My friend's mom in Seattle totally changed how I see pockets | Fashion Design Ideas

Jessica Brown · 2026-03-30T09:20:04.659241+00:00

I was helping her carry groceries and she said, 'Every dress I own needs a pocket big enough for my phone and keys... it's a design failure if it doesn't.' That was 3 months ago, and now I sketch every skirt or dress with at least one real pocket. Has anyone else had a simple comment completely shift their design approach?

bailey.xena6mo ago

Pockets are a basic human right, not a design feature.

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elliotburns5mo ago

Wait, didn't @bailey.xena say pockets are a basic human right? That kinda changed my thinking too. I used to just throw on fake pocket flaps for the look, but now I get why that's useless.

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max4936mo ago

My early designs treated pockets as just decoration, which seems silly now. Hearing a friend's mom call it a design failure really stuck with me. She was totally right, it's about function for the person wearing it. I had to unlearn that fashion-first mindset. Now I see a pocket as a basic need, like a zipper or a hem.

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