dem pocketses
Feb. 28th, 2016 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwGot a nice chunk of petticoat painted today, although it was remarkably springlike today so I did spend some time outside enjoying the weather! Didn't take a picture of said painting because it looks the same as the picture from yesterday...just more so, haha.
Unrelated, I saw this article linked in a couple places on FB, and it made me laugh and shake my head. If you're going to snark about "sexist pockets" you should probably actually read the things you cite as sources on the history of pockets. Just an idea.
I think my favorite was this bit, about pockets in the 18th century: "If you were a woman of money (and if you had pockets, you probably were)..." Ah yes, those expensive-ass pockets. *nods sagely*
And a close second was this gem about 17th-century pockets: "A woman's makeshift pocket was hung under her dress but over the under-petticoat, making it logistically difficult to access unless she was nearly nude." ...what?? To be fair, the I-can't-find-my-pockets-dance would have been even funnier it that were the case...
Unrelated, I saw this article linked in a couple places on FB, and it made me laugh and shake my head. If you're going to snark about "sexist pockets" you should probably actually read the things you cite as sources on the history of pockets. Just an idea.
I think my favorite was this bit, about pockets in the 18th century: "If you were a woman of money (and if you had pockets, you probably were)..." Ah yes, those expensive-ass pockets. *nods sagely*
And a close second was this gem about 17th-century pockets: "A woman's makeshift pocket was hung under her dress but over the under-petticoat, making it logistically difficult to access unless she was nearly nude." ...what?? To be fair, the I-can't-find-my-pockets-dance would have been even funnier it that were the case...
