was really early. We went to a super PC liberal arts school |
| 1:07.8 | And so our freshman mixer was a cross-dressing dance which is such an outdated term now |
| 1:13.2 | But whatever that's what it was called. I think all they told us was you should wear clothes of the opposite gender |
| 1:18.7 | They probably said it in a way that's slightly more you know literate in the differences between gender and biological sex |
| 1:24.2 | And what I just said it was a strange way to make first impressions on each other |
| 1:28.9 | Not because we were scared of wearing dresses or backwards baseball caps or whatever we wore that night |
| 1:34.4 | It was because for many of us we had to borrow clothes from the other people in our hall |
| 1:39.3 | It was weirdly intimate peers and I complete strangers |
| 1:43.9 | swapped outfits |
| 1:45.4 | Your tall and I'm tall and I think that you're probably the only person in the hall if not the building whose clothes would have fit me |
| 1:51.4 | I remember I loaned peers a pink swirly patterned mini dress from the 60s that I had bought from a thrift store |
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