Regency Culture and Society: A Woman in Want of Pockets

Gentle readers, you are probably already aware of the deep gender divide around pockets.  If you are not, check out this link for a historical primer: https://mic.com/articles/133948/the-weird-complicated-sexist-history-of-pockets#.7Oczs9MUY

This was not something people weren’t aware of or talking about in the Regency era (or thereabouts).  I stumbled upon this blurb in the November 1818 issue of La Belle Assemblee, and thought I would share as it sheds light on women, in desperate need of pockets, even then…and a defense of pockets:

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