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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Add me to the chorus of women disgusted with the lack of pockets in womens' clothes! It's like a conspiracy to deprive women of economic equality on the most basic level.
I search for women's pants that are both tall enough and have pockets, but I end up buying mens' pants a lot. I put a box pleat on either side of the back middle belt loop and that takes a lot of the extra out of the waist. The kind of pants (or shorts; in Tennessee I wear shorts six months out of the year) with lots of pockets aren't supposed to fit tightly anyway, so it doesn't matter too much if it's baggy.
The kind of pants that are really great? BDU ("battle dress uniform") pants. They're tough, they're comfortable, they have little tabs at each side of the waist to cinch them in to fit, and they have pockets you could carry a squirrel colony in. Add the BDU jacket and you could carry 2 squirrel colonies at war with each other, complete with a hospital for each side. Right now I just have camouflage ones I got from a friend in the reserves (his unit went to a pixelated pattern and he had to get rid of *all* his uniforms) and the camo means there's a lot of places they're just too informal to wear. I have my eye on some blue ones that you can get on the internet, though.
I almost never carry a purse. I grew up considering girly things to be opposed to all things self-sufficient, competent and self-respecting. As I have gotten older I have realized I was wrong about this, but a seminar on safety convinced me that I don't want to be vulnerable to purse snatching (which is often quite violent) and the easiest way to do that was to keep my stuff in my pockets.
Right this minute I have my iPod (left front), my keys and change (right front), my phone (right back), and my wallet (holds bills, folds in thirds) (left back.) This is basically my minimum leave-the-house gear. (The iPod has books on it in case I have to wait somewhere. It is also my PDA equivalent.)
If I have a cargo pocket (just jeans right now, alas) I often carry a Leatherman Wave--but my K2 needs a backpack, really, and when I carry a pack, I often carry other stuff as well.
I own 2 purses I inherited when my mother died. For those times I have to be *so* formal that neither a backpack nor a briefcase will do. Fortunately that's not often.
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the Navy went to a blue on blue on black on grey on blue cammo sometime last year. first time I saw it I thought it was a joke, then when I realized it wasn't I thought "great! just MAKE sure they stay lost at sea!" looked pretty bizarre to my OD trained Army eye
