Jess Driscoll - The Magic of Pockets: Why Your Clothes Dont Have Good Pockets and How to Fix That

MAgic of pockets

Why Your Clothes Dont Have Good Pockets, and How to Fix That

2022 Jess Driscoll

This edition Microcosm Publishing 2022

First edition - 3,000 copies - October 22, 2022

eBook ISBN 9781648411823

This is Microcosm #611

Edited by Elly Blue

Cover by Lindsey Cleworth

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Contents

1. preface

2. a short history

3: Sewing Fundamentals

4: Hand-sewn Patch Pocket

Running Stitch

Back Stitch

5: Machine-sewn Patch Pocket

6: The Best Patch Pocket

Pocket Flap

Front Pants Pockets

Hoodie Pocket

7: Apron Pocket

Caf Apron

8: Inside Pocket

Fake Pockets

9: Tie-on Pocket

10: Pouch Pockets

Belt Pouch

Pochette

Belt Loop Pocket

11: Conclusion

Sources and further Reading

About the author

a short

history

sewing

fundamentals

Hand-sewn

Patch Pocket

machine-Sewn

Patch pocket

The best

Patch pocket

Apron

pocket

Inside

pocket

Tie-on

pocket

pouch

pockets

Sources and

Further Reading

Books

The Pocket: A Hidden History of Womens Lives , 1660-1900 by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson

Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing: Step by Step Techniques for Making Clothes and Home Accessories

Martha Stewarts Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts: Basic Techniques for Sewing, Applique, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing

Articles

Why Womens Pockets Are Useless: A History by Ariana Tobin marketplace.org/2014/09/18/tech/why-womens-pockets-are-useless-history/

The Power of a Pocket by Paul Johnson spectator.co.uk/article/the-power-of-a-pocket

Pockets by Jan Diehm and Amber Thomas pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

Women Embrace Menswear (WWD 100 issue 11/01/2010) by Venessa Lau wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/moment-11-women-embrace-menswear-3344600/

Form and Deformity: The Trouble with Victorian Pockets by Christopher Todd Matthews jstor.org/stable/10.2979/vic.2010.52.4.561?seq=1

11. CONCLUSION

About the

Author

Jess Driscoll is a writer and teacher who has been blogging since 2001. She lives on Semiahmoo land in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC. When shes not sewing, shes baking. When shes not baking, shes hiking. Through it all, she makes zines. This is her first published book of nonfiction. Follow the author at jessdriscoll.com.

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